Identity is the gateway to every service you run. Microsoft Entra ID controls who gets into everything. But most organisations set it up once and move on. Configuration drifts. Policies get exceptions. Risks accumulate quietly. Our Microsoft Entra Assessment is an expert-led, non-intrusive review of your Entra environment, delivering a clear picture of where you stand, what needs fixing, and what to prioritise first.
The organisations that get identity security right aren’t necessarily the ones with the biggest budgets. They’re the ones who know exactly where they stand. If you’re not sure yours does, these are the signs.
Identity security isn’t a one-time setting. Each new role, app, and policy exception nudges your posture out of alignment, while new features and evolving threats reshape the risk underneath you. The drift is invisible, until an audit catches it, or an attacker does.
Over-provisioned admin roles are among the most common identity risks, and the most avoidable. Each unnecessary privileged account is one more path to full compromise. If you can’t account for who has elevated access and why, that’s the gap to close first.
“We think it’s fine” won’t satisfy an auditor or an insurer. When they ask about your identity controls, you need documented evidence, not assumptions. An independent assessment gives you a clear record of your posture, and a remediation plan to close any gaps
You’re already paying for Microsoft’s most powerful identity controls. If they’re half-configured or sitting idle, you’re carrying the cost without the protection. An assessment shows you exactly what’s active, what isn’t, and where you’re leaving value and security on the table.
A Microsoft Entra assessment covers more ground than most people expect. We look at every layer where configuration drift, over-provisioning, or legacy settings tend to accumulate, and tell you exactly what we find.
We analyse your Entra tenant settings against Microsoft and industry best-practice baselines, surfacing misconfigurations, legacy settings, and configuration drift that increases identity risk over time.
A clear view of what’s working and where gaps are. We assess how access is managed and governed across your Entra platform, whether security features are correctly configured and aligned with how your organisation actually operates.
Entra-registered applications accumulate over time. We review permissions and configurations to surface anything excessive, outdated, or inconsistent with your current security posture, including legacy app registrations that may have been long forgotten.
We review privileged role assignments and standing administrative access to identify over-provisioning and opportunities to apply least-privilege principles. Reducing unnecessary standing privilege is one of the highest-return hardening actions available to any organisation.
A security assessment can sound disruptive. It isn’t. From the first call to the final report, the entire engagement is designed to fit around your business, no changes to your environment and no surprises along the way.
We agree scope, objectives, and access requirements upfront. You know exactly what we're reviewing before we start, no surprises.
We configure read-only, least-privileged access to your Entra tenant. We make no changes to your environment. The assessment is non-intrusive by design.
We run automated tooling against your tenant, benchmarking your configuration against established security baselines, surfacing misconfigurations and gaps quickly and consistently.
Our consultants go beyond the automated output, applying human judgement to validate risk, understand context, and identify what tooling alone would miss. This is where readiness gaps become clear.
Findings are reviewed and prioritised for accuracy and relevance. We give you a considered view of what actually matters, not a raw list of alerts requiring interpretation.
A clear written report with executive summary and prioritised recommendations, followed by a live walkthrough. Your team leaves with the understanding they need to act confidently.
Most Microsoft-focused providers treat identity assessments as a licensing exercise, an automated checklist & report run by people whose primary job is selling more seats. CloudGuard is an independent security consultancy that take their time to assess and consult on the findings. Our recommendations reflect what your environment needs, not what maps to a software bundle. Where others deliver findings and move on, we deliver something you can act on, prioritised, in plain language, usable whether you remediate with us or in-house.
You don’t need to be dealing with an active incident or a looming audit to get value from this. Most of our customers come to us because they want a documented, defensible view of their identity security posture.
CISO, Head of Security, IAM Lead, or IT Ops Head, managing Microsoft Entra ID as your primary identity platform for 100+ users across cloud and hybrid environments.
You’re in a regulated sector, finance, legal, healthcare, public sector, where identity governance is scrutinised externally.
Your Entra configuration likely hasn’t had a formal review since initial setup, and you want a clear picture of where things stand before rolling out Conditional Access or PIM.
CloudGuard is embedded in the cybersecurity industry – recognised, accredited, and trusted to protect real organisations every day.
No. Once our audit permissions are applied, we use read-only, least-privileged access throughout, we review your configuration, we don’t change it. There’s no impact on users, no changes to your environment, and no downtime. Your business continues operating normally from start to finish.
The active assessment phase typically completes within a few days once access is established. From scoping to report delivery, most engagements run two to three days. We agree a clear timeline upfront. If you have a specific deadline, an audit, a board review, an insurance renewal, tell us early and we’ll structure around it.
An in-depth report capturing every finding from the assessment. It opens with an executive summary and a clear list of prioritised actions, written in plain language for non-technical stakeholders, board, insurers, auditors. From there it goes deep: a full technical review across your entire Entra ID estate. Every finding comes with a prioritised recommendation your IT or security team can act on directly. We walk you through it in a live session so everything lands clearly before any remediation begins.
Secure Score is a useful internal health check, but it measures what Microsoft has instrumented, not necessarily your highest risks. It can’t apply human judgement or contextualise findings against your specific environment. An independent assessment gives you a credible, external view you can present to auditors and insurers with confidence.
That’s your call entirely. The report is yours, take it in-house if you prefer. If you want CloudGuard to implement the fixes, that’s exactly what CloudGuard is for, a hands-on engagement where we apply the changes, tune the policies, and switch on the controls. No pressure to continue, but the path is there if you need it.
The Entra Secure Assess is a fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement. You’ll know exactly what you’re getting, what it costs and what happens next before you commit to anything.
