Security - Essential 8 - Microsoft 365

Linktech Australia's Essential 8 assessment and remediation for Microsoft 365 is taking into consideration changes with service features within the Microsoft 365 SaaS platform, threat and risk vectors to provide a point in time assessment and remediation for Microsoft 365 tenant services.

This is valuable for a customer to determine if the existing foundations and readiness of the service moving forward and to look at Endpoint Management benefits in the future to add depth and breadth for a holistic security mitigation approach. To utilise the features available in Microsoft 365 Business Premium online services should be configured against a measurable security baseline.

Center for Internet Security (CIS) key areas of focus are listed below:

Access Control
Passphrasess
Backup of key information
Multi-factor Authentication
Employee Training

This Assessment and Remediation will follow the below high-level engagement plan.

Kick-off
Introductions, stakeholders, and engagement timeline
Assessment
Assessment of Microsoft 365 environment created
Walkthrough of Assessment findings and potential issues
Assist with Change Control and Communication inputs
Remediate
Within change windows deploy identified and agreed remediation activities
Assessment Report re-run
Assessment of Microsoft 365 environment created
Walkthrough of Assessment improvements
Recommendations for further security improvements
Close
Next steps and or extra recommendations

The Customer MUST have a Microsoft 365 Business Premium license, if none are available Linktech Australia can provide them at extra cost.