

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.
