Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ)

The Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ) is a series of yes/no questions provided by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) to help organizations evaluate how well a cloud provider follows best practices. The CAIQ questionnaire can be customized to suit the security requirements of each cloud customer and help potential customers build assessment processes for engaging with cloud providers.

The questionnaire was designed to address one of the leading concerns that companies have when moving to the cloud: the lack of transparency into what technologies and tactics cloud providers implement regarding data protection and risk management, and how they implement them. Organizations use the CAIQ as a first-level filter, after which potential cloud customers should ask individual vendors to provide more specific demonstrations on controls that matter most to the customer.

CAIQ questions are meant to be used in conjunction with the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) and the results are shared through a registry for security controls called the Security, Trust and Assurance Registry (STAR). The CSA STAR program consists of three levels of assurance (self-assessment, third-party certification and continuous auditing) based on:

the CAIQ
the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM)
the CSA Code of Conduct for GDPR

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