Cyber security is a huge focus for most IT teams and securing your Microsoft 365 tenant is a significant part of your overall IT infrastructure. Microsoft offers a range of solutions and tools to help you secure your Microsoft 365 tenant, but it can be hard to understand just how secure yours is. This is where the Microsoft Secure Score comes in.
Microsoft Secure Score
One of the first things to look at is your Microsoft Secure Score. Microsoft Secure Score evaluates your organisation’s security posture based on your regular activities and security settings in Office 365, including Microsoft Teams. This is a great tool for quickly evaluating how you stand and as a tracking metric against your security improvement projects.
Take advantage of Secure Score recommendations to:
- Report on the current state of the organisation’s security posture.
- Improve security posture by providing discoverability, visibility, guidance, and control.
- Compare against benchmarks and establish key performance indicators (KPIs).
5 uses for Microsoft Secure Score
- Assessing your security posture – Secure Score provides you with a real and measurable assessment of your Microsoft 365 and Azure security setup.
- Actionable recommendations – It offers you a ranked list of improvements you can make ranked by impact and complexity. This gives you a clear roadmap for improving your cyber security within the solution.
- Benchmarking your cyber security – Secure Score provides comparisons against industry benchmarks and similar businesses. This allows you to understand your score in context to see if you are behind or ahead of your peers and where you should be.
- Managing cyber security risk – By systematically following Secure Score recommendations you can actively improve your cyber security and demonstrate that you are keeping up with your industry. Without this it can be hard to be confident that your actually improving your cyber security.
- Making the most of the Microsoft security solutions: The tool highlights underutilised Microsoft security features. You are paying for these solutions, so it makes the most business sense to utilise these before considering additional tools.
Microsoft Secure Score is a great tool for quickly understanding your Microsoft security posture and creating actionable plans for improvements. The ability of IT teams to be able to demonstrate that they are improving the security posture of their business as well as how they compare to industry averages. We help organisations with our own M365 security assessments, carried out by certified consultants, to find out more visit our security services or contact us.
