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Cloud and SaaS review

Test shared responsibility against actual settings, data paths and recovery evidence.

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Provider security capabilities and customer configuration are different. Review tenant boundaries, administrative identities, external sharing, log coverage and recovery together. Controls may require particular licences or service tiers; verify the product and contract rather than assuming availability.

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Allocate responsibility

Record provider/customer responsibilities for data, identity, infrastructure and application. Explain “provider-managed” by service layer and assign any gaps.

Expected evidence

Service-specific responsibility matrix

One control, three perspectives

Which setting is actually effective?

Run an authorized resource-level negative test.

Effective configuration and test result

Evaluate evidence

Claim: External sharing is restricted.

Weak support

The policy name includes “secure”.

Stronger support

What evidence would you request before closing this claim?

Decision desk

A central policy is enabled, but a project can create anonymous links.

How do you proceed?

Worked example

This record is fictional. Do not treat sample results as evidence for your own work.

ResourceOwnerExpected controlEffective settingTestAction
Example projectCloud service ownerNo anonymous sharingLegacy-link exceptionSynthetic guest testRemove old link and verify

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Checked: 2026-10-21 · Edition 2026.10