Independent Azure assessment
API Edge Architecture Review
An independent, fixed-scope review of the Azure services that stand between your APIs and the internet: APIM, Front Door, Application Gateway, WAF, DNS, TLS, and Private Link, assessed as one topology with one set of owners. For teams that want the edge design settled before a migration, a launch, or a pentest report settles it for them.
Who this is for
- → Platform and API teams that own APIM, Front Door, or Application Gateway and the WAF policies in front of them
- → Teams planning an APIM v2 migration and the networking rebuild it drags along
- → Organisations that must show who can reach which API, from where, and how it is logged
Typical triggers
- → A classic APIM tier is heading for retirement and v2 forces networking decisions
- → WAF exclusions piled up and a security review wants each one justified
- → A pentest flagged the API perimeter
- → Partners or AI workloads need API access without widening the exposure
What we review
- → Edge topology: what Front Door, Application Gateway, APIM, and the WAF each contribute, and where layers overlap
- → APIM: tier fit, networking mode, products, subscriptions, policy structure
- → WAF: rule sets, exclusion governance, false-positive handling, logging
- → TLS and certificates: issuance, rotation, ownership across the chain
- → Private connectivity: Private Link, DNS, internal exposure paths
- → Observability: whether the logs can answer who called what, and when
What you receive
- → A reviewed edge topology with a target pattern and the reasoning behind it
- → WAF exclusion governance with owners and review dates
- → TLS and certificate lifecycle notes
- → A sequenced APIM migration plan when a migration is in scope
- → Findings ranked by risk and a remediation roadmap
Typically 1 to 2 weeks, fixed scope and fixed fee.
How it works
- 1. Intake call to fix scope, access, and time zones
- 2. Read-only review of evidence and architecture
- 3. Remote working sessions with your teams
- 4. Findings, roadmap, and executive readout
- 5. Optional follow-up support
We work on technical architecture, cloud evidence, and remediation roadmaps. Legal interpretation and regulatory sign-off remain with your risk, compliance, or legal teams.
Bring a decision you need to defend later.
A short intake call fixes scope, access, and dates across time zones. You receive a written proposal with a fixed fee before anything starts. We run one or two assessments at a time; dates are agreed together with scope.
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