D02

Cloud Security Architecture & Resilience

About The Standard Domain

The Cloud Security Architecture & Resilience domain defines requirements for designing and operating secure cloud environments that protect data, applications, and services.

It covers secure cloud design, workload protection, cloud-native controls, governance and visibility, resilience engineering, and operational recovery to ensure confidentiality, integrity, availability, and business continuity.

Secure Cloud Design

Shared Responsibility

Workload Protection

Visibility & Governance

Resilience & Recovery

Why Adoption is Necessary

Architectural Clarity

Provides a structured blueprint for secure cloud architectures across services, workloads, accounts, subscriptions, projects, and environments.

Consistent Engineering Expectations

Aligns teams on proven patterns for cloud controls, workload protection, secure configuration, governance, and resilience capabilities.

Measurable Verification

Defines verifiable outcomes and continuous validation for cloud security controls, configuration posture, workload protection, and resilience.

Stronger Evidence

Supports traceability, audit readiness, and clear design evidence for cloud security intent, implementation, control operation, and review.

How The Standard Works

Requirements

Define the outcomes and capabilities cloud architectures must achieve to be secure, resilient, observable, and compliant.

Technical Specifications

Provide the architecture patterns, control expectations, and design specifications needed to meet cloud security and resilience requirements.

Verification and Validation

Define how to test, verify, and validate that cloud controls, workload protections, and resilience mechanisms operate as intended.

Implementation Guidance

Offer practical guidance, examples, patterns, and best practices to implement the standard effectively across real cloud environments.

Associate Standards Preview

Associate Standards Coming in Q3 2026

Detailed, implementation-level standards that support D01 will be published in Q3 2026 to help teams operationalize secure network architectures.

Built for Builders. Backed by Evidence.

D02 provides the architectural foundation for secure cloud environments, designed, engineered, and proven to protect services, workloads, data, and business continuity.