Four Layers of Preventive Security
Effective prevention requires controls at every layer. Guardrails orchestrates all four for Azure:
Build
Block non-compliant infrastructure before deployment with ARM Template validation. Validate templates and reject resources that don't meet your standards.
Access
Azure Policies with Deny effects block operations at the management group level. Restrict regions, deny services, enforce boundaries across subscriptions.
Config
Subscription and service-level settings that prevent misconfigurations by default. Storage account security, network policies, encryption settings.
Runtime
Continuously monitor and instantly fix misconfigurations that slip through. Auto-remediation runs 24/7 without manual intervention.
Preventive Security capabilities for Azure:
Visualize Preventive Posture
See what your Azure Policies and Management Group controls actually do across all subscriptions. Guardrails translates complex policy JSON into plain language and shows inheritance, exceptions, and coverage gaps.
Search for any policy and see which subscriptions it protects. View the management group hierarchy with policy assignments at a glance.
Benchmark Your Preventive Posture
Understand where prevention gaps exist and which controls would have the biggest impact. Guardrails shows which security objectives lack coverage and recommends the best preventive controls to deploy.
Prioritize by risk reduction potential. See exactly which alerts each control would prevent.
Prevention for Runtime
Continuously monitor and instantly fix misconfigurations that slip through preventive controls. Automated remediation runs 24/7 across all subscriptions without manual intervention.
From public storage accounts to overly permissive network security groups - runtime prevention catches and fixes drift as it happens.
Simulate Before You Deploy
Test new Azure Policies and preventive controls against your actual environment before deployment. See exactly which resources would be affected and which operations would be blocked.
No surprises. No broken deployments. Validate controls in a safe simulation mode first.
Rollout & Expand
Deploy preventive controls progressively across your organization. Start with non-production subscriptions, validate behavior, then expand to production with confidence.
Communicate changes to stakeholders, track rollout progress, and ensure consistent policy enforcement across all subscriptions.
Preventive Security for your cloud platforms:
