Critical applications, sensitive data, complex infrastructure and directory services are making their home in the cloud at a rapid rate. With more remote workers and mobile devices, cloud security must be at the forefront rather than an afterthought.
As innovators come into the market on an almost quarterly basis, it can be difficult to understand what is the best approach to move forward. Enter our team of Microsoft-certified cloud security experts. We’re here to help your organization gain control of your Azure environment with a “Security First” approach.
Our Microsoft cloud security services are broken down into 4 pillars: Compliance, Identity, Security Operations, and Visibility. At the foundation of those four pillars is GuidePoint Security’s expertise with the Microsoft suite of security offerings.
Keeping up to date with current and emerging technologies is critical for any security organization. As a Microsoft Certified Partner, we can help you understand the evolving cloud landscape and how best to secure it via:
A critical part of securing a cloud environment is having a thorough understanding of the current state. We offer multiple ways to assess your Microsoft Cloud environment:
Whether you are looking for a full cloud cybersecurity strategy or a prioritized roadmap, we can help you plan and design your ideal Microsoft Cloud environment.
Our Microsoft Cloud experts can help ensure that security is built into your environment.
It’s difficult to know where to go if you don’t know where you are. Meeting your compliance needs includes understanding your current level of risk and what updates may be needed. Microsoft Purview risk and compliance solutions help you manage and monitor your data, protect information, minimize compliance risks, and meet regulatory requirements with Microsoft 365 or non-Microsoft products or services.
Our team of Microsoft Cloud experts can help you maintain compliance by assessing where your organization stands, working to improve your compliance, and ensuring continuous compliance monitoring.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) for all of your Azure, on-premises, and multi-cloud (Amazon AWS and Google GCP) resources. It helps streamline the process for meeting regulatory compliance requirements, using the regulatory compliance dashboard. Defender for Cloud continuously assesses your hybrid cloud environment to analyze the risk factors according to the controls and best practices in the standards that you’ve applied to your subscriptions, while the dashboard reflects the status of your compliance with these standards.
We can help you assess your organization’s current compliance standing, work to improve your compliance, continually monitor your compliance, and ultimately keep your organization in compliance.
Just as cloud adoption is a journey, cloud security is also an ongoing journey of incremental progress and maturity.
Our 5 phased approach to cloud security provides a vision of the complete end state to guide the improvement of your security program over time. The Cloud Adoption Framework provides security guidance for this security journey by providing clarity for the processes, best practices, models, and experiences. This guidance is based on the lessons learned and real-world experiences, Microsoft’s security journey, and work with organizations like NIST, The Open Group, and the Center for Internet Security (CIS).
Our team offers end-to-end services from assessment and planning to implementation and optimization during your cloud adoption.
Our team of cloud experts can help with your adoption strategies by using methodologies that ensure your cloud adoption is secured as your journey progresses and matures over time. GuidePoint Security uses well-planned adoption strategies in phased approaches that include the implementation of top-priority security capabilities in staged approaches in logical orders over time.
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management service. This Azure cloud app security service helps your employees access external resources, such as Microsoft 365, the Azure portal, and thousands of other SaaS applications. Azure Active Directory also enables access to internal resources, along with any cloud apps developed for your own organization.
GuidePoint’s security services include assessment and planning support as well as support for Azure Active Directory implementation and optimization.
The modern security perimeter now extends beyond an organization’s network to include user and device identity. Organizations can use identity-driven signals as part of their access control decisions.
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Conditional Access analyzes signals such as user, device, and location to automate decisions and enforce organizational access policies for resources. Conditional Access policies allow you to build conditions that manage security controls that can block access, require multi-factor authentication, or restrict the user’s session when needed and stay out of the user’s way when not.
We provide end-to-end planning and assessment support as well as optimization and implementation support for organizations working with Azure AD conditional access policies.
Microsoft Entra Permissions Management (formerly CloudKnox) will be a standalone offering that is integrated within the Microsoft Defender for Cloud dashboard, extending Defender for Cloud’s protection with CIEM. Our team of experts delivers end-to-end services from assessment and planning to implementation and optimization for your adoption of Microsoft Entra Permissions Management.
Microsoft Entra Verified ID, based on decentralized identity standards, implements the industry standards that make portable, self-owned identity possible. We provide end-to-end services from assessment and planning to implementation and optimization for your adoption of the Microsoft Entra Verified ID.
Microsoft Purview Privileged Access Management (PAM) allows granular access control over privileged admin tasks in Office 365. It can help protect your organization from breaches that use existing privileged admin accounts with standing access to sensitive data or access to critical configuration settings. Privileged access management requires users to request just-in-time access to complete elevated and privileged tasks through a highly scoped and time-bounded approval workflow. This configuration gives users just-enough-access to perform the task at hand, without risking exposure of sensitive data or critical configuration settings.
Our end-to-end services include the planning and assessment of Microsoft Purview PAM as well as the implementation and optimization for its adoption.
Out of the box, Defender for Cloud Apps can monitor and report on thousands of potential cloud applications you may use. GuidePoint Security’s Microsoft Cloud Services team will help you determine which applications you need to monitor with Defender, configure your alerting and notifications to avoid alert fatigue, and turn your alerts into actionable data you can use.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a cross-platform endpoint security solution for your organization, working across all the devices and operating systems you may have in use. Our Microsoft Cloud Services team works with you to navigate the deployment process and migrate from other tools, assess your configuration, and review your architecture and deployment to get the most from Defender for Endpoint’s EDR, Threat and Vulnerability Management, and Attack Surface Reduction capabilities.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is an all-in-one ATP solution for the Office 365 applications suite, covering everything from email filtering and phishing protection to malicious document prevention and DLP. Our Microsoft Cloud services include deployment and migration from other tools, security and implementation reviews, and configuration based on industry security frameworks such as NIST, HIPAA, or ISO-27001.
Cloud-based MDM and MAM solution to manage all of your organization’s endpoints including laptops, tablets, and mobile devices. GuidePoint Security offers end-to-end services from assessment and planning to implementation and optimization for your MDM and MAM security needs. Our baseline quick-start packages for iOS and Android cover both BYOD and COD to secure the largest portion of your organization’s mobile devices and get you up and running as quickly as possible.
Implementing and configuring SIEM and SOAR platforms is never an easy task, but GuidePoint Security’s expert Microsoft Cloud Services team can help you deploy Sentinel, select, and implement the proper 3rd-party data connectors, and align your configurations to industry standards with ongoing support.
RiskIQ Intelligence integration combines and enriches Microsoft’s Security Ecosystem and Azure Sentinel with petabytes of external security intelligence, helping security teams understand how internal assets interact with external infrastructure so they can better detect and prevent attacks.
GuidePoint Security can help you with the integration of RiskIQ with Microsoft Security Solutions such as Microsoft Sentinel.
The distributed, highly accessible nature of cloud deployments makes proper Identity and Access Management implementation more important than ever. We can assist your organization with the deployment and configuration of Defender for Identity or assess your current implementation to ensure it is built on best practices and make recommendations for improvement.
GuidePoint Security’s Microsoft Cloud team will help you determine if you have taken the right steps to secure Azure. Our Azure Health Check provides an analysis of industry foundational Azure security controls in addition to security controls recommended by GuidePoint Security based on our experience.
We will analyze your results and prepare a report with information that’s easy to understand and act on, we will take you through the report providing help with how to interpret the results and advice on what you need to do next. Additionally, we can then work through the options for remediation of any issues and build on your successes toward a well-maintained tenant.
GuidePoint Security’s Microsoft Cloud team will help you determine if you have taken the right steps to secure Microsoft 365. Our Microsoft 365 Health Check provides an analysis of industry foundational Microsoft 365 security controls in addition to security controls recommended by GuidePoint Security based on our experience.
We prepare reports based on the analysis of your results that are simple to understand and act on. Our experts will walk you step-by-step through the report so that you can interpret its results and understand what you need to do next. We also take you through options for remediation regarding potential issues in order to build on toward a well-maintained tenant.
Out of the box, Defender for Cloud Apps can monitor and report on thousands of potential cloud applications you may use. GuidePoint Security’s Microsoft Cloud Services team will help you determine which applications you need to monitor with Defender, configure your alerting and notifications to avoid alert fatigue, and turn your alerts into actionable data you can use.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud gives your company a high-level view of your cloud security posture and offers solutions for common cloud misconfigurations without impacting business operations. Our expert team will work with your organization to review your cloud security architecture, prioritize risks, deploy Defender for Cloud according to best cloud workload practices, and help connect your cloud and on-premises environments with Azure Arc.
Our team of certified experts can help you plan and implement any Microsoft Cloud engineering needs, providing you with more maturity and security inside your environment. We collaborate with your team, help lead engineering activities and work independently to solve some of the most complex Microsoft Cloud engineering problems.
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