Secure Score Optimiser for Azure

Azure Secure Score – Managed Posture & Governance strengthens your cloud security posture by operationalizing Azure Secure Score in Microsoft Defender for Cloud. We baseline your environment (free), implement governance guardrails to prevent drift, and drive measurable improvements with executive reporting and a prioritized remediation backlog.

What’s included:
• Free Baseline Assessment (no‑cost): Tenant‑wide Secure Score snapshot, top recommendations, risk themes, and an executive summary.
• Governance & Guardrails: Azure Policy initiatives and assignments, tagging standards, RBAC hygiene, and Microsoft Entra PIM for time‑bound elevation; exemptions and change control.
• Identity Hardening: MFA/Conditional Access enforcement, break‑glass strategy, least‑privilege access review, privileged role cleanup.
• Platform & Workload Hardening: Defender for Cloud recommendations across compute, storage, databases, and PaaS; encryption, network segmentation (NSG/ASG), private access (Private Link), and secure secrets (Key Vault).
• Automation & Remediation: Policy‑as‑code/Infrastructure‑as‑code (Azure DevOps/GitHub) and playbooks to fix at scale with rollback.
• Monitoring & Reporting: Monthly posture reviews, Secure Score trend lines, policy compliance dashboards, and audit‑ready evidence packs mapped to MCSB—with CIS/ISO/NIST/POPIA overlays as needed.
• Optional Add‑Ons: Microsoft Sentinel use‑case onboarding/tuning, patch & vulnerability cadence reviews, Azure Arc onboarding for hybrid servers/Kubernetes, and Purview data‑governance integration.

How it works:
1) Assess (free baseline) 2) Harden (quick wins + guardrails) 3) Automate (prevent regressions) 4) Manage (monthly reviews & reporting)

Outcomes: Prioritized actions tied to Secure Score impact, MFA and PIM coverage for privileged roles, fewer high‑severity recommendations, improved policy compliance, and auditable, consistent controls.