Enforcing Pod Security on AKS with Azure Policy and OPA Gatekeeper

Detecting insecure pods on Azure Kubernetes Service is not the same as preventing them. Here is how Azure Policy and OPA Gatekeeper move enforcement to admission time, so a misconfigured workload never reaches the cluster.

June 13, 2026 · 3 min · Yogesh Thanvi

From ITAF to Azure Controls: Operationalizing an IT Audit Framework on Microsoft Cloud

An audit framework tells you what to assure. It does not tell you how to enforce it in a live cloud. Here is how I map the IT Audit Framework onto concrete Azure controls, Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, and Purview, so assurance objectives become running enforcement instead of a spreadsheet.

June 13, 2026 · 4 min · Yogesh Thanvi

Mapping CSPM to Microsoft Defender for Cloud: From Findings to Enforcement

Defender for Cloud is excellent at telling you what is misconfigured. A finding is not a fix. Here is how I turn cloud security posture management on Azure from a dashboard of alerts into enforcement that blocks and remediates, using Azure Policy deny effects and admission-time control on AKS.

June 13, 2026 · 4 min · Yogesh Thanvi