A new Azure subscription is permissive by default. This checklist covers 88 CIS-based controls across identity, Conditional Access, RBAC, logging, networking, storage, compute, databases, Key Vault, and Defender for Cloud — so you can harden the whole estate, not just the easy parts.
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What's inside
Every control is plain-language, prioritized by severity, and paired with how to verify it and how to fix it. Organized into 10 sections.
Real sample controls
These are taken directly from the checklist — no paraphrasing.
Require multi-factor authentication for every user.
Enforce MFA on every Global Administrator account.
Block legacy authentication protocols.
Require MFA for all users via Conditional Access.
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Why teams use Strondex
Built by security professionals
Controls drawn from CIS benchmarks, framework requirements, and real-world assessment findings.
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Plain-language steps you can action yourself — without the $300/hr engagement.
Honest scope
Exactly 88 controls. No inflated counts, no fabricated reviews — see the samples above.
Yes. Identity (Entra ID) and Conditional Access together make up 21 of the 88 controls, alongside RBAC, logging, networking, storage, compute, databases, Key Vault, and Defender for Cloud.
Yes. The 88 controls follow CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations benchmark guidance, written in plain language with verification and remediation steps.
Yes. A dedicated Defender for Cloud and security-posture domain helps you confirm Defender is configured to enforce the controls the rest of the checklist defines.
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