ANS Co-Managed Security

ANS Co-Managed Security is an end-to-end, governance-led, Microsoft-native security service designed to help organisations securely adopt, operate, and extend their use of Microsoft Azure and the wider Microsoft security ecosystem. Through a co-managed operating model, ANS provides the expertise, operational capabilities, and specialist knowledge needed to strengthen security posture, reduce risk, and support ongoing cloud transformation.

By combining preventative security, governance, compliance, continuous monitoring, threat protection, and defensive response capabilities, ANS helps organisations accelerate their Azure and Microsoft cloud security journey, address skills and resource gaps, and confidently implement security best practices across their environments. Whether customers are establishing foundational cloud security controls or enhancing existing capabilities, ANS works alongside internal teams to improve resilience, support secure innovation, and maximise the value of their Microsoft investments.

Who Is It For? • Microsoft centric organisations - Businesses using Microsoft 365, Entra ID, and endpoint services as core platforms. • Security Conscious teams - Organisations looking to reduce risk from identity compromise, misconfiguration, and policy drift. • Capacity constrained IT and security teams - Teams that need expert security support without the overhead of running a full SOC. • AI Ready organisations - Businesses preparing for or actively adopting Microsoft Copilot, AI agents, and intelligent automation. • Growing and transforming enterprises - Organisations adopting or expanding their use of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft cloud technologies who require security, governance, and operational expertise to support transformation initiatives.

Key Features & Capabilities

• Secure by Design, Secure by Default - Robust identity protection, policy alignment, and Microsoft-native controls are embedded throughout your estate, ensuring security as standard. • Preventative Security Continuously - Identify misconfigurations, policy drift, exposure signals, and control gaps across your Microsoft estate - reducing risk before it becomes an incident. • Intelligent Governance & Change Control - Consistent, policy-led change management reduces risk and maintains configuration integrity across your environments. • Expert Guidance & Architectural Assurance - Access Microsoft-certified specialists who provide configuration validation, security architecture guidance, and Azure security best practices to help organisations deploy, optimise, and securely expand their Microsoft cloud environments. • Operational Efficiency & Shared Responsibility - Transfer agreed security tasks to ANS, freeing internal teams for strategic focus. • Defensive Security Strengthen your ability to detect, triage, contain, and respond to threats through continuous monitoring, clear escalation routes, and access to ANS defensive security capabilities. • Continuous Service Evolution - Improve resilience over time through ongoing reporting, maturity reviews, optimisation, and expert guidance aligned to changing threats, Microsoft innovation, and business priorities.

Business Outcomes • Cyber resilience, without compromise: Bring preventative and defensive security together to reduce the likelihood of incidents and improve your ability to detect, respond, contain, and recover when threats emerge.

• Compliance, without complexity: Stay ahead of evolving standards with centralised policy management, automated evidence collection and audit ready reporting.

• Minimise risk, from brand impact to finances: Proactive controls and continuous oversight reduce the chance of breaches, safeguarding your reputation and preventing costly operational disruption.

• Security expertise, without the resource strain: Augment your in-house security capabilities with specialist advisory, governance frameworks, and targeted expertise, filling critical skill gaps and easing operational workload.

• Threat detection, without disruption: Strengthen defensive security with continuous monitoring, clear triage, rapid escalation, and response capabilities that help minimise business impact when threats occur.

Why Choose ANS Co-Managed Security?

• End-to-end cyber resilience ANS unifies preventative security, defensive security, governance, monitoring, and service evolution in one co-managed model - helping customers reduce exposure, respond with confidence, and continuously strengthen resilience.

• Secure-by-design approach Security is embedded into everything ANS does, ensuring protection is built in from the outset rather than added as an afterthought.

• 24/7/365 UK based SOC support Continuous monitoring and incident response is delivered from a security cleared UK based Security Operations Centre, supporting both private and public sector organisations.