The guide is a cloud security readiness self-assessment aligned to the NIST CSF (Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover). It stresses treating data as the primary asset, understanding shared responsibility with each provider, and enforcing policy centrally to avoid shadow IT. It covers risk and supply-chain management, full identity lifecycle control with strong authentication, and security awareness training. For detection it recommends centralized log management/SIEM and endpoint detection with analytics to spot anomalies. For response it calls for a drilled incident response plan, clear provider handoffs, communication templates, and SOAR-style automation. For recovery it highlights cloud storage rollback, service level agreements, and multi-zone or multi-region failover.

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