03 · Cybersecurity
03 · Cybersecurity
Perimeters before identity. Identity before secrets . Secrets before keys.
Cloud-native security, compliance posture, and incident response. The order of operations is non-negotiable — and compliance follows the architecture, not the other way around.
03a · Capability map
- Cloud-native security architecture
- VPC-SC perimeters, conditional IAM, deny policies, tag-based exceptions, audit-log routing. Cloud Armor at L7, IAP for app-level identity, KMS for keys. Defense in depth that compiles to Terraform.
- Identity & Zero Trust
- Workload Identity Federation over service-account keys. Conditional access on device, location, and posture. Authentication and authorization measurable for every request. Identity is the perimeter; we treat it that way.
- AI & data security
- Protect the model and the data behind it. CMEK on Vertex AI endpoints, VPC-SC around AI services, DLP on training and inference flows, model-access audited from logs. Pre-empt the new attack surface — prompt injection, training-data poisoning, model exfiltration — before it hits production.
- DevSecOps & supply chain
- Mature the SDLC with security built in: SAST, DAST, SBOM generation, dependency and secret scanning. Binary Authorization, signed images, SLSA attestations. The pipeline is part of the perimeter.
- Detection & incident response
- Runbooks that work at 2am with the senior engineer who wrote them. Detection at the audit-log layer; alerts tuned to operator burden, not vendor SLAs. Tabletop exercises, blast-radius reviews, after-action reports that actually get implemented.
- Compliance — workshops, advisory, gap, launch
- FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC 1, SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CMMC, FISMA. Four engagement shapes: workshops educate stakeholders and engineers; advisory analyzes existing controls and produces a roadmap; gap assessment maps current state against the framework; launch is the full readiness package — assessment, workshops, remediation plan. Controls mapped to GCP primitives (Cloud KMS, Secret Manager, Confidential Computing, Workload Identity) and evidenced from logs, not screenshots.
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03b · Compliance language
- What we commit to
- Mapping controls to architecture, evidencing them from telemetry, and routing exceptions through code — not tickets.
- What we don't claim
- Cloud Syndicate is not FedRAMP-authorized. EverForge — our managed-services arm — is pursuing FedRAMP Moderate authorization.
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