Security audit of Microsoft 365
Let’s evaluate the security options and security setup in your Microsoft environment. Then we can offer you our best recommendations in terms of security.
Microsoft 365 framework audit
Let’s assess the structure of your environment, the settings of your Teams team, and the organization of information. Following this, we will be able to offer you personalized recommendations.
Security audit of Microsoft 365
Protect your Microsoft-hosted information assets
Whether it’s high-privilege account management, authentication robustness, external sharing permissions, geographic location of data, or something else, an audit will be able to identify opportunities for improvement, to help you invest your efforts in the right place.
Why perform a Microsoft 365 security audit and entrust it to an external partner?
A Microsoft 365 security audit should be performed proactively, before a cyber threat occurs. This audit can most easily be performed at a strategic moment, such as just after migration to Microsoft 365, during an important strategic move, or following an acquisition.
- By entrusting your security audit to an external partner who has extensive expertise in Microsoft 365 and numerous audits to its credit, you will be assured of obtaining a quality audit.
- By giving the mandate to an external partner, you choose experience. At MS Solutions, a security audit is carried out by experienced specialists who work in collaboration with CISA and CISSP certified auditors to produce deliverables that meet the highest industry standards in auditing and cybersecurity.
Inclusions in a Microsoft 365 security audit:
It should be noted that Microsoft 365 includes a multitude of products and services. The default Microsoft 365 security audit validates the security framework of the overall organization. The scope of work for a Microsoft Office 365 security audit includes the following items:
- Governance and management of access and high-privilege accounts
- Permission management and authentication mechanisms
- External data location and sharing
- Threat management and monitoring
MS Solutions will provide you with a report including recommendations after the audit.
How does a Microsoft 365 security audit work?
The methodology that we recommend for carrying out a CGTI audit adapts to the size and realities of organizations. We are there from planning the audit, to presenting a detailed report, to collecting data and analyzing your IT systems.
Our security audit experts will meet with your organization’s employee(s) to plan the audit together. They will then ensure that they have all the access they need to perform the audit.
We will start this audit with a general review of the governance and management of information technology within your organization, as well as an analysis of the configurations in place.
Our experts will continue the audit with tests to identify potential security vulnerabilities within your Microsoft 365 environment.
The report will contain the various analyses and findings identified throughout the audit. The report will describe all the issues raised by our experts, as well as a series of recommendations to improve the security of your Microsoft 365 environment.
You will receive a report with images to simplify understanding. Recommendations will be issued to prioritize, target and direct improvement opportunities.
Microsoft 365 framework audit
Optimize your journey in Microsoft and maximize its adoption by your users
Whether it is a question of SharePoint sites, Teams teams, or related applications, the audit will be able to validate the best practices in place and detect areas requiring potential improvement.
Why carry out an audit of the structure of the Microsoft 365 collaborative environment and entrust it to an external partner?
Auditing the structure of the Microsoft 365 collaborative environment consists of evaluating the M365 group structure including SharePoint sites, Teams teams and related applications currently in use in the administration console. The objective is to deliver an external opinion on the validation of the good practices in place and to detect the sectors requiring potential improvements.
- By entrusting your audit of the structure of the collaborative environment to an external partner who has advanced skills on Microsoft 365 and numerous audits to his credit, you will be assured of obtaining a quality audit.
- By giving the mandate to an external partner, you choose the experience. At MS Solutions, the collaborative environment structure audit is an exercise carried out by experienced specialists who will be able to give you the best practices to optimize your structure.
The course of a Microsoft 365 structure audit:
The audit is divided into two parts, namely the review of M365 governance and current configurations, then the meeting of targeted users to understand the actual operation of applications in the M365 environment as well as their challenges and irritants.
During meetings with users, our team will seek to identify their working habits within the M365 ecosystem to put it into perspective with the collaborative potential of the tool. The presentation of our observations, findings and recommendations will be in the form of a report followed by an open discussion with you.
- Review of the governance in place / exploration of the site structure
- Access to the M365 administration center and verification of settings according to our audit grid
- Microsoft Purview compliance center settings overview
- Exploring the exploitation of Power Platform applications
- Inventory of M365 applications used
- Identify methods of using Teams & SharePoint in relation to other Microsoft 365 applications
- Understand the current operation of M365 by departments (4 interviews of 30 minutes with key users of the organization)
- Additional modules can be added depending on the number of physical locations or the size of the organization
- Project kick-off meeting, gaining access and planning
- Review of governance and configurations in place
- Meeting with targeted stakeholders
- Collect observations and write a report
- Presentation of findings
- Additional phases may be added depending on the maturity of the organization
Our Commitment
We are experts who accelerate the use of Microsoft 365 ecosystem technologies by your people through tailor-made support and the application of best practices.
Stéphane Blais
Vice President, Microsoft 365 Development and Support
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