Check your cloud’s breach resilience in minutes, not weeks

‍TL;DR

We've spent over a decade responding to cloud incidents. The same handful of failures show up in case after case: short log retention, weak identity controls, exposed ports, public storage, and neglected secrets. We packed the 15 controls that actually decide the outcome into the The Invictus Breach Resilience Blueprint. 

Through our partnership with Dawnguard, that blueprint now runs directly against your Azure environment and scores each control against the Azure Well-Architected Framework. A clear answer in minutes instead of a weeks-long manual audit.

Point Dawnguard at your cloud and see where you stand. Stay undefeated with Invictus.

Why did we build this?

Cloud breach resilience is how well your environment can detect, withstand, and recover from a breach. You measure it by checking the controls that decide the outcome: logging retention, identity hardening, network exposure, storage configuration, and secret management. 

We built the Breach Resilience Blueprint from the patterns we kept seeing on the 5pm Friday calls. Fifteen controls across five steps. The ones that, in our experience, decide whether a breach becomes a footnote in a quarterly report or a catastrophe in a regulator's filing. The blueprint targets exactly those and scores each control against the Azure Well-Architected Framework so you see what it costs in operations and budget, not just what it buys in security.

For a long time the blueprint lived as guidance: something we walked customers through during incident readiness engagements, or pointed to after a response. Good guidance, but guidance you still had to translate into checks against your own environment. That gap is what our partnership with Dawnguard was built to close.

From guidance to a check you can run

Through our partnership with Dawnguard, the blueprint is no longer a PDF you file away. Open Dawnguard, point it at your Azure tenant, and the 15 controls run directly against your environment. Each one comes back scored against the Azure Well-Architected Framework so you can weigh security alongside operational and budget impact, not in isolation. The same incident readiness conversation we used to spread across multiple sessions, you can now have with your own environment in minutes.

Frequently asked questions

What is cloud breach resilience?

• Cloud breach resilience is how well your environment can detect, withstand, and recover from a breach. It comes down to a handful of controls: how long you keep immutable logs, how hard your identities are to phish, how exposed your management ports are, how your storage is configured, and how your secrets are managed.

How do you check cloud breach resilience?

• Point Dawnguard at your cloud. Currently, it runs the Breach Resilience Blueprint for Azure, 15 critical controls across 5 steps, and scores each one against the Azure Well-Architected Framework. You get a clear answer in minutes instead of a weeks-long manual audit. In the near future, the blueprint will expand to other clouds.

What are the five steps of the Breach Resilience Blueprint?‍

• Visibility (cloud logging), identity (phishing-resistant MFA), network (closing management ports), storage (private access and soft delete), and Key Vault and secret management (expiration and purge protection). Each step targets a failure that decides whether a breach is a footnote or a catastrophe.

Who created the Breach Resilience Blueprint?

• Invictus Incident Response built the Breach Resilience Blueprint from thousands of hours of cloud incident response. Dawnguard and Invictus partnered to turn that field experience into a check you can run: Invictus brings the frontline knowledge of how breaches actually unfold, and Dawnguard runs the controls directly against your environment and scores them against the Azure Well-Architected Framework.

Where does the Breach Resilience Blueprint live? 

• Inside Dawnguard. Dawnguard is a secure-by-design cloud security platform built to validate cloud architecture from day zero and keep it aligned long after deployment — design-phase risk detection, production-ready IaC, and continuous posture enforcement in one place. 

About Invictus Incident Response

We are an incident response company and we ❤️ the cloud. We specialize in supporting organizations in preparing for and responding to cyber attacks across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and beyond. We help our clients stay undefeated.

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