Microsoft Security Assessment

Are You Ready for Cyber Insurance Compliance?

A structured Microsoft cloud security assessment that validates your controls, closes critical gaps, and produces the evidence insurers require.

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Security Assurance Insurers Trust

Cyber insurers are raising the bar. MFA, privileged access controls, endpoint protection, and incident response readiness are now baseline requirements — not optional. Our Microsoft Security Assessment gives you a comprehensive, evidence-based view of your security posture across identity, endpoint, email, and cloud. Every finding is mapped to regulatory frameworks your insurer recognises, and we deliver a clear remediation roadmap with the documentation needed to validate coverage.

Why Organizations Fail Cyber Insurance Audits

Insurers increasingly demand proof of security controls — not just attestations. These are the most common gaps we uncover.

Incomplete MFA Coverage

Admin and privileged accounts without phishing-resistant MFA are the single most common underwriting failure point.

No Privileged Access Management

Standing admin access without just-in-time controls signals unacceptable lateral movement risk to underwriters.

Gaps in Endpoint Detection

Unmanaged or unprotected endpoints without EDR coverage are a key flag in modern cyber insurance underwriting.

Missing Audit Logs & Retention

Insurers require demonstrable logging and retention — the ability to reconstruct a breach timeline within 30–90 days.

No Incident Response Plan

Without a tested IR plan and defined escalation paths, insurers view your organization as a higher claims risk.

Unvalidated Compliance Claims

Self-reported compliance without evidence — scan outputs, policy configs, audit logs — will not satisfy modern underwriters.

9-Phase Assessment Execution

A structured, evidence-based process covering every layer of your Microsoft environment — from identity to endpoint to cloud.

1

Pre-Engagement & Scoping

Stakeholder kickoff to define scope, regulatory goals, and read-only access authorization across your Microsoft tenant(s).

Deliverables
  • Scope document & Statement of Work
  • Authorization to assess
  • Tenant inventory
2

Tenant & Asset Inventory

Enumerate all identities, workloads, endpoints, and sensitive data across Microsoft Entra ID, M365, and Azure.

Deliverables
  • Identity register
  • Cloud asset map
  • Critical data inventory
3

Threat Modeling

Identify realistic Microsoft cloud attack paths — token theft, consent phishing, MFA fatigue, and over-privileged service principals.

Deliverables
  • Microsoft cloud threat model
  • Identity attack path diagrams
  • High-risk scenario list
4

Identity & Access Review

Validate MFA enforcement, conditional access, privileged roles, guest access, legacy auth blocking, and identity lifecycle controls.

Deliverables
  • Privileged access risk report
  • MFA coverage analysis
  • Identity hardening recommendations
5

Microsoft Security Stack Review

Validate Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel SIEM/SOAR, and Defender for Cloud posture coverage across identity, endpoint, and email.

Deliverables
  • Security posture scorecard
  • Control gaps & tuning plan
  • Detection maturity review
6

Configuration Validation

Review Azure security baselines, conditional access design, Intune endpoint compliance, DLP, sensitivity labels, and audit logging.

Deliverables
  • Misconfiguration findings
  • Policy coverage gaps
  • Security control maturity score
7

Risk Scoring & Prioritization

Assign likelihood and business impact scores, categorize findings (Critical / High / Medium / Low), and build a prioritized remediation backlog.

Deliverables
  • Risk heat map
  • Prioritized remediation backlog
  • Executive risk summary
8

Remediation Roadmap

30/60/90-day Microsoft hardening plan mapping each task to effort, owner, risk reduction, and cyber insurance control requirements.

Deliverables
  • 90-day Microsoft security roadmap
  • Hardening checklist
  • KPI & maturity targets
9

Executive Reporting

Business-ready outputs tailored for leadership, legal, compliance teams, and cyber insurance underwriters.

Deliverables
  • Executive PDF report
  • Technical PDF + Word report
  • Risk register (insurance-ready)

Frameworks We Map To

Every finding is mapped to the relevant framework control so your insurer, auditor, or regulator can trace evidence directly to requirements.

ISO 27001 Information Security Management
NIST CSF Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
PCI DSS Payment Card Industry
HIPAA Health Data Protection
SOC 2 Trust Service Criteria
CIS Controls v8 Implementation Groups

What You'll Walk Away With

Tangible, insurance-ready outputs your team can act on immediately.

Cyber Insurance Readiness Report

A structured evidence package mapped to common underwriting questionnaire requirements.

Full Microsoft Security Posture Assessment

Comprehensive review across identity, endpoint, email, cloud, and data environments.

Risk-Ranked Findings

Every finding scored by likelihood and business impact so you fix the right things first.

90-Day Hardening Roadmap

An actionable 30/60/90-day Microsoft-specific remediation plan with owner assignments.

Regulatory Framework Mapping

Findings cross-referenced to ISO 27001, NIST, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and CIS Controls.

Executive & Technical Reports

Two formats — one for leadership and insurers, one for your security and IT teams.

Engagement Structure

Designed to be thorough yet efficient — minimum disruption, maximum evidence.

Duration

1-4

Weeks delivered in structured phases with defined milestones and a final readout session.

Collaborative Hours

~80

Hours of scheduled sessions covering kickoff, review phases, risk walkthrough, and executive readout.

Who Should Participate

CIO CISO CSO IT Security IT Operations Security Architects IAM Admins SOC Engineers Compliance Lead Legal / Risk

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