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# Microsoft Cloud Security & Compliance Review Services

> Scalio Cloud assesses Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 environments against industry frameworks — delivering prioritized, actionable remediation roadmaps.

A security review from Scalio Cloud goes beyond a checklist — we assess your Microsoft environment against industry frameworks, identify real risk, and provide a prioritized remediation roadmap your team can act on immediately. We focus on findings that matter: high-impact gaps with clear ownership and realistic effort estimates, not a 200-page report that lives in a drawer.

## Security review services

**Microsoft Secure Score Review.** Your Secure Score tells part of the story — we tell you the rest. We perform a deep-dive analysis of your Microsoft 365 Secure Score, cut through noise to focus on the highest-impact improvements, and explain exactly what each action means for your actual risk posture rather than just the number.

**Entra ID Security Assessment.** Identity is the most common initial access vector in Microsoft environment compromises. We evaluate your Entra ID configuration against zero-trust best practices, covering MFA coverage and exceptions, conditional access policy gaps and conflicts, privileged access hygiene, service principal and application permission sprawl, and guest account governance.

**Azure Security Review.** We evaluate your Azure environment using Microsoft Defender for Cloud recommendations, CIS Benchmarks for Azure, and your network security posture. We look at what's exposed, what's misconfigured, and what your existing controls are actually catching — and we model the blast radius of the gaps we find.

**Compliance Readiness Assessment.** If you're working toward a compliance certification or preparing for an audit, we perform a structured gap analysis of your Microsoft environment against the relevant framework — SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or NIST 800-53 — and map your existing Microsoft controls to framework requirements so you know exactly where you stand.

## What you receive

Every Scalio Cloud security engagement delivers a consistent, complete set of outputs your team can use immediately:

* **Executive summary** with a current risk posture rating and top-line narrative for leadership and board-level stakeholders
* **Detailed findings report** with severity, impact, and likelihood ratings for every identified gap — cross-referenced to the relevant framework controls
* **Prioritized remediation roadmap** with effort estimates so your team can sequence work by risk reduction per engineering hour
* **Presentation to your security leadership team** to walk through findings, answer questions, and agree on priorities
* **Optional: hands-on remediation sprint** — rather than handing off a report and walking away, we can embed with your team for a focused sprint to address critical findings immediately

## Compliance frameworks

Our assessments are structured around the frameworks your auditors and customers actually care about:

* **SOC 2 Type II** — Trust Services Criteria mapping for Microsoft 365 and Azure environments
* **ISO 27001** — Annex A control gap analysis against your Microsoft cloud footprint
* **NIST 800-53** — Control family assessment for federal and regulated-industry workloads
* **CIS Controls v8** — Implementation group prioritization against Azure and Microsoft 365
* **HIPAA Security Rule** — Administrative, physical, and technical safeguard review for healthcare organizations
* **Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark (MCSB)** — Microsoft's own security baseline aligned to your Defender for Cloud posture

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  After your security review, use Scalio Nexus to continuously monitor for regressions — so your posture improvements stick over time.
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