The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has announced the launch of the AI Resilience Center of Excellence as part of the CSAI Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to AI security and safety. The vendor-neutral, community-driven initiative is designed to help enterprises and public sector organizations protect, monitor, contain, and recover data and systems in the age of AI agents and autonomous workflows.
CSA launches AI Resilience Center of Excellence under the CSAI Foundation to address AI-driven failures and security challenges.
Rubrik joins as Lead Founding Partner, contributing threat research, product telemetry, and executive thought leadership.
AI agents are already inside enterprises, but most security teams lack visibility into their actions and governance.
The Center will develop an AI Resilience Reference Architecture, board briefings, tabletop exercise kits, and guidance series.
AI-driven failures are expected to increase due to sophisticated threat actors and the complexity of enterprise AI deployment.
Organizations and senior leaders can join the Executive Advisory Committee by emailing airesiliencecoe@cloudsecurityalliance.org.
As organizations accelerate their adoption of AI and autonomous systems, they are entering an era where AI-driven failures will become increasingly common. These failures stem from both sophisticated threat actors targeting AI systems and the inherent complexity of deploying AI at enterprise scale. The AI Resilience Center of Excellence provides a vendor-neutral hub for developing observability frameworks supported by independent research and aggregated customer data. The initiative aims to turn AI resilience into a recognized operational discipline, equipping business and technology leaders with the confidence to adopt and govern AI responsibly.
Rubrik, the Security and AI Operations Company, has committed to the CSAI Foundation as the Lead Founding Partner for the AI Resilience Center of Excellence. Rubrik brings a unique combination of independent threat research via its Rubrik Zero Labs, product telemetry, and executive thought leadership to inform and guide the Center's ongoing research and governance. The company's participation reflects the growing recognition that AI agents are already operating inside enterprises, often without adequate security visibility or control.
Backed by practical guidance, research, executive education, and operational best practices, the Center will both feed and draw on other CSAI initiatives to advance AI resilience. The Center will be guided by an advisory committee of resilience experts, noted cybersecurity practitioners, and leaders addressing resilience issues at a board level. Key initiatives include the development of an AI Resilience Reference Architecture, board and executive briefings, tabletop exercise kits, and a guidance series for security and technology practitioners with maturity models and metrics. These resources are designed to help organizations anticipate failures, contain their impact, recover quickly, and learn from incidents.
The Center represents a community-driven effort to make resilience a practical discipline for the AI era. Organizations and senior leaders interested in serving on the Executive Advisory Committee are invited to express their interest by emailing airesiliencecoe@cloudsecurityalliance.org. CSA is also hosting the CxO Trust Summit on August 19, a free virtual event bringing together CISOs, CIOs, board directors, regulators, and senior risk leaders to address AI governance, regulatory requirements, and cloud and AI supply chain security.
"AI agents are already inside the enterprise, and most security teams can't tell you what those agents do," said Kavitha Mariappan, Chief Transformation Officer, Rubrik. "The AI Resilience Center of Excellence gives us a vendor-neutral hub for developing observability frameworks supported by independent research and aggregated customer data. Addressing AI resilience systematically now will help organizations recover more quickly and efficiently in the future."
"AI is rapidly changing not only how organizations operate, but also how essential services, economies, and societies function," said Jen Easterly, CEO of RSAC. "Organizations must be prepared to anticipate failures, contain their impact, recover quickly, and learn from what happened. But the challenge goes beyond enterprise resilience. As AI becomes embedded across critical infrastructure and public services, societies must also build the capacity to withstand disruption and adapt safely to transformational change. RSAC is proud to sponsor the AI Resilience Center of Excellence and support a community-driven effort to make resilience a practical discipline for the AI era."
"As organizations accelerate their adoption of AI and autonomous systems, they're also entering an era where AI-driven failures will become increasingly common, due to both sophisticated threat actors and the complexity of deploying AI at enterprise scale. Helping organizations solve these issues is why we founded the AI Resilience Center of Excellence," said Jim Reavis, CEO and co-founder, Cloud Security Alliance. "Rubrik will help shape the research, frameworks, and best practices needed to advance AI resilience. Together, we're building a community dedicated to helping organizations navigate the challenges of the next generation of AI-powered systems."
About Rubrik
Rubrik, the Security and AI Operations Company, leads at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. Rubrik Security Cloud delivers complete cyber resilience by securing, monitoring, and recovering data, identities, and workloads across clouds. Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes.
About CSAI Foundation
CSAI is a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation launched by the Cloud Security Alliance, dedicated exclusively to AI security and safety. With a 2026 mission of Securing the Agentic Control Plane, CSAI delivers integrated programs spanning risk intelligence, operational best practices, professional and agent certification, executive collaboration, global assurance, and forward-looking research to govern the autonomous AI economy.
About Cloud Security Alliance
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is the world's leading not-for-profit organization committed to awareness, practical implementation, and credentialing of forward-looking cybersecurity topics, including AI, cloud, and Zero Trust. In an era where digital transformation drives business success, CSA stands as the global authority ensuring organizations can operate securely while harnessing cutting-edge technology. Through the 501(c)3 CSAI Foundation, volunteer-driven research, globally-accepted standards, and award-winning vendor-neutral education programs that unite varied associations, governments, chapters, and corporate members, CSA bridges the gap between innovation and pragmatic security execution.
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