The Challenge
To enhance their cloud security and detection capabilities, our client was looking for a partner to deliver advanced cloud security consultancy and detection engineering services during the design and implementation of a new Microsoft Azure-based data platform.
The Solution
Bridewell deployed senior cloud security specialists with deep expertise in identity management, network security, and threat detection. These capabilities were critical to the client’s environment and underpinned the following activities::
- Security Strategy Alignment: Translating Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark controls into actionable configurations, ensuring consistency across federated teams while maintaining central governance and harmonised security standards.
- Technical Security Support: Reviewing design artifacts against the Azure Well-Architected Framework and validating configurations pre–go-live, ensuring robust assurance during major platform deployments.
- Engineering Delivery: Implementing advanced conditional access policies, password-less authentication, and secure remote access strategies. All of these were key priorities for our client’s identity and access management objectives.
- Detection & Response: Developing custom detections using KQL, onboarding data sources, and creating automated remediation runbooks within Microsoft Sentinel, demonstrating how surge capacity can strengthen our client’s threat detection and response capabilities during peak demand.
The Results
Bridewell delivered a resilient cloud security architecture and operational readiness for our client, improving security posture, enabling scalable growth, and enhancing threat detection capabilities. This engagement exemplifies how Bridewell supports complex, federated organisations like our client’s, providing flexible, expert-led security engineering across identity, network, and detection domains while enabling both strategic projects and BAU operations.
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