Security Service
Azure
Azure security focuses on management groups, RBAC, PIM, network design, and logging. The goal is to detect risks early and control them with guardrails.
Management groups & policies
Baselines and policy sets for subscriptions.
RBAC & PIM
Roles, just-in-time access, least privilege.
Prioritized findings
Risk backlog with owners and deadlines.
Azure security does not replace secure architecture. Without ownership, logging, and change controls, findings stay open and policies fail.
Quick overview
- Continuous protection of subscriptions and workloads.
- Focus on identity, network, logging, and data paths.
- Guardrails instead of point-in-time checks.
- clear structure for subscriptions and roles
- prioritized risks by context
- named owners and SLA tracking
- audit evidence for customers
Fits if you …
- operate multiple subscriptions and teams.
- see RBAC roles grow without control.
- want PIM and access governance guardrails.
- need evidence for access, logging, and hardening.
Not a fit if …
- you cannot access subscriptions or logs.
- ownership and responsibility are unclear.
- you only want a one-off check without operations.
Azure security vs. CSPM vs. cloud pentest
guardrails, operations, risk tracking per subscription.
tool signals and policy checks, not remediation.
point-in-time validation of critical attack paths.
Azure security runs guardrails and operations, CSPM provides signals, and pentests validate targeted risk paths.
Typical use cases
- Multiple subscriptions without clear baselines.
- RBAC roles, service principals, and keys grow unchecked.
- Missing standards for logging and monitoring.
- Exposed storage accounts or public endpoints.
- Weak network segmentation and insecure defaults.
Process & methodology
Subscriptions, roles, logging, data criticality.
RBAC, network, storage, exposure, baselines.
Policies, backlog, deadlines, evidence.
Scope & preparation
- Define subscriptions, management groups, and environments.
- Align RBAC, PIM, roles, and service principals.
- Agree on logging (Activity Logs, Defender, Sentinel).
- Capture critical workloads and data paths.
Execution
- Review RBAC and PIM for least privilege.
- Validate networks, NSGs, and exposure.
- Check storage policies and encryption.
- Prioritize findings into a remediation backlog.
Without ownership and change controls, findings stay open. Guardrails must be integrated into IaC and deployment flows.
Deliverables
- Prioritized findings with owners and deadlines.
- Guardrail catalog (policies, baselines, standards).
- Hardening roadmap and quick wins.
- Evidence for logging, coverage, and exceptions.
Provider selection criteria
- Experience with management groups, RBAC, and PIM.
- Clear risk prioritization for exposure.
- Defensible criteria for data paths and guardrails.
- Access to IaC, policies, and logs.
- Integration with ticketing and change processes.
- Measurable KPIs and reporting cadence.
Next steps
- Inventory subscriptions and owners.
- Define RBAC/PIM standards, logging, and baselines.
- Prioritize and fix top risks.
- Embed policies in IaC and deployments.