The same root cause, incident after incident.
Why CRBG works only in Azure, and why we treat configuration drift as seriously as an active attack.
Eight years as a cloud security architect, cleaning up after the fact.
Simone Achterberg spent eight years as a cloud security architect for large enterprises running mission-critical workloads on Azure. Called in after an incident, she found the same story more often than not: not a novel exploit, not a nation-state actor, but a storage account whose public access setting had been flipped for a one-time debugging session and never flipped back, or a role assignment granted for a project that ended a year earlier and was never revoked.
Nobody was watching, because watching wasn't anybody's actual job.
Every organization she worked with had a security team, and every security team was stretched across identity, endpoints, applications, and incident response. Continuous configuration monitoring — genuinely continuous, not a quarterly audit — kept losing the competition for attention, because nothing was on fire until suddenly it was.
She founded CRBG in 2017 to make that continuous watching the entire job, for one platform, done properly.
Depth over breadth, on purpose.
Plenty of MSSPs cover every major cloud platform at once. We made a different bet: that genuine mastery of Azure's specific identity model, policy engine, and resource hierarchy is more valuable to a client than shallow coverage spread across three providers. Every engineer here works exclusively in Azure. None of them are also half-learning AWS on the side.
Four things that haven't changed since 2017.
A baseline is only useful if drift gets caught.
Defining a secure configuration standard is the easy part. The value is entirely in the continuous monitoring that catches the moment reality stops matching that standard.
We remediate, not just report.
A monthly PDF listing misconfigurations that never get fixed isn't a security program. Every finding comes with a remediation path, and we'll implement it directly when asked.
Alert fatigue is a design failure, not a client problem.
If a client's team starts ignoring our alerts, that's on our tuning, not their attention span. We'd rather under-alert on genuinely low-risk findings than train anyone to tune us out.
We stay exclusively in Azure.
No multi-cloud dilution. Every engineer's expertise is deep in one platform, not split across three.
Meet the team applying this daily: Our Team, or see exactly how an engagement starts on the Methodology page.