Microsoft Azure Security & Hardening
Close the Microsoft Azure exposure that fails audits and cyber-insurance - identity, network, and workload controls, enforced by policy.
No cost, no obligation - you keep the report either way. Needs read access to your Azure subscriptions.
The problem
A Microsoft Azure estate grows faster than its guardrails. Over-permissioned identities, public exposure, inconsistent network controls, and unmanaged secrets accumulate quietly - until a security baseline, a cyber-insurance questionnaire, or an audit surfaces them all at once. The fix is rarely a single service. It is a coherent posture across identity, network, data, and workloads - enforced through policy and kept that way.
What's Included
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud rollout and Secure Score uplift with a prioritised, risk-ranked remediation plan
- Microsoft Entra identity hardening for Azure - role-based access control (RBAC) least privilege, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and Conditional Access
- Azure Policy governance guardrails that enforce configuration and prevent drift, aligned to a Cloud Adoption Framework landing zone
- Network security design - segmentation, private endpoints, and removal of unnecessary public exposure
- Microsoft Azure Key Vault secrets, keys, and certificate management with managed identities - no long-lived credentials
- Encryption, diagnostic logging, and Microsoft Sentinel / Log Analytics coverage across subscriptions
- Movement toward the CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark, ISO 27001, and cyber-insurance requirements
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) so the hardened baseline is repeatable and enforced
Baselines & Accreditations
We specialise in aligning your estate with the baselines and accreditations that matter most to your business.
Microsoft Security Baseline
Microsoft's recommended security configuration for Microsoft Azure, Windows, and Microsoft Entra, applied and enforced as a consistent baseline.
CMMC Level 1 & Level 2
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification - Level 1 safeguarding controls for Federal Contract Information (FCI), and Level 2 for Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).
CIS Controls & Benchmarks
Center for Internet Security Controls and the CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark, mapped to your Azure subscriptions.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF 2.0) - a risk-based structure for governing, identifying, protecting, detecting, and responding across your estate.
ISO 27001
The international standard for an information security management system (ISMS), with the technical controls in place to support certification.
SOC 2
System and Organization Controls 2 - the trust-services criteria (security, availability, confidentiality) your customers and auditors expect.
Partners
We work with specialist tooling partners for audit and independent verification, so the picture of your posture is evidence-based rather than opinion.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Audit & reportingContinuous posture assessment across your subscriptions. Secure Score and the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark come as standard - enough to see where you stand. The wider regulatory compliance standards above unlock once Defender CSPM is enabled.
Continuous compliance monitoring
Third-party verificationContinuous compliance monitoring and independent verification, so evidence stays current between formal audits.
Outcomes
- A measurably stronger Azure posture - Microsoft Defender for Cloud Secure Score raised with a clear remediation trail
- Least-privilege identity and just-in-time access rather than standing high-privilege accounts
- Public exposure reduced and network paths controlled by default
- Repeatable, policy-enforced hardening - the same Terraform baseline proven across multiple client estates, not one-off fixes
- Audit and compliance readiness, mapped to recognised frameworks
Who It's For
- Organisations running production workloads on Microsoft Azure
- Teams under cyber-insurance or regulatory pressure to evidence a secure platform
- Platform and security teams that want a policy-enforced baseline, not manual clean-up
- Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) standardising Azure hardening across many subscriptions and tenants
How to Start
Most engagements begin with the free audit and go no further until you have seen where you stand.
Posture Audit
Free
A review of your Microsoft Defender for Cloud posture across your Azure subscriptions, followed by a call to talk through what matters most.
- An export of your Secure Score and your standing against the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark
- The benchmark most relevant to your business and obligations, identified with you
- A conversation about your highest-level priorities and what fixing them would involve
No cost, no obligation - we onboard a limited number of new estates each month, and return your findings within 5 working days. Requires read access to your Azure subscriptions.
Roadmap
from £4,500 / $5,800
The implementation plan the audit does not give you - what to harden, in what order, and what it takes across subscriptions.
- Identity, network, data, and workload controls reviewed against your target baseline
- Public exposure, privileged access, and secrets management assessed across subscriptions
- A sequenced remediation plan with dependencies, effort estimates, and risks - yours to act on with us or without us
Landing Zone & Guardrails Sprint
from £12,000 / $15,400
A fixed-scope sprint that stands up a governed Microsoft Azure foundation - a Cloud Adoption Framework landing zone with identity, network, and policy guardrails, defined as Terraform.
- A Cloud Adoption Framework-aligned landing zone built with Terraform and Azure Verified Modules
- Azure Policy guardrails, RBAC, and a management-group structure that enforce the baseline and prevent drift
- Documented infrastructure-as-code and runbooks, so the foundation is repeatable and maintainable across subscriptions
The governed foundation new workloads and remediation build on.
Fixed-Scope Implementation
from £20,000 / $25,600
A fixed-price, fixed-scope engagement that brings your Azure estate up to the agreed benchmark.
- Identity, network, data, and workload controls hardened to the target baseline
- Remediation delivered against the agreed scope, with progress tracked throughout
- Evidence prepared for audit and independent verification
Guarantee: Defender for Cloud Secure Score to the agreed target, or we keep working free.
Continuous Evidence
from £3,500 / $4,500
An ongoing retainer that keeps your Azure posture aligned and your audit and insurance evidence current and submittable as your estate changes.
- A fixed amount of expert time each month, spent on the highest-priority security work
- Evidence kept current and submittable, with drift caught before an auditor sees it
- A forward plan of security initiatives, reprioritised every month
Month one: a posture baseline and a first evidence pack.
Engagement Model
A free posture audit, then a fixed-fee roadmap, a fixed-scope remediation, and an optional ongoing retainer. Productised and outcome-based - never day rates. And it is guaranteed: we take your Microsoft Defender for Cloud Secure Score to the agreed target, or we keep working at no extra charge until we do.
Pricing: Roadmap from £4,500 / $5,800 - larger engagements are tailored to scope.
We govern the AI we deliver with
This work is delivered AI-accelerated, so AI tooling reads configuration and log data from your estate along the way. It is fair to ask how that is governed - and the answer is published: which providers we use and on what commercial terms, what client data never reaches a model, that a named architect signs off every output, and that AI tooling holds no standing write access to client systems.
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Find out where you stand, free
Most engagements start with a no-cost posture audit against the baselines that matter to you. If a fixed-fee roadmap is the right next step, we'll say so - and if it isn't, we'll say that too.