Six stages, from discovery to continuous monitoring.
The same disciplined path every time, whether it's a five-person startup's first production subscription or a regulated enterprise with dozens.
Environment Discovery & Baseline Assessment
A full inventory of your Azure tenant — subscriptions, resource groups, identities, and network topology — assessed against the current CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark to establish where you actually stand today.
Gap Analysis Against Benchmark
Findings are organized by control domain and severity, distinguishing genuinely high-risk misconfigurations from lower-priority hardening opportunities — not every finding deserves the same urgency.
Remediation Roadmap & Prioritization
A sequenced plan for closing the gaps that matter most first, built around your actual change-management constraints rather than an idealized timeline nobody can follow.
Azure Policy & Guardrail Implementation
Preventive guardrails — Azure Policy assignments, resource locks, and conditional access rules — get put in place so that entire categories of misconfiguration become difficult to introduce in the first place.
Continuous Monitoring Goes Live
Real-time drift detection and SOC monitoring activate against your finalized baseline, with alert thresholds tuned to your environment before go-live, not adjusted reactively afterward.
Monthly Compliance Reporting & Review
A standing review of compliance trends, drift events, and any policy exceptions granted during the month — so your baseline evolves deliberately instead of eroding quietly.
Almost never the technical scan. Almost always deciding what the baseline should be.
Running an automated assessment against CIS controls takes hours. Deciding which Level 2 controls are actually worth the operational friction for your specific environment — and getting the right stakeholders to agree — is where a genuine engagement takes real time. We'd rather have that conversation properly than hand over a generic baseline nobody actually signed off on.