Migrating to Microsoft Azure does not magically make your data immune to hackers. The hypervisor is secured by Microsoft, but the Identity and Access Management (IAM), operating system patches, and application security remains solely your responsibility. We govern and heavily encrypt your entire IaaS stack.
IAM Hardening and Least-Privilege Enforcement
The most common entry point for cloud breaches is over-permissioned IAM credentials. We audit every AWS IAM role and Azure RBAC assignment, removing wildcard permissions (Action: "*") and replacing them with scoped policies aligned to actual job function. We enforce MFA on all IAM users and disable root account access keys entirely on AWS accounts.
Service accounts are transitioned to role-based authentication (AWS instance profiles, Azure Managed Identities) so that application credentials are never stored in code repositories — a critical finding in nearly every UAE cloud security audit we conduct.
- IAM permission audit and least-privilege remediation
- Root account lockdown and MFA enforcement
- Managed Identities replacing hardcoded service account credentials
- AWS Organizations SCPs blocking dangerous actions across all accounts
- Azure PIM (Privileged Identity Management) for just-in-time admin access
Network Security and Encryption
Default cloud network configurations are far too permissive. We audit and tighten every Security Group and Network Security Group, closing inbound SSH and RDP to the public internet entirely — replacing with AWS Systems Manager Session Manager or Azure Bastion for administrative access. All inter-service traffic is routed through private VPC/VNet endpoints, never traversing the public internet.
Storage accounts and RDS instances are encrypted with Customer Managed Keys (CMK) rotated every 90 days, and we enable AWS CloudTrail or Azure Diagnostic Logs across all services, feeding into a centralised SIEM for anomaly detection.
Continuous Compliance Scanning
Cloud configurations drift over time as developers make ad-hoc changes. We deploy AWS Security Hub with CIS Benchmark controls enabled, or Azure Security Centre with Defender for Cloud, sending real-time alerts when a security group is opened to 0.0.0.0/0 or public blob access is enabled on a storage account.
Weekly compliance reports are sent to your IT manager and CISO, showing the current security score and any open findings ranked by severity. For NESA-regulated entities, we map these findings directly to the NESA IA control framework for audit evidence.