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Working Group

CAVEaT™

The Joint CSA-MITRE Cloud Adversarial, Vectors, and Threats (CAVEaT) Collaboration to develop, curate, and host a cloud specific threat model to assist Cloud Security practitioners with threat-based analysis.
Cloud Adversarial Vectors, Exploits, and Threats (CAVEaT™): An Emerging Threat Matrix for Industry Collaboration
Cloud Adversarial Vectors, Exploits, and Threats (CAVEaT™): An Emerging Threat Matrix for Industry Collaboration

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CSA and the MITRE Corporation have established the Cloud Adversarial, Vectors, Exploits, and Threats (CAVEaT) collaboration to develop, curate, and host cloud specific threat models to assist Cloud Security practitioners with threat-based analysis.

Working Group Leadership

Kurt Seifried
Kurt Seifried

Kurt Seifried

Chief Innovation Officer, CSA

For over two decades, Kurt has excelled in information security, starting with Windows and Linux, and advancing to cloud computing and AI. With a strong focus on AI security, privacy, and open source, Kurt brings extensive expertise to the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).

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Dr. Mari Spina
Dr. Mari Spina

Dr. Mari Spina

Sr. Principal Cybersecurity Engineer / Cloud Security Capability Leader at MITRE

Dr. Spina joined MITRE in 2014 and has been supporting a multitude of MITRE Federal sponsors including DHS, DoD and the IC in the area of Cloud Security. At MITRE, she is a Principle Cybersecurity Engineer, leads the Cloud Security Capability Area, and teaches Cloud Security for the MITRE Institute. She has also taught many Information Technology courses for the George Washington University schools of engineering and business. Before joini...

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Alex Kaluza
Alex Kaluza

Alex Kaluza

Research Analyst, CSA

Publications in ReviewOpen Until
Data Security within AI EnvironmentsAug 29, 2025
AICM Auditing GuidelinesSep 03, 2025
A Practitioner’s Guide to Post-Quantum CryptographySep 17, 2025
Cloud Threat Modeling 2025Sep 19, 2025
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Who can join?

Anyone can join a working group, whether you have years of experience or want to just participate as a fly on the wall.

What is the time commitment?

The time commitment for this group varies depending on the project. You can spend a 15 minutes helping review a publication that's nearly finished or help author a publication from start to finish.

Open Peer Reviews

Peer reviews allow security professionals from around the world to provide feedback on CSA research before it is published.

Learn how to participate in a peer review here.

Data Security within AI Environments

Open Until: 08/29/2025

 AI’s demand for large and diverse datasets introduces significant cybersecurity risks across the entire data lifecycl...

AICM Auditing Guidelines

Open Until: 09/03/2025

Auditing steps for each of the 243 controls of the AI Controls Matrix for internal or external auditors that are going to e...

A Practitioner’s Guide to Post-Quantum Cryptography

Open Until: 09/17/2025

As quantum computing advances, the threat it poses to classical cryptographic algorithms becomes increasingly urgent. This ...

Cloud Threat Modeling 2025

Open Until: 09/19/2025

The purpose of this document is to enable and encourage effective threat modeling for cloud applications, services, and sec...