Microsoft-Native GRC for Security and Compliance Teams
Microsoft-native GRC is a compliance model where evidence is generated from the Microsoft Security estate an organization already runs, not from generic API connectors that poll for screenshots. Kyūdō converts signals from Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Entra ID, and Azure Policy into evidence artifacts, then maps each artifact across 80+ frameworks through the Secure Controls Framework crosswalk.
Kyūdō is designed for organizations using Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Policy, and related Microsoft security services. It deploys inside the customer's own Azure tenant: see the customer-hosted architecture for the deployment model, or the Microsoft partnership page for how the platform fits the Microsoft ecosystem.
Five Microsoft services, one evidence pipeline
Each connected service contributes a distinct class of evidence. The platform draws on the broader Microsoft Defender family, and every artifact lands in the same Compliance Graph with a hash, lineage, and confidence score. See integrations for the full connector catalog.
Microsoft Defender XDR
Microsoft Defender XDR telemetry becomes control evidence for endpoint protection, identity threat response, and email security.
- Endpoint protection coverage across the device estate
- Identity and email threat detection status
- Response actions as evidence that detection controls operate
Microsoft Sentinel
Microsoft Sentinel provides log analytics and detection coverage evidence for monitoring and incident response controls.
- Analytics rule coverage mapped to detection requirements
- Log ingestion as evidence of audit logging controls
- Detection activity supporting incident response controls
Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Purview yields data classification and DLP evidence for data protection and privacy controls.
- Classification results across data stores
- DLP policy state as data handling evidence
- Sensitivity labeling supporting privacy requirements
Microsoft Entra ID
Microsoft Entra ID supplies access control evidence: MFA enforcement, conditional access, and privileged access state.
- MFA enforcement status across the user population
- Conditional access policy state as access control evidence
- Privileged role assignments for least-privilege controls
Azure Policy
Azure Policy provides configuration compliance states: each resource's evaluation against assigned policies becomes evidence.
- Resource compliance state against assigned policy definitions
- Policy assignment coverage across subscriptions
- Remediation state for configuration baseline controls
The security truth already exists in your tenant
For regulated organizations on Microsoft, the hard part of compliance is rarely the security work itself. Defender XDR already watches the endpoints, Entra ID already enforces conditional access, and Azure Policy already evaluates configurations. The gap is proof: turning what the estate already knows into evidence an assessor can verify.
Generic connector-based tools treat Microsoft services as one integration among hundreds, sampling configuration snapshots on a schedule. A Microsoft-native model inverts this: the telemetry the security team already trusts becomes the compliance record, with each artifact carrying a hash, lineage, and confidence score so its origin is verifiable.
Evidence collected when the signal fires
Manual evidence gathering scales with the number of frameworks. A signal-driven pipeline scales with the estate: one signal satisfies every framework that requires it, across 1,400+ controls. The result is continuous controls monitoring rather than quarterly screenshot collection, running on the AI-native platform architecture.
Signal fires
A conditional access policy changes, an endpoint checks in, a policy evaluation completes. The event itself is the trigger; nobody exports anything.
Evidence is created and mapped
The signal becomes an artifact with a hash, lineage, and confidence score, linked in the Compliance Graph to the controls it supports and mapped through the SCF crosswalk (with STRM semantic mapping per NIST IR 8477) to every framework requiring it.
Controls rescore
The CMCAE assessment engine rescores the affected controls for completeness (0 to 100) and capability maturity (1 to 5), so posture reflects the estate as it is now.
Questions, answered
Yes. Kyūdō converts Microsoft Sentinel signals into compliance evidence, including analytics rule coverage and log analytics data that demonstrate detection and monitoring controls are operating. Each evidence artifact carries a hash, lineage, and confidence score, and is mapped through the Secure Controls Framework crosswalk to every framework that requires it.
No. Each connected Microsoft service adds evidence coverage, but none is a prerequisite. An organization running Microsoft Entra ID and Azure Policy alone generates access control and configuration compliance evidence; adding Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, or Microsoft Purview extends coverage to endpoint, detection, and data protection controls.
Yes. Kyūdō also ingests signals from AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud, so multi-cloud estates map into the same control catalog. The Microsoft Security estate is the deepest signal source, but evidence from other clouds lands in the same Compliance Graph with the same hash, lineage, and confidence scoring.
When a signal fires in a connected Microsoft service, Kyūdō converts it into an evidence artifact with a hash, lineage, and confidence score, links it in the Compliance Graph to the controls it supports, and maps it through the Secure Controls Framework crosswalk to every framework requiring it. The CMCAE assessment engine then rescores the affected controls for completeness (0 to 100) and capability maturity (1 to 5).
No. Kyūdō is built by KMicro Tech, Inc., a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Security and a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA). The platform deploys inside the customer's own Azure tenant through Azure Managed Applications and reads signals from the Microsoft security services the customer already runs.
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See your Microsoft signals become evidence
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