Cloud Security Assessment
Identify exploitable Azure exposure, gaps in Microsoft Defender for Cloud coverage, policy drift, and workload protection priorities before they become incidents or audit failures.
Where is Azure exposed today?
This assessment is designed for CISOs, cloud security leaders, Azure platform owners, and infrastructure teams after rapid Azure growth, a security incident, an audit finding, or a change in Defender licensing and coverage. It is useful when Secure Score is visible but the team cannot tell which findings represent material business risk.
We review the Azure scopes and workloads that matter to your business, including management groups and subscriptions, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Defender CSPM and enabled workload protection plans, Azure Policy, Azure Resource Graph, Azure networking, Key Vault, compute, containers, storage, databases, and connected hybrid or multicloud resources where applicable.
You receive a Cloud Security Exposure Report: attack-path and exposure findings, Defender coverage matrix, policy and exemption review, prioritized remediation backlog, and 90-day security improvement plan. Sample findings may include critical subscriptions without the right Defender plan, publicly exposed management ports, stale policy exemptions, excessive resource permissions, missing vulnerability coverage, or unmonitored high-value workloads.
Our process
Turn posture data into a risk-based remediation plan
We combine configuration evidence with workload criticality, internet exposure, identity paths, data sensitivity, and exploitability. The goal is to separate urgent attack paths from lower-value score improvement and give each action an owner and business reason.
Map business-critical cloud assets
We confirm management group and subscription scope, workload owners, critical applications, data sensitivity, regulatory requirements, internet exposure, and recent incidents. Required inputs include subscription inventory, architecture diagrams, security standards, and known exceptions.
Scope and context
Inspect Defender coverage and exposure
Using read-only access, exports, screenshots, or working sessions, we review Defender for Cloud settings, CSPM capabilities, workload protection plans, recommendations, attack paths, Secure Score context, regulatory compliance, and security alerts.
Posture review
Validate guardrails and exceptions
We examine Azure Policy initiatives, assignment scope, enforcement, exemptions, public access controls, network paths, secrets protection, logging, and remediation ownership. Sample tests confirm whether controls are deployed consistently across critical subscriptions.
Control validation
Prioritize fixes and protection projects
We group actions by exploitable risk, business impact, effort, dependency, and owner. The roadmap distinguishes quick configuration changes from Defender onboarding, Azure Policy deployment, architecture remediation, and longer-term operations work.
Remediation roadmap
OUR WORK
Typical duration and participants
A focused assessment typically takes two to three weeks once access and stakeholder availability are confirmed. Core participants usually include a security sponsor, cloud security lead, Azure platform owner, Security Operations representative, and one or two business-critical workload owners.
OUR WORK
Evidence and access required
Provide subscription and management-group inventory, workload criticality, architecture and network diagrams, security and compliance standards, known exemptions, recent incidents, Defender plan and licensing information, and read-only access or agreed exports. We confirm the exact evidence list at kickoff.
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Follow-on project matched to the finding
The next phase may be a Defender for Cloud coverage and configuration sprint, Defender CSPM onboarding, Azure Policy guardrail implementation, high-risk exposure remediation, or a recurring cloud security posture management service.
