Independent Azure assessment
Azure Platform Evidence Review
An independent, fixed-scope review that walks your Azure platform controls back to a reason and forward to a proof: Azure Policy, privileged access, logging, network exposure, backup, and exception handling, each mapped to an owner. Delivered remotely from Brussels, for regulated and platform-heavy teams that answer to DORA, UK operational resilience rules, FINMA, MAS, or a demanding customer security review.
Who this is for
- → Financial and regulated organisations in Europe, the UK, Switzerland, or Singapore running production workloads on Azure
- → Platform and security teams asked to turn architecture reality into evidence a risk function can use
- → Technology risk managers who need an independent baseline before an audit or supervisory interaction
Typical triggers
- → A regulator, auditor, or major customer asked how your Azure controls are evidenced
- → Cloud third-party or outsourcing registers need entries you can defend
- → Policies, tags, and diagnostic settings grew organically and their real coverage is unknown
- → A new CISO or risk owner wants an outside view before signing anything off
What we review
- → Azure Policy: assignment coverage, exemptions, and whether deny effects actually block
- → Privileged access: role assignments, PIM, break-glass accounts, workload identities
- → Logging: diagnostic settings coverage, Log Analytics routing, retention against your obligations
- → Network exposure: public endpoints, Private Link coverage, perimeter services
- → Backup and recovery: coverage, replication targets, evidence of tested restores
- → Data location: where compute, storage, logs, and backups sit, and what leaves the region
- → Exceptions: who owns each deviation, and when it was last reviewed
What you receive
- → Control-to-evidence mapping across Policy, Defender, RBAC, and logging
- → Findings ranked by risk, each with a concrete Azure remediation step
- → A register-ready view of data locations and platform dependencies
- → A remediation roadmap with owners and a realistic sequence
- → An executive summary plus a technical appendix for your engineers
Typically 2 to 3 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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