Azure Hardening

Baseline configuration guidance the operator hands to a blue team standing up or remediating an Azure subscription. Microsoft’s own Cloud Adoption Framework carries the reference architecture; the CIS benchmarks fill in the per-service hardening detail. Azure Policy and Defender for Cloud enforce the resulting baseline.

References

• CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark

• Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, security

• Azure Security Benchmark

• Azure Defend for the runtime monitoring side.