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XTIVIA’s CIS Azure Benchmark Assessment audits your environment against CIS standards to close security gaps and prove compliance.
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XTIVIA: A Proud CIS Member and Microsoft Business Partner – Delivering assessments built on globally recognized, industry-standard blueprints.
While Microsoft provides cloud security, continuous configuration management is essential to secure your cloud assets. Our assessment audits your specific Azure subscriptions and resource configurations against the prescriptive, industry-standard CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark to manage risk and maintain integrity. For specialized services such as databases, we dynamically incorporate relevant, additional CIS Benchmarks to ensure full coverage of your unique environment.
Why This Matters: 3 Pillars of Security & Compliance
- Regulatory Acceleration: Provides the verified evidence required for compliance with SOC2, HIPAA, and FedRAMP by mapping directly to global CIS standards.
- Eliminate Identity Drift: Identifies over-privileged accounts and “Ghost” users before they become a liability in complex Azure environments, ensuring “Least Privilege” through RBAC.
- Automated Defensibility: Moves your organization from manual “best guesses” to a framework-driven security posture, aligning with the CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations (5.0.0), recognized by auditors worldwide. We provide a prioritized remediation roadmap and guidance on integrating results into Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates to prevent drift proactively.
Assessment Focus: Core Domains
Our deep-dive audit covers critical services identified in the latest Azure Benchmarks, simplified into three core areas:
- Identity & Access Control: Auditing Azure AD (Entra ID) settings, enforcing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), ensuring Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for privileged roles, and securing Non-Human Identities (Service Principals and Managed Identities).
- Data & Infrastructure Hardening: Verifying VM disk encryption, restricting public IP addresses where unnecessary, ensuring secure transfer (HTTPS) and access restrictions for Storage and Database services (SQL, MariaDB), and auditing Azure Key Vault configurations for proper secret rotation and access controls.
- Monitoring & Network Defense: Auditing Network Security Groups (NSGs) to block high-risk ports and verifying correct configuration of Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Log Analytics to capture security telemetry.
Secure Your Azure Environment Today
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Action: Schedule your Microsoft Azure CIS Benchmark Assessment today.
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