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Microsoft Azure Services

XDefense provides Microsoft Azure security services to identify configuration risks, excessive permissions, exposed resources, resilience gaps, performance issues, and unnecessary cloud costs.

“Design workloads that achieve business value over time.” - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework

What is a Microsoft Azure Service?

A Microsoft Azure Services is a structured evaluation of your organisation’s Azure architecture, configurations, workloads, security controls, operational practices, and resource usage.

It identifies misconfigurations, excessive permissions, exposed services, resilience gaps, performance issues, governance weaknesses, and unnecessary cloud expenditure.

The assessment provides a risk-prioritised roadmap for improving the security, stability, efficiency, and business value of your Azure environment.

Why Do You Need a Microsoft Azure Service?

  1. Identify Security Misconfiguration: Azure environments can contain excessive permissions, publicly exposed resources, weak network controls, insecure storage, and inconsistent security settings.

  2. Strengthen Identity and Access Security: The assessment helps identify risks within Microsoft Entra ID, privileged accounts, role assignments, multifactor authentication, conditional access, and service identities.

  3. Improve Reliability and Resilience: We evaluate availability, redundancy, backup, disaster recovery, and recovery objectives to determine whether critical workloads can withstand disruption.

  4. Reduce Unnecessary Azure Costs: Unused resources, oversized virtual machines, unsuitable storage tiers, and inefficient configurations can significantly increase cloud expenditure.

  5. Improve Governance and Visibility: A structured assessment helps organisations strengthen subscription management, Azure Policy, tagging, ownership, monitoring, and deployment standards.

  6. Support Compliance Requirements: The assessment helps determine whether Azure controls support applicable regulatory obligations, internal policies, and recognised security frameworks.

When Should You Opt for a Microsoft Azure Service?

  1. Before or After an Azure Migration: Assess migration readiness and verify that migrated workloads are secure, resilient, efficient, and correctly configured.

  2. When Azure Costs Are Increasing: Identify unused, duplicated, underutilised, or oversized resources and opportunities for cost optimisation.

  3. After Major Changes or Rapid Cloud Expansion: New subscriptions, applications, identities, networks, and services may introduce security, performance, and governance risks.

  4. Before an Audit or Following a Security Incident: Identify compliance gaps and determine whether Azure configurations, permissions, or monitoring weaknesses contributed to an incident.

  5. As Part of a Regular Cloud Review: Periodic assessments help organisations continuously improve their Azure security posture, resilience, governance, performance, and cost efficiency.

What We Offer

XDefense performs a comprehensive services of your Microsoft Azure environment based on your architecture, business requirements, risk profile, and operational priorities.


Review & build Azure Landing Zone:

We review & design your Azure Landing Zone, management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, connectivity, workload organisation, scalability, and alignment with business requirements.


IAM Assessment: 

We evaluate Microsoft Entra ID, administrative accounts, privileged access, role assignments, MFA, conditional access, service principals, and managed identities.


Cost and Performance Optimisation:

We identify unnecessary expenditure, underused resources, inefficient storage, workload-sizing issues, performance bottlenecks, and scalability opportunities.


Data Protection and Storage Assessment:

We assess encryption, key management, storage access, database security, backup practices, data exposure, and protection of sensitive information.


Monitoring, Governance, and Compliance:

We evaluate Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerting, automation, Azure Policy, tagging, ownership, deployment standards, and compliance readiness.


Findings and Remediation Roadmap:

We provide risk-ranked findings, supporting evidence, practical remediation guidance, and prioritised improvement actions.

Organisations requiring active validation of cloud vulnerabilities may also consider XDefense’s
Penetration Testing services