Cloud security architecture for the environments you run.
F Creative Studio 360 helps organisations in any country design, assess and operate security on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and the services around them.
The provider secures the platform. You secure what you build on it.
Cloud makes it easy to add accounts, storage and access. It also makes it easy to leave a store open or a role too powerful. That split is the shared responsibility model: the provider protects the infrastructure, and the customer protects configuration, identity, data and use.
F Creative Studio 360 designs that customer side for organisations in any country. Nothing in a client account is changed until that organisation has authorised the work.
- Responsibility is split with the provider
- The cloud company secures the platform. You secure what you put on it: accounts, configuration, identity, data and the applications you run.
- Most incidents start with a setting
- A public store, an over-privileged role or a default that was never changed is a more common path than a novel exploit.
- Identity crosses more than one cloud
- People, services and suppliers often have access in more than one provider. The architecture has to say who can reach what.
- Evidence for wherever you operate
- The same design can support ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA or a privacy law, depending on which of those apply to you.
What the work covers
Engagements are scoped to the accounts you have on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Reviews use the Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix and CIS Benchmarks. Identity design follows NIST zero trust guidance.
- Strategy and governance
- A cloud security strategy, the risks you will accept, and the policies that say how teams are allowed to use the cloud.
- Assessments and audits
- A review of infrastructure, platform and software services against the Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix and CIS Benchmarks, including posture across more than one provider.
- Architecture and design
- Network boundaries, identity and access, and a zero trust design for the accounts and workloads you actually run.
- Data protection
- Classification, encryption, key management and controls that limit how sensitive data leaves a store, a database or a service.
- Compliance and automation
- Controls and evidence mapped to the obligations that apply where you operate, with checks that keep running as the estate changes.
- Ongoing security
- Monitoring, response and posture review on an agreed schedule. Around-the-clock cover is included only when that is part of the engagement.
How an engagement runs
The sequence is the same in any country. What changes is which obligations the evidence is written for.
- 1
Map the estate
List providers, accounts, workloads, identities and data, and write down what the provider secures and what you secure.
- 2
Assess the posture
Compare the live configuration with the benchmarks and obligations that apply. Rank what would actually change the outcome.
- 3
Design the architecture
Agree network, identity, data and logging controls before more of the estate is built on the current pattern.
- 4
Put the controls in
Implement what was agreed, including the checks that belong in the pipeline so a bad default is less likely to ship again.
- 5
Keep the evidence current
Watch for drift, tune what is noisy, and keep the record an auditor or a customer will ask for.
What you receive
- A map of accounts, workloads and who is responsible for each control.
- Findings rated by impact, with the configuration that caused them.
- An architecture for network, identity and data protection.
- A control set mapped to the standards that apply to you.
- A way to keep watching the posture after the first review.
Standards the work can align to
F Creative Studio 360 maps the architecture to the references that apply where you operate. The usual set is ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Sector or privacy rules are added when they apply, including HIPAA for health data in the United States and the GDPR in the European Union.
Microsoft describes the same split of duties for Azure, and Google describes it for Google Cloud. Alignment with a standard is not a certification.
Common questions
What is cloud security architecture?+
It is the design of how a cloud environment is separated, accessed, logged and protected, and the rules teams follow when they change it. F Creative Studio 360 does that work for organisations in any country, across the providers you already use.
Which clouds do you work with?+
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, including environments that use more than one of them, plus the software services those estates depend on. The engagement is scoped to the accounts you authorise.
Where do you deliver this?+
For organisations in any country. The technical work is the same. Compliance follows the obligations that apply where you operate, such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA where it applies to health data, or a privacy law such as the GDPR in the European Union.
How is this different from a penetration test?+
A penetration test tries agreed systems to see what can be exploited. This work designs and reviews the cloud itself: accounts, configuration, identity, network and data. Testing can be added when you want proof. It is a separate service unless it is written into the scope.
Do you certify our cloud?+
No. F Creative Studio 360 aligns the design and the evidence to the standards you need. Certification, where a scheme has one, is issued by the body that runs that scheme, not by this engagement.
How much does it cost?+
It depends on how many accounts and providers are in scope, and whether the work is a strategy, an assessment, a design, or ongoing monitoring. A scoping conversation with F Creative Studio 360 is the way to get a quote. There is no obligation to proceed.
Start with the accounts you already have.
F Creative Studio 360 will look at the providers, the constraints and the reason for the work, then say whether the next step is an assessment, a design, or ongoing review.