Microsoft 365 and Azure Security Assessment
Find out what is actually exposed in your Microsoft environment before you spend another dollar hardening it.
Most organizations do not have a security tooling problem. They have a configuration drift problem, and no current picture of where the gaps are. WME runs a structured evaluation of your Microsoft 365 and Azure tenant, then gives you a prioritized list of what to fix and in what order.
SOC 2 certified
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The Hidden Gap
Why configuration drift beats tooling
Microsoft ships strong security controls. The gaps we find are almost never missing products. They are settings that were correct when they were set and have not been revisited since.
Four issues come up in nearly every tenant we assess:
MFA coverage with holes in it
Enabled, but with exclusions that were meant to be temporary.
Standing privileged access
Admin roles assigned permanently rather than activated when needed.
Guest access that accumulated
External accounts from projects that ended, still holding access.
Sharing policies set years ago
Defaults that made sense before the tenant held what it holds now.
What the assessment covers
Time required from you
Roughly one to two hours for a collaborative review of the findings. The collection and analysis happen on our side.
You receive
- A full configuration review across Microsoft 365 and Azure
- User access and privileged role analysis
- Identity and authentication posture, including MFA and Conditional Access coverage
- Data governance and sharing exposure
- A prioritized remediation list, ordered by risk and effort
- A structured workbook covering every component reviewed
What a security assessment can and cannot fix
| Enforceable by policy | Needs a process change first |
|---|---|
| MFA enforcement and Conditional Access rules | Privileged role assignment practices, including who approves and how long access lasts |
| Legacy authentication blocking | Offboarding discipline for departing staff and ended projects |
| External sharing defaults and link expiry | Guest access reviews, which need an owner and a recurring cadence |
| DLP policy scope and sensitivity labeling | Deciding what actually counts as sensitive in your organization |
| Audit log retention and alerting | Someone reading the alerts and acting on them |
| Device compliance and enrollment baselines | BYOD policy and what you are willing to enforce on personal devices |
Swipe sideways to see the full table.
The right column is where most assessments quietly fail. We put it in the report and we tell you which items need a decision from you before any technical work is worth doing.
When organizations call us
If you run internal IT
- You are evaluating Microsoft 365 Copilot and need to know what is over-shared before you enable it
- An auditor, a client, or a cyber insurance renewal asked for evidence you cannot currently produce
- Your tenant has been through a merger, an acquisition, or heavy staff turnover
- You inherited the environment and have no documentation of why anything is configured the way it is
- You are pursuing SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST, or CMMC alignment and need a baseline
If you are an MSP, VAR, or consultancy
- A client needs a security assessment and you do not have Microsoft security depth on staff
- You want an independent evaluation to support a remediation proposal you are putting to a client
- You need delivery capacity for an assessment you have already sold
- You want the work done under your name, with your client relationship protected
From Data to Decisions
How WME works
Collect
A consultant acquires access to the environment and runs scripted collection against your tenant.
Analyze
We produce a written report covering every component reviewed, with findings noted against current Microsoft guidance.
Review
One to two hours together, walking the findings and agreeing what matters most.
OPTIONAL
Remediate
We implement the agreed critical and high-risk items, or hand the report to your team to execute.
- Microsoft is the only ecosystem we work in. That is the whole reason we can tell you which Defender capabilities your current licensing actually includes rather than selling you a tier you do not need.
Objections worth answering directly
We already have Defender and Purview.
So do most organizations we assess. The question is whether the policies are scoped to everything you think they are scoped to, and whether anyone has checked since they were turned on.
Will this turn into a sales pitch for remediation work?
The report is yours. It is written so your own team can execute it. If you want us to implement, we will quote it. If you do not, the assessment still stands on its own.
We are a partner. Will you approach our client directly?
No. Partner-delivered engagements run under your relationship.
In practice
Banking, post-breach
A client requested a full infrastructure evaluation following a security breach, then asked us to implement the findings. We used eDiscovery to establish what had been accessed, identified the compromised data elements, and blacklisted the IP addresses the attackers used. We ran daily progress calls and completed the work in two weeks against a typical four to six week timeline. Overall Compliance Score moved from 21% to 99%.
Engineering, under active attack
A client facing sustained spam, ransomware, and phishing needed vulnerabilities remediated and devices brought under management. We secured the environment, raised their security maturity level by two, and deployed Intune enrollment across their estate.
Human resources, SOC 2 deadline
A client needed SOC 2 certification before a customer would buy. They had a compliance platform but no internal security expertise to act on it. We ran our standard evaluation, built an implementation plan against the findings, and mapped their internal accomplishments into the product. The engagement incorporated CCPA, GDPR, NIST, HIPAA, FedRAMP-M, and SOC 2 into one structure.
