Acquisition added a different cloud
You ran on AWS. The acquired entity runs on Azure. The integration plan covers product and people. It does not cover how the security operating model spans both clouds, with one auditor watching.
Multi-Cloud Management is the operating layer above your providers. Unified posture, rationalized tooling, consistent evidence, and the handoff path from project to managed service. So the board, the auditor, and your engineering team all see the same security story.
You ended up in multiple clouds for different reasons: an acquisition, a product line, a residency rule, a deliberate diversification. The reason rarely matters by the time the security team is staring at three native consoles, three sets of IAM, and three ways to answer the same question.
Running multi-cloud as silos costs you at three predictable moments: audit time, when one framework produces three evidence stories; incident time, when lateral movement leaves the SOC reconciling three log pipelines; and budget time, when per-cloud spend is twice a rationalized model. The work is bringing the three under one operating layer.
One framework reaching three environments produces three evidence stories.
Cross-cloud lateral movement leaves the SOC reconciling three log pipelines.
Three identity models, three privilege paths, three answers to the same question.
Per-cloud security tooling costs multiples of one rationalized operating model.
You ran on AWS. The acquired entity runs on Azure. The integration plan covers product and people. It does not cover how the security operating model spans both clouds, with one auditor watching.
Product A built on AWS. Product B chose GCP for ML capacity. Product C runs in Azure because of an enterprise customer requirement. Three security stacks, three on-call rotations, three answers to every audit question.
Three CSPMs, three SIEMs, two vulnerability scanners, vendor-native tooling running unused alongside third-party tools that do the same job. The finance team noticed first. The CISO inherited the cleanup.
Cross-cloud findings, drift, identity sprawl, and framework coverage rolled up into one view. The working groups and the executive team look at the same numbers.
Federation against your IdP, a common role taxonomy across providers, machine-identity inventory, and break-glass paths the auditor can walk in one session.
Provider-specific evidence consolidated into one repository, mapped to SOC 2, HITRUST, HIPAA, PCI, NYDFS, or ISO controls. One audit story, sourced from three providers.
A current-state tool inventory, a future-state stack sized to coverage requirements, and a retirement plan for the duplicate licenses. Saved spend reallocated to real gaps, not banked as savings.
Detection logic written once, deployed across providers. The SOC operates one queue. Cross-cloud attack paths get caught at the second hop, not after the post-incident review.
Security spend by provider, by tool, by control coverage. Reviewed jointly by finance and security on a quarterly cadence. The next cost decision is informed, not reactive.
Who owns what across providers. Which decisions are made centrally, which are delegated to product teams, which are escalated to the GRC forum. Written, signed, and on the working-group agenda.
The operating model we stand up converts to a managed service. Your team runs it, our team runs it, or a hybrid model fits the org. The control set, the evidence base, and the SOC queue stay the same on either side of the handoff.
Current state across all clouds. Inventory of accounts, identities, security tools, detection coverage, evidence sources, and spend. The gap and overlap mapped at the operating-model level, not at the per-cloud level.
A unified operating model. Posture view, identity model, evidence consolidation, tooling stack, detection rules, FinOps cadence, governance charter. Designed with your security, engineering, and finance leads, signed at the executive level.
Implementation. Posture pipeline stood up, identity federation completed, evidence repository wired, detection rules deployed, duplicate tools retired, FinOps cadence running. Each piece validated against the operating model before it is declared live.
The operating model runs. Cross-cloud governance forum on cadence, SOC queue running detections across providers, FinOps and SecOps reviewing on the same schedule. Hand off to your team, our Managed Security Services, or a hybrid arrangement.
Cross-provider posture management, identity federation, tooling rationalization, and the operating model that lets one security program span AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments.
See expertiseFederation against your IdP, cross-cloud role taxonomy, machine-identity hygiene, and the privileged-access model that holds across providers without becoming three different stories.
See expertiseCross-cloud log consolidation, retention aligned to framework windows, and the detection-rule layer that lets the SOC see one queue across providers.
See expertiseControl inheritance from each provider, then the cross-cloud controls you operate on top, cross-mapped to SOC 2, HITRUST, HIPAA, PCI, and NYDFS in a single evidence base.
See expertiseThirty minutes with a senior partner. Bring the clouds you run, the tools you license, and the framework you report against. We will tell you what one operating model would look like across them.