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Microsoft 365 security checklist.

The hardening controls our senior team applies on real Microsoft 365 tenants, identity first, where most breaches start.

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What's inside
§01

What you get.

5 areas
01

Identity & access

MFA via Conditional Access, block legacy auth, PIM for admins.

02

Email & collaboration

SPF/DKIM/DMARC, Safe Links & Attachments, anti-phishing.

03

Data protection

Sensitivity labels, DLP, scoped external sharing.

04

Devices

Intune compliance, disk encryption enforced.

05

Monitoring & recovery

Audit log, Secure Score, third-party M365 backup.

A general, plain-English resource offered as-is, not a substitute for tailored professional advice. We recommend reviewing it against your own environment.

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We do the switch: your current provider, the migration, the handover, all of it. Most teams barely notice the cutover happened.

Everything looked after

On the right plan, compliance, reporting and budgets are handled inside the partnership. You run the business; we run the IT underneath it.

Your QBR writes itself

Quarterly business reviews are generated automatically from your live environment: spend, posture, recommendations and roadmap, ready for the board, reviewed with your account manager.

The honest bit: the full looked-after experience comes with the right plan. We charge fairly for what we take on, and when costs step up it's because you are taking on more, always moving in the right direction.

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