CREST-Certified Azure Cloud Security Review for UK Businesses

A single-subscription review (≤10 services, ≤50 resources) typically takes 4-5 working days. Mid-market multi-subscription Azure estates take 7-10 days. Enterprise multi-tenant Entra ID environments take 10-15 days. Test duration is determined during scoping based on subscription count and service breadth.

Single-subscription engagements range from £4,500 to £8,000. Multi-subscription (most commonly commissioned) £8,000 to £14,000. Enterprise £14,000 to £22,000. All quotes are fixed-price after scoping with no day-rate surprises. The day rate for CREST-certified testers is £1,100–£1,400 per day.

Yes. Every Azure engagement includes a control-by-control CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark v3.0 assessment, plus the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark (MCSB). Findings are tagged to specific CIS control IDs so your audit team can submit evidence directly.

Yes. Entra ID is the highest-impact attack surface in modern Azure tenants. We audit role assignments, Conditional Access policies, MFA enforcement, guest user permissions, OAuth application consent, and hybrid AD synchronisation security.

Read-only by default. We use the Azure-built Reader and SecurityReader roles for discovery and the CIS audit phase. Manual exploitation phases run only with explicit written authorisation per resource type, in agreed maintenance windows, with full audit-log capture.

Yes. AKS reviews include control-plane configuration, RBAC scrutiny, Azure CNI network policies, pod identity boundaries (Managed Identity), node IAM trust, container image registry security, and pod-to-node escape paths.

They overlap heavily. An Azure cyber security review benchmarks your tenant against the CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark, then manually exploits the weaknesses it finds. An Azure penetration test is the manual exploitation stage. We deliver both together, so you get configuration assurance and proof of what an attacker could actually reach.

Yes. Azure cyber security review, Azure cloud security review and Azure configuration review all describe the same engagement: a CREST-certified assessment of your Azure tenant against the CIS Foundations Benchmark, combined with manual exploitation across Entra ID, RBAC, storage and networking. The name varies by buyer; the methodology does not.

Multi-subscription testing is fully supported. We map the entire Management Group structure, evaluate Azure Policy assignments, audit cross-subscription RBAC, review Azure Lighthouse delegations, and test resource lock effectiveness.

Yes. Pre-deployment IaC review is offered as a separate engagement or bundled with cloud testing. We review Bicep, ARM templates, Terraform / OpenTofu, and Pulumi for misconfigurations, secret leakage, and policy violations before the resources hit your Azure tenant.

Yes. Every finding ships with prioritised remediation guidance and example Bicep / Terraform / ARM patches. For high-severity findings we include direct engineer access via our portal during remediation.

Yes. We audit Defender for Cloud coverage, recommendation tuning, regulatory compliance score, and alert routing to Sentinel or third-party SIEM. Coverage gaps are the most common Azure finding.

All Azure testers are vetted UK or international engineers. Relevant certifications: CREST CRT and CCT INF, AZ-500 (Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate), OSCP, OSCE. SC-cleared testers are available for public-sector and regulated-financial engagements.

Yes. Standard NDA before any technical detail is shared, and we operate under a project-specific master agreement that includes data handling, deliverable IP, and breach notification clauses. Custom MSAs and AUP terms are accepted for enterprise and public-sector clients.

Yes. Alongside the CIS Foundations Benchmark we review architecture-level controls: network segmentation, the identity boundary in Entra ID, multi-tenant isolation, and key management. We benchmark the tenant against Microsoft Secure Future Initiative best practices and flag design weaknesses a configuration scan alone would miss.

Both are secure when configured correctly; most incidents come from customer-side misconfiguration, not the platform. If you run workloads on both, we test each against its own CIS Foundations Benchmark. See our AWS cloud security review for the equivalent assessment.