Cloud and Infrastructure Security in the Age of AI™

The majority of actors in your cloud accounts are no longer human.

Three breaks happened simultaneously and they are inseparable. The identity ratio inverted: non-human identities now outnumber human ones by an order of magnitude, and the trend continues. Infrastructure pace outran governance pace: changes that used to take a person an hour now happen in seconds across thousands of resources, while the approval and audit processes designed to govern them still operate at human pace. And the accountability chain that cloud audit logs exist to preserve no longer has a clean answer to its central question when the actor is an AI agent operating on behalf of a workflow that itself was triggered by another agent.

This book names that combined condition The Sovereignty Problem and treats it as the defining cloud security shift of this technology cycle. Teams that solve it use AI to finally compress the identity, posture, and threat detection work that has been crushing them for a decade, and they rebuild their governance model around the new reality. Teams that do not operate cloud environments where the audit log no longer answers the question it was designed to answer, and they will not realize it until a regulator, customer, or incident makes them.

What this book gives you

At its center are five working frameworks cloud security leaders can apply directly: The Cloud Attack Surface Map™ (the surface extended to include AI workloads, agent identities, model artifacts, and machine-paced change vectors); The Non-Human Identity Equation™ (the model for governing the identity explosion through classification, lifecycle, scoping, and accountability); The Blast Radius Calculus™ (the framework for evaluating risk in machine-paced environments, where small actions can produce catastrophic outcomes routinely); The AI Cloud Security Lifecycle™ (the integrated operating model that merges cloud security operations with AI-specific controls); and The Cloud Sovereignty Score™ (the maturity model and assessment tool, a defensible way to measure whether a cloud security program has caught up to the AI era).

The frameworks integrate with existing CSPM, CNAPP, CIEM, and SIEM investments rather than replacing them, and align with NIST SP 800-207 Zero Trust Architecture, the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix, and emerging cloud audit standards.

Who it's for

Cloud security architects, CSPM/CNAPP/CIEM operators, platform engineering leaders, identity and IAM teams, SRE and DevOps leaders, CISOs with significant cloud footprint, and compliance and audit leaders preparing for the next wave of cloud audit requirements. Precise enough that a principal cloud engineer respects it, accessible enough that a VP of Platform Engineering reads it on the plane.