Friction
The risk register and the cloud architecture live in different languages.
For CISOs and security leaders
Translate cloud architecture into a risk posture the board can understand, the auditor can test and the engineering team can actually change.
- Evidence, not assurance theatre
- 4 relevant pillars
- 4 starting points
What gets in the way.
Security leaders do not need another dashboard that says red. They need a defensible baseline, a clear owner for each gap and evidence that stays current between audits. Wombat connects architecture controls to the regulations and frameworks already on the risk register.
Friction
Audit evidence is assembled manually at the end of the cycle.
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Supplier and jurisdiction risk is assessed once, then goes stale.
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Board reporting is disconnected from the controls engineers actually run.
What changes with a shared baseline.
The goal is not another dashboard. It is a control model that engineering, security and finance can all use in the same conversation.
- A common baseline across the 8 pillars and the mapped frameworks.
- Control-level evidence that can be exported for audit and procurement.
- A direct line from NIS2, DORA or C5 obligations to technical controls.
- A repeatable score that shows movement, not just a point-in-time opinion.
Pillars that matter for this role.
Start with the pillars closest to the decisions you own, then use the scorecard to see the whole system.
WAF-SEC
Security
The core control environment: access, segmentation, cryptography, vulnerability handling.
Read the Security pillar →WAF-SOV
Sovereign
Jurisdiction, supplier concentration and exit risk belong in the risk register.
Read the Sovereign pillar →WAF-OPS
Operational Excellence
Incident response, change control and supplier oversight need evidence, not assertions.
Read the Operational Excellence pillar →WAF-REL
Reliability
Business continuity and recovery are board-level resilience questions.
Read the Reliability pillar →Start here.
Pick the artifact closest to your next decision. Each one leads back to the same control model.
Compliance hubs
Open →Trust center
Open →Controls catalogue
Open →Governance & community
Open →Make the next audit a baseline, not a scramble
Use one score across architecture, operations and suppliers, then map the gaps to the obligations on your register.
Other roles.
The same control model is read differently by each role. Use the adjacent page to find the questions that matter to the rest of the team.
Golden paths without lock-in
For platform teams
Give product teams a paved road that is secure, observable and portable — without turning the platform team into a ticket queue.
Open the role page →Unit economics, not just spend
For FinOps and cloud economics
Connect cost decisions to reliability, performance and sustainability — so the cheapest change is not always the one that creates the next incident.
Open the role page →Carbon-aware architecture
For sustainability and ESG teams
Make cloud efficiency and carbon reporting part of the architecture baseline, not a separate spreadsheet owned by someone else.
Open the role page →