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Cloudry & Continuous Assurance
Cloudry helps you achieve and maintain your application's compliance posture as supported requirements evolve.
Because Cloudry manages the application infrastructure, we can update supported controls, configurations, framework mappings, technical safeguards, and evidence workflows when relevant rules, standards, or framework requirements change.
Small Cloudry-managed updates can be handled as part of normal platform maintenance. If a change requires a decision from the customer, MSP, consultant, or another provider, Cloudry can surface that responsibility clearly for review.
Your dashboard and assurance history give you current visibility into:
• what Cloudry can verify;
• what changed;
• what Cloudry updated;
• what still needs attention.
Cloudry helps maintain the managed technical layer and can help customers achieve and maintain compliance, but Cloudry does not issue certifications or replace an auditor, assessor, C3PAO, or other required certification authority.
Cloudry applications are built on a shared assurance foundation where supported security, monitoring, recovery, logging, vulnerability-management, and evidence capabilities are already implemented and maintained.
Cloudry modules can also carry provable controls mapped to supported frameworks such as:
• NIST
• CMMC
• SOC 2
• ISO/IEC 27001
• HIPAA
When Cloudry builds a full application, integration, workflow, or managed software component, the Cloudry-built portion can inherit the applicable controls provided by that foundation instead of recreating the same safeguards from scratch for every project.
Where supported, the customer or MSP can reference:
• the relevant Cloudry control;
• framework mapping;
• Cloudry Platform Security Plan;
• responsibility allocation;
• evidence;
• Trust Center proof.
This helps customers achieve and maintain a stronger technical compliance posture while keeping customer-, MSP-, consultant-, and external-provider responsibilities clearly separated.
Cloudry stays involved after launch.
We continue managing the agreed application infrastructure and can provide:
• recurring technical assurance reports;
• infrastructure maintenance;
• platform updates;
• application monitoring;
• backup and recovery monitoring;
• recurring vulnerability scanning;
• supported vulnerability remediation;
• access and logging support;
• deployment and change history;
• technical evidence preservation;
• framework mapping updates.
The goal is to keep the application secure, maintained, review-ready, and easier to support over time instead of handing you a codebase and leaving your team responsible for everything afterward.
Cloudry helps maintain the application's technical compliance posture, but formal certifications and independent assessments still come from the appropriate authority.
Yes.
Cloudry can build custom applications, integrations, workflows, automation, and AI capabilities around systems your organization or client already uses.
That may include:
• APIs;
• Microsoft environments;
• CRM platforms;
• ERP systems;
• document systems;
• databases;
• internal business services;
• existing applications.
Only components built and managed inside the Cloudry assurance boundary automatically inherit the applicable Cloudry-managed controls.
An existing third-party system does not automatically become covered by Cloudry controls simply because Cloudry integrates with it.
If you later want to move existing functionality onto Cloudry, we can also help plan a migration or rebuild so more of that functionality can benefit from Cloudry's managed security controls, monitoring, remediation, evidence history, and assurance model.
For regulated environments, integrations should also be reviewed for:
• data flow;
• permissions;
• customer boundary;
• responsibility;
• sensitive-data handling.
MSPs & Technology Consultants
Cloudry gives MSPs a way to offer custom applications, integrations, automation, data tools, and AI-enabled software without building an internal software-development department.
Your client gets the software they need.
The MSP keeps the client relationship.
Cloudry handles the managed application layer.
That means the MSP can say yes to projects that might otherwise be:
• declined;
• referred away;
• sent to freelancers;
• handed to a development firm the MSP does not control.
Cloudry can also give the MSP ongoing visibility into the applications through the Partner Dashboard.
Yes.
Cloudry is designed to extend the MSP or consultant relationship, not replace it.
Cloudry focuses on the custom-application layer.
We are not trying to replace the partner's:
• help desk;
• endpoint support;
• Microsoft administration;
• networking;
• general cybersecurity practice;
• vCIO/vCISO relationship;
• overall managed IT agreement.
The MSP remains the customer's primary technology partner while Cloudry handles the agreed application work.
Yes.
You do not need to migrate your entire customer base to Cloudry.
Start with one real client need, such as:
• a portal;
• integration;
• workflow;
• dashboard;
• AI use case;
• approval process;
• document system;
• application improvement.
This is also the intended model for early Cloudry partner pilots.
Yes. That is an important part of the partner model.
Cloudry lets the MSP offer capabilities it may not currently provide internally, including:
• custom applications;
• workflow automation;
• integrations;
• AI-enabled software;
• regulated application assurance;
• application improvements.
Cloudry Client Intelligence is also designed to identify evidence-backed opportunities across managed customers.
For example:
• secure workflow automation;
• new application integrations;
• recovery improvements;
• AI governance;
• application modernization;
• evidence/readiness improvements.
The goal is to help the MSP find useful improvements for its customers while creating additional project and recurring-service opportunities.
Cloudry Client Intelligence analyzes information from Cloudry-managed applications and surfaces recommendations across four categories:
Protect
Reduce security or resilience exposure.
Prepare
Improve readiness, evidence, or review preparation.
Improve
Improve the application, workflow, reliability, or operations.
Expand
Identify new applications, integrations, AI capabilities, automation, or service opportunities.
The goal is not to create another generic score.
The goal is to help the partner answer:
What should I do next for this client?
When appropriate, the partner can turn a recommendation directly into a Cloudry request for more information, scope, or implementation.
Yes.
The Partner Dashboard includes a Requests workflow for Cloudry-specific work such as:
• new applications;
• application features;
• integrations;
• workflow automation;
• AI capabilities;
• assurance work;
• technical investigations;
• application improvements.
Requests can show:
• client;
• application;
• current status;
• urgency;
• owner;
• who is waiting on whom;
• next step.
The goal is to give partners a simple Cloudry service queue without trying to replace the MSP's PSA or help desk.
Government Contractors & Regulated Businesses
Cloudry helps implement, monitor, maintain, remediate, and document supported technical controls inside the Cloudry-managed application environment.
That can help an organization achieve and maintain its compliance posture by reducing the amount of technical security and evidence work that must be built independently around every custom application.
Depending on the application and framework, Cloudry can support:
• control mappings;
• continuous monitoring;
• vulnerability management;
• supported remediation;
• logging;
• backup and recovery evidence;
• access-control evidence;
• deployment history;
• policy relationships;
• SSP relationships;
• responsibility tracking;
• Trust Center proof.
Cloudry does not issue the certification itself.
Formal certification or assessment still comes from the appropriate independent authority.
Cloudry can help you achieve and maintain the technical portions of your CMMC readiness and compliance posture that fall within the Cloudry-managed application scope.
For example, Cloudry can support:
• inherited technical controls;
• tenant SSP relationships;
• responsibility matrices;
• policy tracking;
• evidence history;
• vulnerability remediation;
• review preparation;
• Trust Center proof.
CMMC also includes responsibilities that may belong to:
• your organization;
• your MSP;
• employees;
• external service providers;
• readiness consultants.
Cloudry can help track those responsibilities, but it does not automatically satisfy them.
Cloudry also does not issue CMMC certification and does not replace a C3PAO or other required assessor.
Yes. That is one of the main benefits of the model.
Traditional audit or assessment preparation can require organizations to reconstruct technical history long after the work happened.
Teams may need to answer:
• What changed?
• What was deployed?
• Was the control operating?
• Were backups working?
• When was the vulnerability fixed?
• Who was responsible?
• What evidence existed at that time?
Cloudry is designed to preserve more of this technical evidence as the application operates.
That can reduce:
• manual evidence gathering;
• screenshot collection;
• repeated consulting work;
• engineering time spent reconstructing history;
• pre-audit stress;
• application-specific readiness work.
Cloudry does not eliminate every audit or certification cost, but it can significantly reduce the technical work required to prepare the managed application for review.
Yes.
Not every framework requirement is technical or Cloudry-managed.
For example:
• employee security training;
• endpoint/laptop monitoring;
• physical access;
• personnel procedures;
• internal incident-response exercises.
Cloudry can still help the MSP or customer track:
• who owns the requirement;
• current status;
• due dates;
• supporting evidence;
• related policies;
• related framework requirements.
This gives the organization a fuller readiness picture without pretending Cloudry performs work that belongs to someone else.
Security, Remediation & Proof
Cloudry performs recurring vulnerability monitoring for the managed application scope.
When a supported finding falls within Cloudry's responsibility, Cloudry can move through:
Detect → remediate → retest → preserve evidence
This is a major difference between simply detecting a vulnerability and actually operating the application.
A normal scanner may tell you that something is wrong.
Cloudry can often fix the Cloudry-managed issue, verify the result, and preserve the remediation history.
Issues outside Cloudry's scope are assigned to the appropriate owner rather than silently treated as resolved.
The Trust Center provides visibility into supported Cloudry-managed controls, assurance results, and proof.
Where supported, Cloudry is designed to let customers, MSPs, consultants, and reviewers verify selected control results instead of simply trusting a dashboard.
Proof can include information such as:
• control;
• scope;
• evaluation result;
• timestamp;
• evidence digest;
• evaluator version;
• verification data;
• signed proof metadata.
Sensitive customer information should not be exposed publicly.
The Trust Center supports the technical evidence story; it does not replace formal certification.
For regulated applications, Cloudry can help connect the technical application environment to the documentation that explains it.
That can include:
• tenant policies;
• policy versions;
• tenant/application SSP;
• Cloudry Platform Security Plan;
• Customer Responsibility Matrix;
• inherited control references;
• evidence;
• Trust Center proof.
The goal is to make it clear:
• what Cloudry provides;
• what the MSP provides;
• what the customer provides;
• what another provider provides.
This reduces ambiguity during readiness work and future assessments.
AI Security
Cloudry can build AI-enabled applications and workflows, and we are also developing additional AI-security capabilities around those systems.
These include:
CAACS
AI-agent access controls designed to restrict what an AI agent can access or change.
ARMF
Adversarial testing designed to exercise defined AI misuse and attack scenarios.
24/7 AI penetration testing
A developing system that uses dynamic LLM-driven attack techniques and known vulnerability classes against a controlled production-adjacent environment.
Bounded AI threat response
A developing system intended to detect supported threats, authorize a controlled response, verify the result, and preserve evidence.
Capabilities that are still under development must remain clearly labeled as such.
Cloudry is developing continuous AI-driven adversarial testing against a controlled production-adjacent version of the platform.
The goal is to use:
• dynamic/interchangeable LLMs;
• known vulnerability classes;
• changing attack strategies;
• ARMF scenarios;
• repeated retesting.
When the system finds a weakness, the intended lifecycle is:
Attack → identify weakness → strengthen Cloudry defenses → retest → preserve proof
Because Cloudry manages a shared platform, improvements learned from one meaningful finding can potentially strengthen defenses across multiple Cloudry-managed applications.
Supported results are intended to be connected to the Trust Center proof model.
This feature is in development. It does not replace an independent penetration test, and it cannot find every vulnerability.
Pricing, Ownership & Getting Started
Cloudry separates the one-time application build from ongoing managed operation.
Custom build
Quoted by project based on scope, integrations, complexity, migration, resources, and customer requirements.
Managed application
Standard managed application pricing depends on the resources and services required.
Continuous Assurance
Additional assurance pricing depends on the framework and application scope.
MSP partner pricing
Provided privately so MSPs can package Cloudry within their own service without publicly exposing their Cloudry cost basis.
Before development begins, Cloudry defines:
• what is included;
• build price;
• milestones;
• expected timeline;
• recurring managed cost;
• assurance scope.
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