Reviewing and Taking Action to Improve the Microsoft Secure Score in the Microsoft 365 Defender Portal
Microsoft 365 has several security features that can be configured in different ways, depending on an organization’s requirements. However, many organizations aren’t up to date on all the settings, the order in which the settings need to be addressed, and how they might impact the user experience.
Additionally, organizations are faced with the following questions:
- How can they understand the current security best practices?
- How does their current deployment compare to the best practices?
- What are the steps necessary to proactively configure security controls?
Secure Score is a Microsoft 365 capability that contains a list of security-focused features and configuration recommendations. Each recommendation or setting is assigned a point value. Secure Score compares an organization’s current settings against the Microsoft-recommended best...
