Establish a secure Azure baseline aligned to CIS guidance with practical remediation, governance, and evidence-ready reporting.
The CIS Microsoft Azure Benchmark provides prescriptive guidance for establishing a secure configuration baseline for Microsoft Azure. It is designed as a foundation-level set of recommendations to help organisations adopting Azure improve their configuration posture.
LW IT Solutions delivers an Azure foundations assessment that produces actionable output - not generic advice. We review your Azure subscription/tenant configuration posture against CIS benchmark-aligned categories, identify gaps and risks, and create a prioritised remediation backlog. Where required, we also implement improvements through controlled change (pilot-first), and provide an evidence pack suitable for audits, assurance, and internal governance.
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Service Overview
Highlights
- Aligned to the CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark
- Covers tenant, subscription, identity, networking, and governance controls
- Risk-based prioritisation suitable for live production environments
- Supports landing zone and platform operating models
- Outputs designed for audit, assurance, and executive reporting
Business Benefits
- Clear visibility of Azure configuration posture aligned to CIS benchmark guidance
- Prioritised actions that focus on material risk rather than blanket changes
- Reduced exposure through defined guardrails at tenant and subscription level
- Improved audit and assurance readiness with evidence-backed outputs
- A practical path to improving governance without disrupting workloads
Typical use cases
- Preparing Azure environments for security audits or assurance reviews
- Validating landing zones or platform baselines against CIS guidance
- Reducing configuration drift across subscriptions and environments
- Improving governance after rapid Azure adoption or expansion
- Building a structured roadmap for Azure platform hardening
Objectives & deliverables
What Success Looks Like
- Baseline Azure configuration against CIS benchmark guidance
- Identify gaps that materially increase platform and workload risk
- Translate benchmark recommendations into practical remediation actions
- Support safe adoption of guardrails without breaking delivery
- Provide defensible evidence for ongoing Azure governance
What You Get
- CIS-aligned Azure foundations assessment summary with scope and assumptions
- Detailed findings mapped to CIS benchmark control areas
- Prioritised remediation backlog with dependencies and impact notes
- Decision log for accepted, deferred, or excluded recommendations
- Optional evidence pack for implemented guardrails and configuration changes
How It Works
- Discover and scope - confirm tenant/subscription layout, in-scope platforms/services, constraints, and success criteria.
- Assess - baseline configuration posture against CIS benchmark-aligned categories relevant to your environment.
- Triage and prioritise - validate findings, map dependencies, and create a practical remediation backlog.
- Remediate (optional) - implement agreed guardrails and configuration improvements through controlled change and validation.
- Evidence and handover - deliver the evidence pack, decision logs, and ongoing governance cadence recommendations.
Engagement Options
- Assessment Only - CIS-aligned review with prioritised remediation backlog
- Assessment + Guardrails - Review plus implementation of selected platform controls
- Assessment + Staged Remediation - Assessment followed by phased improvements
Common Bundles
Customers who use this service often bundle with these services
Azure Landing Zones (CAF-aligned)
Build a secure, scalable Azure foundation using CAF-aligned landing zones with clear governance, identity, networking, and management baselines.
Azure Network Architecture (Hub/Spoke, DNS, Private Link)
Azure network architecture services covering hub and spoke design, DNS, routing and Private Link to support secure, scalable connectivity.
Infrastructure as Code (Bicep/Terraform)
Deliver Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code with Bicep or Terraform, reducing drift, improving consistency, and enabling repeatable deployments.
Defender for Cloud (CSPM/CWPP)
Baseline cloud security posture and protect workloads using Microsoft Defender for Cloud, covering CSPM governance, recommendations and targeted workload protection.
Secure Score Assessment & Remediation
Baseline Microsoft Secure Score, prioritise improvement actions, and deliver a staged remediation backlog that drives measurable security posture uplift.
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