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

Governing AI Systems at Scale: From Risk Models to Real Enforcement

Frameworks tell you what outcomes to achieve. They do not tell you how to instrument your system to produce them. That gap, between risk models and real enforcement, is where most AI governance programs are stuck.

June 12, 2026 · 4 min · Yogesh Thanvi

Engineering Trust: Building Systems That Prove Compliance Continuously

In cloud-native and AI-driven systems, compliance can no longer be a periodic activity. It has to be continuously demonstrated. Here is the architecture for engineering that trust.

June 8, 2026 · 6 min · Yogesh Thanvi