What Is the Shared Fate Model?

Nick Godfrey (Director, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud) presents the "shared fate" model as an evolution of the shared responsibility approach, advocating that cloud service providers take a more active, collaborative role in customers' security. The model emphasizes three pillars—enhanced collaboration between provider and customer, actionable guidance and frameworks to meet policy and regulatory goals, and robust secure-by-default service configurations—to reduce gaps created by rigid responsibility boundaries while acknowledging customers retain some security responsibilities.