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Microsoft 365 tenant hardening

Your Microsoft 365 is almost certainly wide open

Right now, the security controls inside your Microsoft 365 subscription are either switched off, set to their weakest defaults, or misconfigured. That’s not a guess — it’s what we find in almost every tenant we assess. Attackers know it too. We lock it down.

  • We configure, tune and lock down the security you’re already paying for.
  • Close the exact gaps attackers use to get in: weak logins, open email, unmanaged devices.
  • Evidence pack for cyber insurance, Cyber Essentials and client due diligence.
  • Every change documented so your team understands and owns it.
Tenant hardening checklist 87 items IDENTITY & ACCESS MFA enforcement (all users) Conditional access policies Privileged Identity Management Risky users & sign-in risk policies Break-glass emergency accounts Legacy authentication blocking Admin role review & least-privilege Password protection (banned lists) Self-service password reset EMAIL & COLLABORATION Anti-phishing policies Safe Links & Safe Attachments Anti-spoofing & DMARC alignment External email tagging Quarantine policies & notifications DEVICES & ENDPOINTS Intune device enrolment Compliance baselines BitLocker encryption App protection policies Attack surface reduction rules Windows Hello for Business + DLP, retention, audit logging, Secure Score…
Why this matters

A single compromised Microsoft 365 account can give an attacker access to your email, your files, your contacts and your financial systems — in minutes. Most SME breaches don’t start with sophisticated hacking. They start with a stolen password, a phishing link, or a device that was never enrolled into management.

The tools to stop all three are already inside your Microsoft subscription. They’re just not switched on.

What does tenant hardening actually do?

We go through your Microsoft 365 and lock every door

Our Microsoft security engineers audit your tenant, switch on the controls you’re paying for but not using, and close the gaps attackers walk through every day.

Lock down who gets in

Enforce MFA everywhere, set up conditional access policies, protect admin accounts with dedicated controls, block risky sign-in behaviour and remove stale or over-privileged accounts.

Harden your email

Configure anti-phishing, safe links, safe attachments and anti-spoofing policies in Exchange Online — so your email filtering actually catches the threats Microsoft misses by default.

Control every device

Enrol devices into Intune, enforce compliance baselines, turn on disk encryption, configure endpoint protection and make sure only trusted devices can access company data.

Stop data walking out

Lock down external sharing in SharePoint and OneDrive, apply sensitivity labels where they matter, enable audit logging and set retention policies so nothing leaves without a trace.

See threats as they happen

Turn on and tune Microsoft’s built-in threat detection — alerting on suspicious sign-ins, impossible travel, risky user behaviour and compromised account indicators.

Prove it to auditors

Configure the logging, retention and evidence that insurers, auditors and compliance frameworks like Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, NIST CSF and HIPAA expect to see.

Why this is the single most important thing you can do

You’re already paying for the protection. You’re just not using it.

Your Microsoft licence already includes serious security tools — the higher the tier, the more you get. The problem is that most organisations use less than 20% of what they’re paying for. We switch on and configure what’s already there.

Stops the attacks that actually hit SMEs

Credential theft, phishing and unmanaged devices cause the vast majority of real-world SME breaches. Not sophisticated zero-days — basic gaps that hardening closes completely, using controls you already own.

Your insurer already expects it

MFA, email protection, endpoint management and audit logging are baseline requirements on cyber insurance applications. Without them, you’re paying more for cover, getting less of it, or being declined altogether.

No new products, no new cost

Every control we configure is already included in your Microsoft licence — whether that’s Business Premium, Business Premium with the Defender & Purview add-on, or E5. No new products, no new monthly costs. We just switch on and tune what’s already there.

Visibility you don’t have today

If someone compromised an admin account in your tenant right now, would you know? Audit logging, sign-in monitoring and admin activity tracking turn your environment from a black box into something you can see and respond to.

Shrinks your attack surface overnight

Legacy protocols disabled. External sharing restricted. Risky sign-ins blocked. Unmanaged devices locked out. Every door we close is one less way in — and most are wide open in a default tenant.

Evidence, not promises

Every policy and setting is documented in plain English. When your insurer, your auditor, or a client due-diligence questionnaire asks “what security controls do you have in place?” — you hand them the pack instead of scrambling.

How it works

Built around your tenant, not a generic checklist

Every engagement is led by senior Microsoft engineers who work in Entra, Intune, Defender and Purview every day — not a first-line team running through a checklist.

Audit & prioritise

We map your tenant — identities, devices, admin roles, sharing settings and licence allocation — then sequence the work around the controls that will reduce your risk fastest. You see exactly what’s exposed and what we’ll fix first.

Roll out safely

Changes land in monitor mode first, then a pilot group, then full enforcement — with a back-out plan at every stage. Your users shouldn’t notice the hardening happening around them.

Document & hand over

Every policy, setting and exception goes into a plain-English handover pack — plus a prioritised roadmap of what’s been hardened, what’s been deferred and what to tackle next. Your team, your auditor and your insurer can see exactly what changed and why.

Ongoing support

Microsoft changes constantly. We can continue to monitor your Secure Score, review new policies as they land, and adjust controls as your organisation grows — so the investment keeps paying off long after the initial engagement ends.

Optional extras

Go further where it makes sense

Microsoft’s native security covers a lot of ground, but some organisations need more. We recommend which extras are worth it based on what we find during discovery.

Add-on

Advanced email security

API-based email security that sits alongside Exchange Online for advanced phishing, BEC and malware protection beyond what Microsoft’s built-in filters catch.

Add-on

Domain authentication (DMARC)

SPF, DKIM and DMARC deployed and progressively enforced so attackers can’t send fake emails from your domain — with clear reporting on who’s trying.

Add-on

DNS-layer web filtering

Blocks malicious domains, phishing sites and inappropriate content at the DNS layer — in the office, at home and on the move.

Add-on

Managed identity threat detection

24/7 human-led investigation of suspicious sign-ins and session activity in Microsoft 365 and Entra ID, on top of Microsoft’s native controls.

Add-on

Independent cloud backup

Independent backup of Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams to tamper-proof cloud storage — recoverable even if the tenant is fully compromised.

Find out what’s exposed in your tenant

Book a 30-minute scoping call. We’ll assess your Microsoft 365 environment, show you exactly where the gaps are, and come back with a fixed-price proposal to close them. No commitment, no sales pitch — just a clear picture of your risk.

Microsoft Partner • 15+ years protecting small & regulated organisations