The Cloud Security Alliance creates a dedicated nonprofit to govern autonomous AI agent ecosystems through risk intelligence and certification.
NEWS BRIEF
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) this week announced CSAI, a dedicated 501(c)3 nonprofit foundation focused exclusively on artificial intelligence (AI) security and safety. CSAI's mission is to govern autonomous agent ecosystems through risk intelligence, certification, and executive trust programs. As enterprises move from experimental AI pilots to autonomous, agent-driven transformation of their businesses, it's important to shift the risk surface from models alone to complex agent ecosystems.
CSAI's goal is to secure the "agentic control plane," which covers the identity, authorization, orchestration, runtime behavior, and trust assurance for autonomous AI agent ecosystems. To do so, CSAI will operate six programs: an AI Risk Observatory for threat intelligence and CVE tracking specific to agentic AI; best practices guidance covering identity-first controls, runtime authorization and privilege governance for nonhuman actors; education and credentialing, including three new Trusted AI Safety Expert (TAISE) certification tracks; a CxO collaboration program for enterprise security executives; and a global assurance program.
"The agentic era demands a new kind of security infrastructure — one that governs not just what AI models can do, but how autonomous agents identify themselves, what they're authorized to do, and how we can trust their behavior at scale," said Jim Reavis, CEO and co-founder, Cloud Security Alliance, in a statement.
"Strong technical collaboration with organizations like CoSAI is essential to turning principles into practice," Reavis stated. "As we build out the agentic control plane, alignment with a standards organization like CoSAI ensures that what we develop is interoperable, scalable, and globally relevant."
NEWS BRIEF
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) this week announced CSAI, a dedicated 501(c)3 nonprofit foundation focused exclusively on artificial intelligence (AI) security and safety. CSAI's mission is to govern autonomous agent ecosystems through risk intelligence, certification, and executive trust programs. As enterprises move from experimental AI pilots to autonomous, agent-driven transformation of their businesses, it's important to shift the risk surface from models alone to complex agent ecosystems.
CSAI's goal is to secure the "agentic control plane," which covers the identity, authorization, orchestration, runtime behavior, and trust assurance for autonomous AI agent ecosystems. To do so, CSAI will operate six programs: an AI Risk Observatory for threat intelligence and CVE tracking specific to agentic AI; best practices guidance covering identity-first controls, runtime authorization and privilege governance for nonhuman actors; education and credentialing, including three new Trusted AI Safety Expert (TAISE) certification tracks; a CxO collaboration program for enterprise security executives; and a global assurance program.
"The agentic era demands a new kind of security infrastructure — one that governs not just what AI models can do, but how autonomous agents identify themselves, what they're authorized to do, and how we can trust their behavior at scale," said Jim Reavis, CEO and co-founder, Cloud Security Alliance, in a statement.
- The AI Risk Observatory will provide continuous monitoring and threat intelligence for agentic AI systems, including observability of in-the-wild agentic activity across OpenClaw and MCP server ecosystems, operation of a next-generation CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) scoped on agentic AI, and real-time telemetry with structured risk identifiers.
- The Agentic Best Practices program will deliver full life cycle guidance for secure agentic implementation, covering identity-first controls for nonhuman actors, runtime authorization and privilege governance, agent taxonomy and profiling standards, secure agentic transactions and payments, and an open source tool repository.
- Education, credentialing and awareness initiatives will focus on global workforce development through the Agentic AI Summit Series and expansion of the TAISE certification program into three new tracks: TAISE CxO for executive leaders, TAISE Agentic for security practitioners, and TAISE Compass for high school students as part of the White House Task Force for AI Education.
- The CxOtrust for Agentic AI program will provide an executive collaboration platform offering the "Voice of the Enterprise Customer" to AI program activities through monthly briefings, private CISO/CIO/CAIO roundtables, board-ready risk narratives, and secure enterprise adoption guidelines.
- Global Assurance & Trust will expand the STAR for AI assurance program based on the AI Controls Matrix plus ISO 42001, ISO 27001, and SOC 2, supported by a global ecosystem of leading audit and certification bodies.
"Strong technical collaboration with organizations like CoSAI is essential to turning principles into practice," Reavis stated. "As we build out the agentic control plane, alignment with a standards organization like CoSAI ensures that what we develop is interoperable, scalable, and globally relevant."