Microsoft 365 Security in Brisbane
Microsoft 365 Security Management
Your Microsoft 365 tenant checked every night against the CIS benchmark, agreed settings put back automatically, evidence ready for insurers. Included in Managed Secure.
Why Microsoft 365 needs its own security layer
Hundreds of settings, built for convenience
Microsoft 365 holds your email, files, Teams chats and sign-ins. It ships with hundreds of settings, and the defaults favour convenience over safety. The breaches we see most often in Queensland businesses start here: a legacy sign-in protocol left on, a mailbox quietly forwarding to Gmail, a guest link to a folder nobody remembers.
Somebody has to keep checking
Microsoft gives you the tools. Somebody still has to check them, every day, and put them back when they drift.
Learn more about the console
What we check, every night
We built our own Microsoft 365 security console rather than relying on a vendor dashboard. Every Managed Secure tenant runs through it nightly.
CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark: 100 automated checks across identity, Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, Defender, Intune and Purview, measured against a published, recognised benchmark. You see the score, what passed, what didn’t, and what changed since last month.
Kept secure, automatically
What we lock in and fix:
- Settings that stay put: Your security baseline is locked in: MFA for everyone, legacy sign-ins blocked, guest access restricted, external sharing limited, no self-service app consent. If anyone turns one off, we see it the next morning and put it back.
- Secure Score fixes, applied from the console: More than fifty Microsoft Secure Score improvements can be applied with one click. We measure who would be affected first, so a fix never surprises your staff.
- Admin and sign-in hygiene: Global administrators counted and cloud-only, break-glass accounts verified, privileged roles reviewed, risky sign-ins surfaced daily.
Checked every night
- Email you can trust: SPF, DKIM and DMARC are checked for every domain you own. Forwarding rules and transport rules that leak mail outside the business are flagged.
- Files shared outside the business: Every externally shared file and anonymous link is listed with who shared it, and can be revoked from the console. The kind of evidence Defence Industry Security Program members are asked to show — useful for everyone.
- Teams and Purview: Meeting lobby and anonymous-join rules, external federation, app permissions, DLP and sensitivity label policies, checked alongside the rest.
What you receive
Four documents built from the same live data, each for a different reader. You start with the first; the rest follow as the work moves.
1. Microsoft 365 Security Report
The technical evidence. Every Microsoft 365 setting measured live, with what we measured, what we recommend and where to confirm it in your own portals, plus your Secure Score and CIS benchmark results. Each issued report is kept, so the next one shows what changed. Every change we make in your tenant is logged with who, what, when, and the setting before and after.
For: you and your auditor or insurer’s assessor. When: monthly, and at onboarding. Your free audit is this report, run on your tenant before we first meet.
2. Security roadmap
The plan. Every finding becomes a dated action with an owner, quick wins first. It updates itself from each new report, so finished work stays finished and you can see progress since last quarter.
For: your management team, no technical background needed. When: walked through with you at your quarterly review.
3. Insurance readiness
The twelve questions on a typical cyber insurance proposal form — sign-in protection, backups, threat detection, email filtering, admin access, logging and staff training — answered yes, partial or no from your live tenant data, with the evidence attached.
For: your broker or insurer, and whoever fills in the renewal form. When: before renewal or a new quote.
4. Cybersecurity Review
The whole picture in one document: your Microsoft 365 results together with your Essential Eight computer results, application control and backups.
For: your yearly review, tenders and Defence Industry Security Program evidence. When: once a year, or when a tender asks for proof.
Learn more about our approach
How this is different
- Every night, not once a year: A security audit is a photograph. This is a camera that never switches off.
- Fixed, not just reported: Where a setting has a safe, known fix, we apply it and tell you. Where it needs a conversation, we book one.
- Evidence you can hand to your insurer: Scores and settings are exported straight from your tenant, dated, and tied to a recognised benchmark.
- Built in-house: The console is ours. When Microsoft changes a setting or the benchmark moves, we update the checks ourselves, not at the next contract renewal.
Included in Managed Secure
There is no add-on and no per-user fee. Microsoft 365 security management is part of the Managed Secure plan at $110 per PC per month, alongside application control, DNS filtering and Essential Eight evidence reports.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need Microsoft 365 Business Premium?
Most checks work on any business plan. Defender for Office 365, Intune and Entra ID P1 features need Business Premium or the matching add-on. The console tells you which controls your licence doesn’t cover rather than marking them as failures.
Will you change settings without asking?
Baseline settings you’ve agreed to are kept in place automatically. Anything with a user-facing effect is measured first and applied only after you approve.
Is this the same as an Essential Eight audit?
No. The Essential Eight covers your computers and processes; this covers your Microsoft 365 tenant. Managed Secure includes both, and the evidence lands in one pack.
What about Copilot and AI tools?
We check Copilot’s web-grounding setting and list any consumer AI apps that staff have connected to your tenant, so your data stays inside Microsoft 365.
How do I see the results?
Through your Microsoft 365 Security Report, issued monthly and walked through with you at your quarterly review. Insurance-readiness answers and Essential Eight evidence are issued the same way.
Free Microsoft 365 audit
Find out where your Microsoft 365 stands
Book a free audit and we’ll run your tenant through the console before we meet — you’ll see your score and the three findings that matter most. No obligation, no sales pressure.
