Architecture for Active Defense in the Cloud
A practical guide to the architecture model, guardrails, AI controls, and rollout planning.
- Use actors and zones to model cloud architecture across providers
- Define boundaries and baselines that map to provider-native controls across clouds
- Extend architecture to AI agents, inference, and tool access
- Turn guardrail gaps into rollout plans teams can trust
Format
PDF 5 Chapters
Companion
Live Webinar, July 21
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Five things you’ll walk away believing
Visibility isn’t the job anymore
CSPM and CNAPP solved finding risks. The work now is building defenses, and that work lives at the architecture layer.
Actors and zones are the building blocks
A shared layer above provider terms, built around actors, nested zones, inherited guardrails, and scoped exception paths.
Boundaries and baselines define enforceable guardrails
Boundaries govern what crosses zones. Baselines set the floor inside them. Each maps to provider-native controls underneath.
AI is an attribute, not a new category
Inference is a perimeter decision. Agents need tighter segmentation. Baselines hold when models act through tools and data.
Posture turns gaps into plans
Compare required guardrails to installed controls, then fold new accounts, services, and actors into rollout plans, without backlog.
Company webinar
Architecture for Active Defense: the live conversation
A moderated panel walking the architecture model, with a practitioner and an industry analyst. Live Q&A. 45 minutes.
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July 5 - 9:00 AM to 9:45 AM
ExCeL London