Simplifying Cloud Governance, Compliance and Identity Management Across the Organisation

Challenge

Enterprise IT teams are responsible for securing and governing increasingly complex Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace environments. Managing user lifecycle processes, maintaining Cyber Essentials compliance, monitoring identity risks and preparing executive reports often requires multiple tools and significant manual effort.

Without continuous visibility, organisations risk:

• Compliance gaps

• Excessive user permissions

• Dormant or unmanaged accounts

• Licence overspend

• Missed security indicators

• Delayed remediation of configuration issues

As Cyber Essentials and cloud security requirements increasingly include SaaS environments, organisations require continuous visibility into their cloud services and identity infrastructure.

Solution

CIQ® Cloud provides a unified platform for monitoring, governing and optimising Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace environments.

The platform continuously assesses cloud environments, providing real-time insights into compliance, governance, identity health and operational performance.

Key capabilities include:

• Cyber Essentials assessment automation

• Continuous compliance monitoring

• Entra ID security and governance analysis

• Impossible travel detection and identity risk monitoring

• DNS monitoring and domain health analysis

• User lifecycle management

• Licence optimisation

• Executive and operational reporting

• Understanding and monitoring OpenAI usage

• Automated remediation workflows

Benefits

Improve Compliance Readiness

Maintain continuous visibility of Cyber Essentials requirements and identify configuration issues before they become audit findings. Continuous monitoring and evidence collection help organisations remain audit-ready throughout the year.

Strengthen Identity Governance

Identify dormant accounts, privileged users, expired credentials and unusual sign-in activity before they create operational or security risks.

Reduce Operational Complexity

Replace spreadsheets, manual audits and disconnected tools with a single platform that provides actionable insights and automation.

Increase Visibility

Gain a complete view of user activity, cloud configuration, licensing and compliance status across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace environments.

Support Executive Decision Making

Provide leadership teams with clear reporting on risk, compliance, security posture and cloud service utilisation.

Results

CIQ® Cloud enables Enterprise IT teams to move from periodic audits and manual administration to continuous governance and compliance management. The result is improved operational efficiency, stronger security controls, reduced compliance risk and greater confidence in the organisation's cloud infrastructure.