M365/Azure Security Assessment

What is an M365/Azure security assessment?

An M365/Azure security assessment audits how you've configured your Microsoft cloud. Instead of attacking your tenant, we review its settings: identity and access in Entra ID, conditional access and multi-factor authentication, Exchange Online, SharePoint and OneDrive sharing, Teams, your Azure subscriptions, logging, and the third-party apps you've granted access to. Then we tell you which settings leave you exposed, why each one matters and how to fix it.

Why does Microsoft 365 need a review?

Microsoft builds its defaults for easy collaboration, not tight security, and settings drift as admins come and go and projects add exceptions that nobody removes. Common problems include:

• Legacy authentication still allowed, letting attackers skip multi-factor authentication entirely
• Admin accounts, service accounts or break-glass accounts without strong protection
• External sharing wide open in SharePoint, OneDrive or Teams
• Too many Global Administrators, many of them used for daily work
• Third-party apps holding broad access to mail and files that someone approved years ago
• Audit logging off entirely, or on with nobody reading it

Each of these shows up in real breaches, and each one takes a settings change, not new software, to fix.

What do you review?

• Identity. Users, admin roles, guest accounts, privileged access and how you protect them.
• Sign-in security. Conditional access policies, multi-factor authentication coverage and the gaps between them.
• Email security. Anti-phishing settings, mail forwarding rules, and SPF, DKIM and DMARC for your domains.
• Data sharing. SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams sharing settings, plus external access.
• Applications. App registrations, consented permissions and service principals.
• Azure. Subscription access, role assignments, exposed resources and storage settings.
• Visibility. Audit logs, alerting and how long you keep the records you'd need after an incident.

How does this differ from a cloud penetration test?

This assessment covers breadth. It reviews the whole tenant and finds every misconfiguration, including ones an attacker might never need. A cloud penetration test covers depth. It starts from an attacker's position and proves which gaps actually lead to your data. If nobody has reviewed your tenant before, start with the assessment. Many clients follow up with a pentest once they've cleaned up the findings.

What access do you need?

Read-only access. We'll ask you to set up an account with read-only roles, so we can review your settings without changing anything in your tenant. You stay in control the whole time, and you can remove the account the moment we finish.

Will this help with compliance?

If you're working toward CMMC, HIPAA, SOC 2 or a cyber insurance questionnaire, many of the controls those frameworks ask about live in your Microsoft tenant: multi-factor authentication, access reviews, logging and data sharing. The report shows where you stand on each one, which gives you evidence for auditors and a fix list for your IT team.

What do we get at the end?

A report that ranks every finding by risk, explains it in plain language and gives your admins the exact setting to change. We separate quick wins, the changes you can make this afternoon, from bigger projects that need planning and user communication. Then we walk you through it.

Related services and reading

• Cloud Penetration Testing: prove which gaps an attacker can actually use.
• Social Engineering & Phishing: test the email defenses this assessment reviews.
• Active Directory Security Assessment: for the on-premises side of a hybrid environment.