Microsoft 365 Security & Hardening
The identity, device, and data hardening behind the Deadline Packs - Microsoft 365 secured to the baseline your insurer or auditor checks, sold as an ongoing capability.
No cost, no obligation - you keep the report either way.
The problem
A cyber-insurance questionnaire no longer accepts 'we have MFA' as an answer - insurers now want evidence that each control was enforced when it mattered. For finance and insurance teams especially, a failed renewal, a flagged audit, or an account takeover is a board-level event. The fix is rarely a single product. It is a coherent identity, device, and data posture - hardened to the baseline your insurer or auditor actually checks, evidenced, and kept that way.
What's Included
- Microsoft Secure Score uplift with a prioritised, risk-ranked remediation plan
- Conditional Access baseline and Microsoft Entra identity controls (Zero Trust direction)
- Microsoft Defender suite configuration across identity, endpoints, and Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Intune device compliance and hardening
- Microsoft Purview / Data Loss Prevention (DLP) review for oversharing and data-leak risk
- Movement toward CIS, ISO 27001, and cyber-insurance requirements
Baselines & Accreditations
We specialise in aligning your estate with the baselines and accreditations that matter most to your business.
Microsoft Security Baseline
Microsoft's recommended security configuration for Windows, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Entra, applied and enforced as a consistent tenant baseline.
CMMC Level 1 & Level 2
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification - Level 1 safeguarding controls for Federal Contract Information (FCI), and Level 2 for Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).
CIS Controls & Benchmarks
Center for Internet Security Controls and configuration Benchmarks, mapped to your Microsoft 365 estate.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF 2.0) - a risk-based structure for governing, identifying, protecting, detecting, and responding across your estate.
ISO 27001
The international standard for an information security management system (ISMS), with the technical controls in place to support certification.
SOC 2
System and Organization Controls 2 - the trust-services criteria (security, availability, confidentiality) your customers and auditors expect.
Partners
We work with specialist tooling partners for audit and independent verification, so the picture of your posture is evidence-based rather than opinion.
Automated posture audit
Audit & reportingAutomated posture audit against recognised baselines, giving a clear, evidence-based picture of where you stand.
Continuous compliance monitoring
Third-party verificationContinuous compliance monitoring and independent verification, so evidence stays current between formal audits.
Outcomes
- A measurably stronger security posture - we have taken regulated finance teams from the low Secure Score ranges (around 40%) to over 90%
- Repeatable, documented hardening rather than one-off fixes
- Audit and compliance readiness, mapped to recognised frameworks
Who It's For
- Finance, insurance, and other regulated teams on Microsoft 365 facing a cyber-insurance renewal, an audit, or a board-level security review
- Organisations driven by security and compliance that need hardening evidenced against a recognised baseline, not just asserted
- Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) who want the same hardening as templates and training to run across many tenants
How to Start
Most engagements begin with the free audit and go no further until you have seen where you stand.
Posture Audit
Free
An automated posture audit of your Microsoft 365 estate against the baselines above, followed by a call to talk through what matters most.
- A take-away report showing where your posture stands against each baseline
- The benchmark most relevant to your business and obligations, identified with you
- A conversation about your highest-level priorities and what fixing them would involve
No cost, no obligation. We onboard a limited number of new estates each month, and return your findings within 5 working days of read access.
Roadmap
from £4,500 / $5,800
The implementation plan the audit does not give you - what to fix, in what order, what it takes, and what breaks if the sequence is wrong.
- Identity, device, and data governance reviewed against your target baseline
- Oversharing and data-leak exposure mapped ahead of any Microsoft Copilot rollout
- A sequenced remediation plan with dependencies, effort estimates, and risks - yours to act on with us or without us
Fixed-Scope Implementation
from £20,000 / $25,600
A fixed-price, fixed-scope engagement that hardens your Microsoft 365 estate to the agreed baseline.
- Identity, device, and data controls hardened to the target baseline
- Remediation delivered against the agreed scope, with progress tracked throughout
- An evidence pack mapping each control to the baseline it answers, ready for audit or renewal
Guarantee: if a scoped control is flagged at your renewal or audit, we fix it before the deadline at no extra charge.
Continuous Evidence
from £3,500 / $4,500
An ongoing retainer that keeps your posture aligned and your audit and insurance evidence current and submittable as your estate changes.
- A fixed amount of expert time each month, spent on the highest-priority security work
- Evidence kept current and submittable, with drift caught before an auditor sees it
- A forward plan of security initiatives, reprioritised every month
Month one: a posture baseline and a first evidence pack.
Engagement Model
Every engagement is productised: a defined scope, a fixed price, and named deliverables agreed before any work starts. No day rates, no open-ended time and materials, no surprise invoices. And it is guaranteed: if a control we scoped in is flagged at your cyber-insurance renewal or audit, we fix it before the deadline at no extra charge.
Pricing: Roadmap from £4,500 / $5,800 - larger engagements are tailored to scope.
We govern the AI we deliver with
This work is delivered AI-accelerated, so AI tooling reads configuration and log data from your estate along the way. It is fair to ask how that is governed - and the answer is published: which providers we use and on what commercial terms, what client data never reaches a model, that a named architect signs off every output, and that AI tooling holds no standing write access to client systems.
Read our AI policyRelated
The Cyber-Insurance Renewal Pack
Renewal or audit date approaching? The fixed-price, guaranteed way to buy this hardening against a deadline.
Before you switch on Microsoft Copilot, fix oversharing
Why Microsoft Copilot surfaces data nobody realised was over-shared - and what a readiness roadmap covers.
Microsoft Secure Score is a starting line, not a finish line
How to treat Secure Score as one input to a hardening plan rather than a number to chase.
Microsoft Azure Security & Hardening
The same baseline-led approach applied to your Microsoft Azure platform - identity, network, and workload controls.
AI Readiness Pack
Once identity and data governance are right, switch on Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude without it surfacing data nobody meant to share.
Cyber-Insurance Readiness Checklist
The free checklist of the controls insurers now ask for, each mapped to where it lives in Microsoft 365 - the self-serve first look before a posture audit.
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Find out where you stand, free
Most engagements start with a no-cost posture audit against the baselines that matter to you. If a fixed-fee roadmap is the right next step, we'll say so - and if it isn't, we'll say that too.