Security Gap Analysis

Strengthen Your Microsoft 365 Defender with a Security Gap Audit
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Unchecked Security Gaps Leave Your Company at Risk

Initial misconfigurations, new features only partially implemented, or incomplete security setups create gaps in an organization's security configuration. This results in:
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    Increased Exposure to Threats: Misconfigurations leave systems vulnerable to attacks
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    Underutilized Features: New features may remain unused, reducing security effectiveness
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    Resource Strain: Fixing gaps requires significant time and expertise
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    Compliance Risks: Misconfigurations can lead to non-compliance and penalties
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    Complexity in Managing Security: Lack of clarity on how components fit within the broader security strategy.
  • Our Security Gap Analysis for Microsoft 365 Defender helps address configuration gaps by offering a comprehensive assessment. This enables informed decision-making to align your security setup with industry best practices and your specific needs.

    A Proven End-to-End Security Audit

    From environment discovery to risk prioritization, our detailed analysis uncovers gaps, misconfigurations, and unused features to enhance your security posture
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    Comprehensive Environment Discovery
    A full assessment identifies critical assets and security configurations, ensuring all areas are addressed and vulnerabilities are minimized
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    Identifying Security Configuration Gaps
    Analyzing your security setup uncovers misconfigurations and gaps, allowing for targeted fixes that enhance protection.
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    Prioritizing Security Risks
    By evaluating and ranking risks, the most critical threats are addressed first, reducing potential damage and improving overall security
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    Assessing Unused Features
    Unused or underutilized security tools are identified, enabling recommendations that optimize your resources while enhancing protection
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    Integrating with Your Existing Strategy
    Aligning security configurations with your broader cybersecurity strategy ensures a unified and effective approach to safeguarding your organization
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    Documenting Current and Future States
    Both current and future security states are documented, creating a roadmap for continuous improvement and long-term security success

    Data-Driven Recommendations Based on Your Needs

    Leveraging detailed data and metrics, we deliver a tailored security plan for your Microsoft 365 Defender environment that is designed to meet your company's needs

    Risk Prioritization

    Our team assess security risks based on potential for exploitation, business impact, misconfigurations, and security posture to prioritize remediation efforts

    Feature Utilization Analysis

    We evaluate the implementation of Microsoft Defender features to identify unused, partially implemented, or misconfigured features and recommend optimizations

    Roadmap for Improvement

    A tailored roadmap is created, outlining immediate actions, short-term improvements, and long-term strategies to enhance and maintain security

    Comprehensive Documentation

    All findings, gaps, and recommendations are documented in a detailed report, including assessments, prioritized actions, and future industry trends

    Key Assessment Features

    • Identity technical debt
    • MFA technical debt
    • Identify Legacy MFA methods (ie SMS, Phone Call, etc), and who is still actively using them
    • Allowed User app registration methods and what permissions have been consented to access your user account
      information
    • Identify User and Admin Entra ID accounts actively sign-in with no MFA registration
    • Unused “enabled” Entra ID User accounts (guest, native Entra ID, Hybrid accounts, etc)
    • Identify CA policies not aligned with zero trust framework
    • Identify Sign-ins excluded from CA Policies (and why)
    • CA Policies that should be created, but haven’t
    • Identify Named Locations and how they should be used
    • Blatant gaps in your CA Policies
    • MDI Agent saturation
    • Policy review for
      • Anti-Phish
      • Anti-Spam
      • Anti-malware
      • Safelinks
      • Safe Attachments
    • Misconfigured Exchange Transport Rule (ETR) hygiene
    • Review Allowed list for IP’s, Domains, and Senders
    • DNS Record Hygiene (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX)
    • ASR
    • onboarding saturation
    • unused features
    • Policy Templates
    • Review Risky Sign-ins and Risky Users
    • Identify false positives

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