Why Microsoft 365 is the most secured platform for your business

Microsoft provides a holistic approach to security, helping you to protect identities, data, applications, and devices across on-premises, cloud, and mobile.

Identity and access in Microsoft 365

Secure authentication

• Strong passwords can be difficult to remember
• Users often reuse passwords on multiple different sites
• Server breaches can expose symmetric network credentials (passwords).
• Passwords are subject to replay attacks.
• Users can inadvertently expose their passwords due to phishing attacks.

Microsoft Authenticator

1. Two-factor verification
2. Phone sign-in

Conditional access

Conditional access provides granular access to keep your corporate data secure while letting users do their best work from any device and from any location. It access spans Microsoft 365 services including Intune, Microsoft 365, and Windows 10.

Identity protection

To help protect your user’s identities, you need to:

• Protect all identities regardless of their privilege level
• Proactively prevent compromised identities from being abused

Threat protection in Microsoft 365

Microsoft has developed different services that specialize in protecting against various threat vectors such as endpoints, networks, email, and business-critical data. These services integrate via the Microsoft Graph. The Microsoft Graph uses advanced analytics to link a massive amount of threat intelligence and security data to real-time threat protection in Microsoft 365.

Let's take a closer look at some of the main Threat Protection services included in Microsoft 365.

• Azure Active Directory Identity Protection
• Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
• Azure Security Center
• Microsoft Cloud App Security
• Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP)
• Microsoft Intune
• Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection
• Office 365 Threat Intelligence
• Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
• BitLocker and credential guard ( protect boot process and user credentials.)
• Windows Hello (fingerprints and facial recognition)
• Windows Information Protection (WIP)

Information protection solutions in Microsoft 365

To balance productivity and security effectively, you need a strategy to protect and manage sensitive information. You need to know where your sensitive information is located. And you need to be able to control it as it travels within and outside your organization. You also need to have a way to classify, label and apply appropriate protections to your information.

It can be helpful to think about your information protection strategy in terms of these four key activities:

• Discover
• Classify
• Protect
• Monitor

The Microsoft Information Protection solutions in Microsoft 365 help you protect sensitive data throughout its lifecycle—across devices, apps, cloud services, and on-premises locations.

Information protection reports and analytics

Microsoft 365 Security Center

The Microsoft 365 security centre helps you to track and manage security across your identities, data, devices, apps, and infrastructure. Security admins can manage devices, get alerts if there’s suspicious activity, and get an all-up view of the security posture in their organization.

The Microsoft 365 security centre provides the following:

• Real-time reports to help you keep on top of issues with users, devices, apps, and infrastructure.
• A Secure Score centralized dashboard where you can monitor and improve the security for your Microsoft 365 identities, data, apps, devices, and infrastructure.
• Insights and recommendations to help you improve your security posture and take advantage of Microsoft 365 security features.
• The ability to configure device and data policies to help you better manage your organization.

Microsoft Secure Score

Microsoft Secure Score gives you robust visualizations, integration with other Microsoft products, comparison of your score with other companies, filtering by category, and much more. With the tool, you can complete security improvement actions within your organization and track the history of your score.

When it comes to defending against cyberattacks, companies need to consider their digital estate. Your digital estate is all the assets you need to help protect. This is a bit different now than it was five or 10 years ago - Microsoft now responsible for protecting a set of technologies you might not own, like user-owned mobile devices that access corporate data.

Feel free to learn more and access the demo. Your smart move may save your business from unexpected threats in the future.