Bechtle Azure Secure By Design

For organizations leveraging Azure at scale and want to ensure their environment is built and secured as per best practices. Bechtle offers a comprehensive hands-on review of your Azure architecture, assessing its alignment with Microsoft’s best-practice “Secure by Design” and “Landing Zone” Framework. This service provides an expert evaluation focused on security and governance, ensuring your Azure environment is optimized and built to meet enterprise-grade standards.

Azure Secure by Design
Azure Secure by Design is a core principle that Microsoft applies to its cloud services, including Azure, to ensure that security is integrated into every stage of the software development lifecycle. This approach emphasizes building security features and safeguards into products and services from the very beginning rather than adding them as an afterthought. It is part of Microsoft's broader Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) and reflects a proactive stance to mitigate risks.
An Azure Landing Zone Secure by Design Review refers to an evaluation process aimed at ensuring that an Azure Landing Zone is designed and implemented with strong security principles and best practices.

What is an Azure Landing Zone?
An Azure Landing Zone is a foundational framework or architecture for deploying workloads into Azure. It provides a secure, scalable, and well-governed environment for applications. Landing zones are built to support cloud adoption strategies in alignment with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure (CAF).

Bechtle Secure by Design Review Overview
The Secure by Design Review focuses on evaluating and validating that the Azure Landing Zone adheres to security principles, best practices, and governance policies from the outset. It ensures the environment is built with security embedded into its core, reducing risks and vulnerabilities

Secure by Design Review Process

• 1. Assessment
  Review the Azure Landing Zone architecture to identify security gaps or risks.
  
• 2. Analysis
  Evaluate configurations, policies, and tools against Azure best practices and benchmarks.
  
• 3. Recommendations
  Provide actionable recommendations for remediation and optimization to meet security and governance requirements.
  
• 4. Implementation Guidance(Separate Charged work if needed)
  Assist in implementing recommended changes, such as enabling services, enforcing policies, or configuring security tools.
  
• 5. Validation
  Reassess and validate the Azure Landing Zone after changes are applied to ensure compliance and a strong security posture
  

Benefits of the Review

• Improved Security Posture: Identify and mitigate risks early.
• Compliance Assurance: Align with regulatory and industry standards.
• Resilience: Enhance detection and response to threats.
• Cost Optimisation: Avoid costly security gaps by embedding security from the beginning.
• Operational Efficiency: Enable governance, automation, and consistent security across environments.

The Azure Landing Zone Secure by Design Review ensures your Azure environment is robust, resilient, and aligned with security best practices, enabling secure cloud adoption at scale.