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Proposal — SnowOps "Certification-Ready" Advanced Engagement

Prepared for: {{CLIENT}} ({{CLIENT_CONTACT}})  |  Date: {{DATE}} Package: Advanced "Certification-Ready" [A]  |  Framework: {{FRAMEWORK}}  |  Audit deadline: {{DEADLINE}} Scoped from: Discovery Audit

1. Executive summary

Advanced is a strict superset of Baseline. This engagement delivers everything in Cloud Secure plus the formal evidence, monitoring, vendor-risk, and policy-management layer an auditor expects — run in parallel with your {{FRAMEWORK}} auditor so the platform and the audit converge on {{DEADLINE}}.

Compliance claim (non-negotiable): SnowOps makes {{CLIENT}} audit-ready and generates the evidence an auditor requests automatically. The certificate is issued by your auditor, not by SnowOps. We do not guarantee certification.

2. Scope — Baseline plus Advanced

Includes the full Baseline package (see baseline proposal §3) — plus:

Most Advanced assets are roadmap (M4). Each is marked (delivered during engagement) and scoped honestly against its milestone. Where {{DEADLINE}} precedes an asset's availability, we say so and sequence accordingly.

  • Automated evidence collection — EvidencePlatform + Vanta/Drata adapters; Defender → Vanta sync; Resource Graph control queries; access-review automation (E1–E6) (M4).
  • SIEM — Microsoft Sentinel with MITRE-mapped analytics + SOAR playbooks (J3, K3) (M4).
  • Advanced data protection — CMK/HSM keys, DLP, Purview classification, data-residency enforcement (M2, M4, M5, M6) (M2a/M4).
  • Advanced network — Firewall Premium (IDPS/TLS inspection), WAF, DDoS, zero-trust reference (N2, N3, N4, N7) (M2b/M4).
  • Vendor / third-party risk — inventory, SOC2/ISO tracker, DPA tracking, offboarding (P1–P4) (M4).
  • HR security — onboarding/offboarding provisioning, training tracking, AUP (Q1–Q5) (M4).
  • Policy management + trust center — policy library with signed amendments, trust center, questionnaire library, compliance scorecard (V1, T1–T4, S4) (M4).

3. Findings → roadmap

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4. Timeline

Target: 10–14 weeks, parallel to the auditor. Baseline foundations (wks 1–6) then Advanced evidence/monitoring/governance (wks 6–14). Milestone-based: 40% signature / 30% Baseline-accepted / 30% Advanced-accepted.

5. Commercial
Project fee {{PROJECT_FEE}} (fixed) — milestone-billed 40/30/30
Retainer {{RETAINER}}/month — drift, evidence sync, posture, SIEM tuning, support SLA

Pricing per Y2. Finalize before send.

6. Acceptance criteria

  • All Baseline acceptance criteria met (see baseline proposal §7).
  • Evidence platform syncing control evidence for ≥ the agreed control set.
  • SIEM live with analytics; a synthetic incident creates an alert.
  • Compliance scorecard generated; framework coverage mapped (Y7).
  • Auditor has read access to evidence; questionnaire library delivered.

7. Assumptions & out of scope

  • Assumes a Baseline-equivalent floor (greenfield or this engagement builds it).
  • Assumes Entra ID P2, Vanta/Drata account, and an engaged auditor.
  • Out of scope: the auditor's fee + the certificate; application pentest; AWS (M5).

Governed by the SnowOps MSA + SOW (Y12). Nidhi-reviewed for compliance-claim accuracy. Valid 30 days.