Azure Security Benchmark
What is Azure Security Benchmark?
Microsoft Azure cloud security best practices and controls. It comprises 54 controls organised across 16 domains, and applies in International.
How Azure Security Benchmark maps to other frameworks
All 54 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 16 domains Azure Security Benchmark groups its controls into
Frameworks that share controls with Azure Security Benchmark
Each of these has at least one control mapped to a control in Azure Security Benchmark. The number is how many Azure Security Benchmark controls are shared, counted from the mapping graph.
Implementation guides for frameworks that overlap Azure Security Benchmark
Where Azure Security Benchmark overlaps with the standards you already hold
What Azure Security Benchmark means in your sector
What Azure Security Benchmark means for your job
Questions people ask about Azure Security Benchmark
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Query Azure Security Benchmark programmatically
Azure Security Benchmark, its 54 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
Azure Security Benchmark API reference and MCP config →What Azure Security Benchmark requires, control by control
How much of another standard Azure Security Benchmark already covers
Each crosswalk is judged control by control, and the mappings that were rejected are kept alongside the ones that held.
- ACSC Essential Eight to Azure Security Benchmark crosswalk
- ANSSI Guide d'hygiene informatique (42 mesures, v2.0) to Azure Security Benchmark crosswalk
- Azure Security Benchmark to APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) System crosswalk
- ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents to Azure Security Benchmark crosswalk
- Australia Consumer Data Right - Banking (CDR) to Azure Security Benchmark crosswalk
- AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar to Azure Security Benchmark crosswalk
- Azure Security Benchmark to C5 (Germany) crosswalk
- CFTC System Safeguards (17 CFR 37, 38, 39, 49) to Azure Security Benchmark crosswalk
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