Security
Azure security consultancy
North Peak Cloud hardens your Azure estate and keeps it audit-ready using the Microsoft security stack. We deploy and tune Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Sentinel, tighten Entra identity and Conditional Access, and put guardrails in place as code so security holds as you scale. Whether you are meeting ISO 27001, NIS2 or customer due-diligence, we make your Azure security defensible rather than hopeful.
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud posture management
- Microsoft Sentinel SIEM deployment and tuning
- Microsoft Entra identity hardening and Conditional Access
- Security guardrails as code (Azure Policy)
- Audit-ready evidence for ISO 27001 / NIS2
AI on Azure, done right.
AI-ready foundations
Azure AI Foundry hubs and projects, private networking to your models, identity and policy guardrails — the secure base every AI workload needs before it scales.
Cost control for AI & cloud
FinOps for the AI era: token and PTU strategy, model right-sizing, reservations and anomaly detection. We find the waste your invoice is hiding.
Platform engineering
Landing zones as code in Bicep or Terraform, GitOps, policy-as-code and golden paths. Enterprise-grade Azure delivered in weeks, not quarters.
Security & responsible AI
Content filtering, evaluations, data-residency and audit-ready guardrails aligned to the EU AI Act and ISO 42001 — trustworthy AI you can put in front of customers.
Migration & modernisation
Cloud Adoption Framework migrations and Well-Architected reviews that leave you cheaper, faster and ready for AI — not just lifted-and-shifted.
Senior engineers, direct
You work with the architect who does the build — no account managers, no offshore hand-off, no gatekeeping. Answers in plain English.
Three ways to start.
An AI-ready Azure landing zone, delivered in weeks.
- Azure AI Foundry hub & projects
- Private networking to model endpoints
- Identity, RBAC & Azure Policy guardrails
- Responsible-AI baseline & content filters
- Infrastructure as code you own
- Handover & runbook
One AI use case, production-grade, on AI Foundry.
- RAG, agent or document-intelligence build
- Evaluation & guardrails wired in
- CI/CD and observability
- Cost model before you commit
- Knowledge transfer to your team
- Reusable accelerator IP
Stop AI and cloud bill shock before it starts.
- Token / PTU vs pay-as-you-go strategy
- Model right-sizing & reservations
- Cost anomaly detection
- Classic Azure estate optimisation
- Monthly reporting & reviews
- Gain-share option available
for AI.
Asked and answered.
What is the difference between Defender for Cloud and Sentinel?+
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is cloud security posture management and workload protection — it finds and helps fix misconfigurations and threats across your Azure resources. Microsoft Sentinel is a SIEM — it collects and correlates security signals to detect and respond to incidents. They complement each other.
How do I make my Azure estate audit-ready?+
Baseline against CIS or NCSC guidance, enforce it with Azure Policy as code, monitor drift with Defender for Cloud, and keep audit evidence automatically. North Peak Cloud sets this up so compliance is continuous rather than a scramble before each audit.