Forrest Foster (MBA, BSIT, CISSP, CISA, CRISC) is a Compliance Architect and author of Cloud Compliance Essentials: How to Enable and Maintain Market Access for B2B CSPs (CRC Press). With 35+ years of experience, he helps B2B Cloud Service Providers avoid "compliance overreach" by building progressive maturity models. His framework guides organizations from foundational ISO 27001/42001 governance to advanced frameworks like FedRAMP only when operationally ready. A former ISC2 Chapter President and CCSP exam developer, Forrest advises leadership teams on turning compliance governance into a sustainable market access engine from his base in Northern Colorado.