Enterprise cloud security operating model for Azure and hybrid environments - defines service scope, governance, controls-as-code, metrics, and measurable outcomes for security leaders and platform teams.
Part of the Coding-Autopilot-System portfolio of enterprise AI and platform engineering artifacts.
This repository is a public-safe, enterprise-grade operating model for a Cloud Security Service delivered as a service/product. It defines scope, boundaries, governance, metrics, runbooks, and implementation stubs to help platform and security leaders stand up a predictable, measurable cloud security capability.
It is intentionally written as a service architecture asset, not a product brochure. The value is in showing how security, platform engineering, governance, and controls-as-code fit together as an enterprise operating model.
- Head of Cloud Platform Services
- Security leadership (CISO org)
- Cloud engineering leads
- Audit/compliance stakeholders
Organizations often treat cloud security as a toolset. This repo reframes it as a service with clear ownership, interfaces, measurable outcomes, and lifecycle management across Azure and hybrid/on-prem environments.
For hiring and portfolio review, that makes the repo useful as evidence of architecture thinking beyond raw infrastructure delivery: service design, operating model definition, control ownership, auditability, and cross-team interfaces.
This repo keeps a strict cloud security identity, but it also demonstrates capabilities that matter across adjacent platform domains:
- Designing shared services with explicit boundaries, consumers, and measurable outcomes
- Converting governance intent into controls-as-code, implementation stubs, and runbooks
- Establishing identity, logging, and change-management foundations required by AI and platform workloads
- Producing audit-friendly documentation that platform, security, and engineering leaders can all use
In other words, this is the security operating model that supports higher-level platform and AI services without pretending to be those services.
- Azure and hybrid coverage (Azure Arc and Azure Local/on-prem)
- Policy, identity, logging, incident response, and governance
- Controls as Code examples (policy, IaC, detection)
- Tenant-specific configurations or secrets
- Production-ready infrastructure code
- Vendor-specific operational details beyond Azure and hybrid scope
- We do: define standards, manage policy-as-code, enable monitoring, coordinate incident response, provide evidence.
- We don't: own app code, operate app teams' pipelines, or run business application production on their behalf.
- Start with the executive overview and service definition.
- Use the operating model and KPIs to set expectations.
- Apply the templates and runbooks in operational workflows.
- Extend implementation stubs in your own environment.
- Executive overview:
docs/00-executive-overview.md - Service definition:
docs/01-service-definition.md - Operating model:
docs/05-operating-model.md - Metrics & KPIs:
docs/07-metrics-and-kpis.md - Roadmap & maturity:
docs/08-roadmap-and-maturity.md - Hybrid/Azure Local:
docs/18-hybrid-azure-local.md - Runbooks:
docs/20-runbooks/README.md - Templates:
docs/21-templates/README.md - Diagrams:
docs/22-diagrams/README.md - Threat model:
docs/23-threat-model.md - Static site:
docs/index.html - Wiki - overview, service definition, architecture, metrics & compliance
graph LR
A[Discover Demand] --> B[Define Service]
B --> C[Build Controls as Code]
C --> D[Operate & Monitor]
D --> E[Measure & Improve]
E --> B
- ISO 27001: The service model maps to control intent areas such as access control, logging, incident response,
change management, and risk treatment. See the mapping table in
docs/10-audit-readiness.md. - CISSP domains: Coverage spans Security & Risk Management, Asset Security, Security Engineering, IAM, Security
Assessment, Security Operations, and Software Development Security. See
docs/00-executive-overview.md.
This repository shows the ability to:
- Define a security service as part of an enterprise platform operating model
- Connect strategy, governance, implementation patterns, and operational evidence in one coherent artifact set
- Design for Azure-first environments while preserving hybrid and audit-readiness requirements
- Document reusable service foundations that can sit under regulated data, platform, and AI workloads
Open docs/index.html to browse a minimal HTML version of the content with navigation and search.
The repository includes:
/docs- service model documentation and diagrams/impl- Azure and hybrid implementation stubs/agile- backlog, ceremonies, and metrics
See LICENSE.