Cloud Security& Compliance
Embed security into your cloud environment from the ground up. Continuous visibility, control, and protection - by design.
Security Integrated by Design
We help organisations secure their Azure environments by aligning with Microsoft best practices and industry frameworks. Security is integrated directly into your platform - providing continuous visibility, control, and protection from day one.
Rather than bolting on security after the fact, we embed it into the foundation of your environment, ensuring consistent enforcement of policies and ongoing monitoring of risks as your platform grows.
What We Deliver
Azure Policy (CIS & ASB Aligned)
Azure Policy implementation aligned to CIS benchmarks and the Azure Security Benchmark, enforcing compliance standards automatically across your environment.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Full configuration of Microsoft Defender for Cloud to provide continuous security posture management and advanced threat protection.
Identity Security
MFA enforcement, conditional access policies, and least-privilege access controls protecting users, service identities, and privileged roles.
Threat Detection & Monitoring
Microsoft Sentinel integration for real-time threat detection, alerting, and security event correlation across your Azure environment.
Security Posture Assessments
Structured assessments identifying gaps, misconfigurations, and risks across your environment with clear, prioritised remediation plans.
Compliance & Governance Alignment
Ongoing controls aligned to recognised frameworks, with governance applied consistently across subscriptions as your environment evolves.
Protected as You Scale
Without a structured approach, cloud security becomes reactive and difficult to manage - leaving your environment exposed to misconfigurations, threats, and compliance failures.
We embed security directly into your environment, ensuring consistent enforcement of policies and continuous monitoring of risks. This reduces the likelihood of breaches, simplifies compliance, and provides confidence that your platform is protected as it evolves.
Reduced Breach Risk
Consistent policy enforcement and continuous monitoring reduces the likelihood of security incidents.
Simplified Compliance
Controls aligned to recognised frameworks make compliance straightforward and auditable.
Continuous Visibility
Real-time posture monitoring ensures your platform stays protected as it evolves.
Common Use Cases
Where structured cloud security makes the greatest impact.
Security Posture Assessments
Identify gaps, misconfigurations, and risks across your Azure environment with clear remediation actions.
Compliance Readiness & Alignment
Implement and maintain controls aligned to CIS and Azure Security Benchmark requirements.
Environment Hardening
Strengthen existing deployments by applying security best practices and reducing attack surface.
Identity & Access Control
Enforce least privilege, MFA, and conditional access to protect users and resources across your tenant.
Threat Detection & Monitoring
Enable visibility and real-time alerting using Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel.
Policy & Governance Enforcement
Apply consistent security and compliance rules across subscriptions using Azure Policy.
Frequently asked questions
What clients ask us most often about securing Azure environments.
What does Rosebud's Cloud Security & Compliance service cover?
We cover the full lifecycle of Azure security - identity and access design, policy-based governance, threat detection through Microsoft Defender for Cloud, encryption and key management, network segmentation, and continuous compliance monitoring against recognised standards. The goal is a single, coherent security posture that is enforced automatically by the platform rather than checked manually after the fact.
How is this different from adding security to an existing Azure environment later?
Retrofitted security tends to be inconsistent - controls land on some workloads, get skipped on others, and drift over time. We embed security into the Azure platform itself, so every new subscription and workload inherits the same policies, network controls, and logging by default. It is enforcement through architecture, not periodic audits after deployment.
Which security standards and frameworks do you align to?
We map Azure environments to the frameworks most relevant to each client - typically ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS Benchmarks, the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark, and sector-specific controls such as FCA guidance for financial services or the NCSC Cloud Security Principles for public sector. Alignment is continuous and monitored, not a point-in-time assessment.
How does Microsoft Defender for Cloud fit into what you deliver?
Defender for Cloud is one component of the picture, not the whole answer. We configure it as the unified posture and threat-detection layer across subscriptions - tuning recommendations, enabling Defender plans where they add measurable value, and integrating alerts into your monitoring stack. We will also tell you where Defender alone is not sufficient and what needs to sit alongside it.
What does a typical cloud security engagement look like?
Most engagements open with a posture assessment - a review of the current environment against the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark and your target frameworks - followed by a prioritised remediation roadmap. From there we either deliver the hardening work directly, or hand it over with playbooks so your team can run it. Ongoing monitoring is available through our Managed Cloud service.
How do you keep an Azure environment compliant over time, not just at point of delivery?
Compliance drifts the moment deployment stops. We set up Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud regulatory compliance dashboards, and automated alerting so deviations surface the day they happen, not six months later in an audit. Where appropriate, policies are configured to deny or auto-remediate so non-compliant resources cannot exist in the first place.