Hardening

Microsoft 365 hardening baselines for MSP customer tenants

Apply and verify Microsoft 365 hardening controls across customer workspaces: identity enforcement, sharing limits, admin protection, and baseline configuration reviewed through scheduled assessments.

Hardening priorities for MSPs

Legacy authentication

Identify tenants where legacy auth protocols remain enabled.

MFA enforcement

Verify authentication method coverage and policy enforcement.

External sharing

Review sharing settings that affect data exposure.

Admin account protection

Assess privileged role assignments and admin account hygiene.

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Assessment-based verification

Scheduled Microsoft 365 assessments check tenant configuration against posture baselines and surface gaps as findings.

Drift detection

When hardening controls regress between reviews, monitoring and reassessment surface the change for MSP triage.

Per-customer context

Hardening posture is tracked per customer workspace so teams can apply different baseline tiers by customer size or contract.

Hardening in customer reporting

Findings output
Open hardening gaps appear in findings with remediation guidance.
Secure Score actions
Microsoft improvement actions complement hardening review.
Report inclusion
Hardening status included in customer-ready reports.
Activity tracking
Organization activity log records assessment and review events.

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