Azure Cloud Security Assessment
Identify misconfigurations and risks across your Azure cloud environment.
What this assessment covers.
Azure environments introduce a new category of security risks driven by configuration, identity, and access management. DERISK’s Azure Cloud Security Assessment service evaluates your Azure infrastructure to identify security risks across compute, storage, networking, IAM, and deployed services.
Our testing helps organisations detect misconfigurations, excessive permissions, insecure deployments, and other Azure-specific security weaknesses. We assess Azure Active Directory, resource configurations, network security groups, storage accounts, and key vaults using proven methodologies aligned with recognised cloud security frameworks.
How we test.
A structured, expert-led methodology from initial reconnaissance through to real-time reporting and remediation guidance.
- 01
Azure Architecture Review
We review your Azure architecture — resource groups, virtual networks, subscriptions, and data flows — to understand how your environment is structured and where risks may exist.
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Configuration Assessment
We evaluate Azure configurations against CIS benchmarks and best practices to identify misconfigurations such as public storage accounts, open NSGs, and unencrypted data.
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Security Posture Validation
We validate that security controls — logging, monitoring, encryption, and network controls — are properly enabled and functioning as intended across Azure services.
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Risk Analysis across Azure AD and deployed services
We analyse Azure AD policies, roles, and permissions to identify excessive privileges, unused credentials, and paths to privilege escalation across your Azure services.
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Real-time findings published to the DERISK PTaaS portal
Azure security risks are published live to the PTaaS portal with configuration details and remediation steps for immediate action.
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Reporting & Remediation guidance
You receive a detailed report with configuration analysis, risk-rated findings, and Azure-specific remediation guidance aligned with recognised frameworks.
Why teams choose us.
Expert-led, manually validated, and delivered through the DERISK PTaaS platform for continuous visibility and rapid remediation.
Outstanding Features
- ✓Assessment aligned with recognised Azure security frameworks and best practices
- ✓Real-time visibility into Azure security posture through the DERISK PTaaS platform
- ✓Deep Azure Active Directory and IAM privilege analysis
- ✓Coverage across Azure compute, storage, networking, and key vault services
Why Choose Our Service?
- ▸Azure expertise: Assess Azure environments using proven methodologies and CIS benchmarks
- ▸Configuration-driven security: Identify risks caused by misconfigurations before they become breaches
- ▸Identity & access governance: Review Azure AD policies, privileged access, and permission models
- ▸Azure-native recommendations: Receive remediation guidance aligned with modern Azure architectures and security best practices
Frameworks & standards.
Testing is aligned with industry-recognised frameworks and standards to ensure comprehensive, repeatable coverage.
What you receive.
Everything you need to understand, prioritise, and remediate findings — delivered through the platform with ongoing validation.
Azure Security Assessment questions.
What does an Azure assessment cover?
Entra ID configuration and conditional access, RBAC and privileged role assignment, network security groups and exposure, storage account access, Key Vault policy, logging and Defender coverage, and workload-level configuration.
What access do you need?
A read-only Reader role plus Security Reader at tenant or subscription scope covers configuration review. Any testing that proves exploitability is scoped and agreed separately.
Does Microsoft need to be notified?
Microsoft permits penetration testing of your own Azure resources under its unified engagement rules without prior approval, within defined limits. We confirm current rules and stay inside them as part of scoping.
What are the most common Azure findings?
Over-privileged role assignments and standing admin access, conditional access gaps, publicly reachable storage, secrets outside Key Vault, and diagnostic logging that is either off or going nowhere anyone reads.
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Ready to secure your assets with Azure Security Assessment?
Get in touch with DERISK to schedule an assessment or learn more about how our expert-led testing can strengthen your security posture.
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