Microsoft Secure Score Sprint
The Microsoft Secure Score your board or a customer's due diligence has flagged, raised to an agreed target and evidenced - typically from the low ranges to 85%+ - in a fixed 60-day sprint, or we keep working free.
No cost, no obligation - we measure where your Secure Score stands today and what it would take to reach your target. You keep the report either way.
Track record
Microsoft Secure Score, regulated finance teams
- Hardened to an agreed target in a fixed 60-day sprint
- Real, documented hardening, not points banked blindly
- Guaranteed, or we keep working free
The problem
Someone - the board, a customer running their own due diligence, or an auditor - has looked at your Microsoft Secure Score and decided the number is too low. A low score is a visible, external signal that your identity, device, and data controls are not where they should be, and it does not improve on its own. This is the sprint for fixing it early, before a dated insurer renewal or audit turns a low score into a deadline - when a renewal or audit is already on the calendar, the Cyber-Insurance Renewal Pack is the dated, evidence-complete answer instead. But chasing the number blindly is its own trap: some recommendations do not fit your estate, and a score raised by dismissing findings rather than fixing them is a number that will not survive a real audit. The fix is a focused sprint that hardens the controls that actually matter, to an agreed target, and evidences each one - so the score goes up because the posture behind it did.
What's Included
- A Secure Score baseline and a risk-ranked plan of the controls that move it, separating real hardening from recommendations that do not fit your estate
- Identity controls hardened first - MFA coverage including shared mailboxes and admins, a Conditional Access baseline, and a privileged-role review
- Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Intune device compliance, and Microsoft Purview data controls brought up to the agreed target
- Each improvement evidenced - what was changed, why, and the control it satisfies - not points banked by dismissing findings
- A short board-ready summary: where the score started, where it landed, and what keeps it there
Outcomes
- The score your board or a customer's due diligence flagged, raised to the agreed target and evidenced - typically from the low ranges to 85%+
- Real, documented hardening behind the number, so it holds up to an audit or a questionnaire
- A prioritised trail you can keep running, rather than a one-off spike that drifts back down
Who It's For
- Finance, insurance, and other teams whose board, a customer's due diligence, or an auditor has flagged a low Microsoft Secure Score
- IT and security leads told to 'get the number up' who want it done as hardening, not gamed
- Anyone who wants a fast, measurable posture win early - before a renewal or audit puts the score on a deadline
Engagement Model
A fixed-scope, fixed-price sprint with a defined 60-day window, scoped to your Microsoft 365 estate. Defined deliverables, a fixed price, no day rates. And it is guaranteed: your Microsoft Secure Score reaches the agreed target within the sprint window, or we keep working at no extra charge until it does. The target is agreed against real hardening - we will not bank points by dismissing findings that leave you exposed. And it graduates into Continuous Evidence, so the score holds and the hardening evidence stays current inside the retainer, rather than drifting back down once the sprint ends.
Pricing: from £7,500 / $9,600 - 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
Microsoft 365 Security & Hardening
The broader, ongoing identity, device, and data hardening the sprint draws on, sold as a continuing capability. Start with a free posture audit.
The Cyber-Insurance Renewal Pack
A renewal or audit is the deadline behind most score reviews. The fixed-price pack evidences every control on the questionnaire before your date.
Microsoft Secure Score is a starting line, not a finish line
Why we treat the score as a legible proxy for hardening, never a number to game - and how to keep it from drifting back down.
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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.