Working Group
Privacy
The Privacy Working Group develops privacy-enhancing technologies and engineering best practices that protect sensitive data throughout its lifecycle, especially during processing.
Through research, experimentation, and standards development, the group promotes practical approaches for integrating strong privacy protections into modern cloud environments, development workflows, and data science practices. Its mission is to help organizations adopt high-assurance privacy controls, reduce risk and attack surfaces, and meet evolving regulatory and compliance expectations while enabling responsible and secure use of data.
Working Group Leadership
Josh Buker
Research Analyst, CSA
Ryan Gifford
Senior Research Analyst, CSA
Working Group Co-Chairs
Mark Bower
VP, Product Management at Anjuna
Mark Bower has two decades of experience at leading security companies in the U.S., Australia, U.K., and Germany. He is a noted expert in data protection, data privacy, and information risk reduction. Before joining Anjuna, where he owns product strategy for advanced confidential computing, he headed product and business strategy for Comforte AG, Voltage Security (acquired by HPE) and the Atalla HSM business at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. ...
Daniella Alpher
Lattica.ai
Daniella Alpher is an experienced tech marketer who specializes in strategy, branding and content marketing. Before focusing on marketing for cybersecurity and AI, she worked as a television producer at ABC News in New York, where she produced news segments for Good Morning America. Daniella has led marketing at CoolaData, Iguazio, DeepKeep, RevealSecurity and PeerSpot. She holds an MBA from INSEAD.
Joseph Wilson
Joseph Wilson is co-Chair for the Cloud Security Alliance's (CSA's) Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Working Group (WG), which was formed to address industrial deployment and adoption of FHE and to help the industry navigate this branch of Privacy Enhancing Technologies. He holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Leeds, and an MPhys in Experimental Physics from the University of York. He is currently Head of Strategic In...
Steve Foster
| Publications in Review | Open Until |
|---|---|
| SSCF Implementation Guidelines | Dec 25, 2025 |
| SSCF-CAIQ | Dec 25, 2025 |
| DLP and DSPM inHealthcare: AI-EnhancedSecurity and Privacy | Dec 26, 2025 |
| AICM to AIUC-1 Mapping | Dec 28, 2025 |
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.
Virtual Meetings
Attend our next meeting. You can just listen in to decide if this group is a good for you or you can choose to actively participate. During these calls we discuss current projects, and well as share ideas for new projects. This is a good way to meet the other members of the group. You can view all research meetings here.
Dec
17
CSA Privacy Working Group Meeting
Currently we meet every other Wednesday, 9am-10am Pacific Time.
If this time does not work well for you, please let us know. We are considering having a second time slot to accommodate the greatest number of folks possible.
Useful links:
- Zoom Meeting Link: https://csaurl.org/privacy-call
- CSA Public Slack: https://csaurl.org/csa-public-slack
- Working Group Slack Channel: #wg-privacy
Dec
31
CSA Privacy Working Group Meeting
Currently we meet every other Wednesday, 9am-10am Pacific Time.
If this time does not work well for you, please let us know. We are considering having a second time slot to accommodate the greatest number of folks possible.
Useful links:
- Zoom Meeting Link: https://csaurl.org/privacy-call
- CSA Public Slack: https://csaurl.org/csa-public-slack
- Working Group Slack Channel: #wg-privacy
Jan
14
CSA Privacy Working Group Meeting
Currently we meet every other Wednesday, 9am-10am Pacific Time.
If this time does not work well for you, please let us know. We are considering having a second time slot to accommodate the greatest number of folks possible.
Useful links:
- Zoom Meeting Link: https://csaurl.org/privacy-call
- CSA Public Slack: https://csaurl.org/csa-public-slack
- Working Group Slack Channel: #wg-privacy
Jan
28
CSA Privacy Working Group Meeting
Currently we meet every other Wednesday, 9am-10am Pacific Time.
If this time does not work well for you, please let us know. We are considering having a second time slot to accommodate the greatest number of folks possible.
Useful links:
- Zoom Meeting Link: https://csaurl.org/privacy-call
- CSA Public Slack: https://csaurl.org/csa-public-slack
- Working Group Slack Channel: #wg-privacy
Feb
11
CSA Privacy Working Group Meeting
Currently we meet every other Wednesday, 9am-10am Pacific Time.
If this time does not work well for you, please let us know. We are considering having a second time slot to accommodate the greatest number of folks possible.
Useful links:
- Zoom Meeting Link: https://csaurl.org/privacy-call
- CSA Public Slack: https://csaurl.org/csa-public-slack
- Working Group Slack Channel: #wg-privacy
Open Peer Reviews
Peer reviews allow security professionals from around the world to provide feedback on CSA research before it is published.