47
Misconfigurations
Identified
Entra ID
Hardened as first priority
Conditional access
Policies configured
Defender for Cloud
Enabled and tuned
CIS Azure
Benchmark assessment
Azure Entra ID Security Assessment
Azure security starts with Entra ID (formerly Azure AD). We assess privileged role assignments, Conditional Access policies, PIM configuration, legacy authentication blocking, and administrative account protection. Entra ID misconfigurations are the most common path to full Azure tenant compromise.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Configuration
Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides unified security management and advanced threat protection across Azure workloads. We enable, configure, and tune Defender for Cloud: including Defender for Servers, Defender for Storage, and Defender for SQL: and connect findings to your SOC workflow.
Azure Network Security Assessment
We assess Azure Virtual Network architecture, Network Security Group rules, Azure Firewall configuration, and Private Endpoint vs. public endpoint exposure. Network security misconfigurations in Azure are frequently the second stage in attacks that begin with identity compromise.
CIS Azure Foundations Benchmark
We assess your Azure environment against the CIS Foundations Benchmark: covering identity, security center, storage accounts, database services, logging and monitoring, networking, and virtual machines: and produce a prioritized remediation plan with implementation guidance.
Azure Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS
Azure has native compliance tooling: Azure Policy, Azure Blueprints, and regulatory compliance dashboards in Defender for Cloud. We configure these tools to monitor compliance continuously and produce the evidence artifacts your auditors require for SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.
Azure Landing Zone Security Review
Azure Landing Zones establish the architectural foundation for enterprise Azure deployments. We review Landing Zone configurations against Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework security design principles and identify deviations that create risk before workloads are migrated.
What Makes Us Different From Others
- Microsoft Certified Cybersecurity Architect Our team holds the Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert certification. We assess Azure at the architectural level, not just the checklist level.
- Entra ID + Azure Resource Security Together Identity and infrastructure security in Azure are inseparable. We assess both simultaneously so attack chains crossing the identity-infrastructure boundary are identified.
- Defender for Cloud Optimization Most Azure environments have Defender for Cloud partially enabled with default configurations. We tune it to generate actionable alerts relevant to your environment.
- Hybrid Environment Experience Most enterprise Azure deployments are hybrid. We have deep experience with hybrid identity, hybrid networking, and the specific security challenges that arise at the boundary between on-premises and Azure.
- Compliance Evidence Automation We configure Azure Policy and compliance dashboards to generate continuous compliance evidence: reducing audit preparation from weeks to hours.
Our AWS environment had grown organically for three years and nobody had ever done a security review. garrisonOne found 47 misconfigurations in a single assessment: public S3 buckets, overly permissive IAM roles, unencrypted data at rest. Everything was remediated in six weeks and we passed our SOC 2 cloud controls section without a single finding.
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Technology / SaaS
SaaS Startup — AWS Security Hardening
A seed-stage SaaS startup had customer data in a public S3 bucket. garrisonOne conducted a full AWS security assessment against CIS benchmarks and hardened the environment in 4 weeks.
3
Public S3 buckets closed
19
Overprivileged IAM roles fixed
100%
Security review passed
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Related Services: Cloud Security | AWS Security | M365 Security | Entra ID Services
Frequently asked questions
What are the most common Azure security misconfigurations?
The most common Azure security misconfigurations are: excessive Entra ID role assignments (especially Global Administrator), Conditional Access policies with broad exceptions, storage accounts with public blob access enabled, missing Azure Defender coverage, Network Security Groups with overly permissive inbound rules, missing audit logging, and lack of PIM for privileged role activation.
What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud?
Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly Azure Security Center and Azure Defender) is Microsoft's unified cloud security posture management and workload protection platform. It provides security recommendations, secure score, regulatory compliance dashboards, and advanced threat protection for Azure, AWS, and GCP workloads from a single console.
What is the difference between Azure AD and Microsoft Entra ID?
Microsoft Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), rebranded in 2023 as part of Microsoft's broader Entra identity portfolio. The product capabilities are the same: cloud identity, SSO, MFA, conditional access, and PIM. The name change reflects Microsoft's expansion of identity and access capabilities beyond the original Azure AD scope.
How does Azure handle the shared responsibility model?
Like AWS, Azure operates under the shared responsibility model. Microsoft is responsible for security of the cloud infrastructure. Customers are responsible for their data, identities, applications, and operating systems. Azure provides extensive tooling: Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Azure Policy: to help customers fulfill their side of the responsibility.
What is Azure Sentinel?
Microsoft Sentinel (now Microsoft Sentinel within the Microsoft Defender portal) is Microsoft's cloud-native SIEM and SOAR platform. It collects security logs from Azure, Microsoft 365, and third-party sources, applies analytics rules for threat detection, and enables automated response through playbooks. It is the primary security operations platform for Microsoft-centric environments.
How long does an Azure security assessment take?
A focused Azure security assessment covering Entra ID, network security, Defender for Cloud, and compliance typically takes one to two weeks for a single-tenant environment. Complex hybrid or multi-tenant environments take two to four weeks.
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