Office 365 Security Review
O365 is a fantastic resource for modern companies. Our team has a thorough Office 365 security review and configuration process to assess all aspects and identify any threats or areas for improvement in your Office 365.
If you have any concerns regarding your Microsoft safety from threat actors, cyber criminals, or other potential issues, our team can help you with your security controls.
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Office 365 Overview
Office 365 is a powerful tool that provides all sorts of business services from email to cloud storage, and it’s much more than just another productivity suite.
It provides more than just email and office productivity tools – with over 200 million active users worldwide who are constantly growing their products’ capabilities there really isn’t much missing when compared to Microsoft on-premises solutions (such as Exchange Server).
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Is office 365 email secure?
Whether it’s applications, devices or storage including backups, these are the three main categories where email data resides. Before understanding whether Office 365 is secure or not, it’s important to understand the cloud model concept. Just like major cloud providers, Microsoft provides an in-built tool that can be used to assess a company’s security posture and office 365 review when it comes to its O365 services and provides improvement ideas. Also, Microsoft Office offers this product as part of a shared responsibility model in cloud computing. This means:
Cloud provider is responsible for security of the cloud Tenant or organisation client is responsible for security in the cloud
Common O365 security misconfigurations and vulnerabilities
Our certified security professionals will perform an office 365 security review to identify misconfigurations that may have occurred. Also, We’ve been able to handle our cloud security with the Office 365 Security and Compliance center better. It is very common for potential threats to be found during pentesting office 365 process, and our team will support the mitigation of these cyber threats by utilizing the Microsoft secure score.
Oftentimes, we discover in O365 pentesting that users have incorrect system access controls, which leaves businesses unsafe from many potential dangers. Actual vulnerabilities identified within the product had also increased the attack surface for Office 365 users. Some of these recent flaws include improper validation (CVE-2020-16875) and smart bypass issues (CVE-2020-171324). Common Office365 misconfigurations include lack of multi-factor authentication for administrator account, password sync and mailbox auditing.
This thorough office 365 security review includes vendor cyber security best practices including but not limited to the following security review areas:
- Accounts and authentication policies
- Email cyber security configuration review and Exchange Online Protection
- Mobile Device Management Areas
- Data and secure storage management
- Application permissions
- Auditing configuration & monitoring controls
- O365 Active Directory related security concerns
Benefits of Office 365 Security Assessment
An Office 365 security assessment can help you ensure that your secure email strategy is effective by identifying gaps in your security posture and providing recommendations for improvement.
An Office 365 security assessment can help you validate the effectiveness of your Office 365 security controls by testing them against known vulnerabilities and best practices.
An Office 365 security assessment can help you ensure that you are using strong authentication and data encryption practices by reviewing your current security practices and providing recommendations for improvement. It is advised to enable multi-factor authentication.
An Office 365 security assessment can help you ensure that you have sufficient logging and monitoring to detect and respond to cybersecurity incidents quickly and effectively.
An Office 365 security assessment can help you review user permissions and add-ons to ensure that users only have access to the resources they need and that add-ons are not posing a security risk.
An Office 365 security assessment can help you minimise the chances of account takeover cyberattacks and ransomware by identifying and addressing any security vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit.
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Follow best security practices
o365 security assessment findings are mostly around areas described under common misconfiguration. As a standard best practice checklist, an Office 365 installation should follow the following areas:
- Unified Audit Logging
- Multi-Factor Authentication
- Privileged accounts management
- Protecting against malware using features based on subscriptions such as anti-phishing, auto-forwarding, ATP safe attachments and ATP safe links.
Microsoft Office 365 provides cloud resources, securing it is your responsibility.
O365 Pentesting Methodology
Our pentesting office 365 approach involves benchmark-based o365 security assessment as well as standard pentest methodology extended to include Microsoft office cloud-specific cyber security risks and compliance center issues in office 365 review. We support industry-leading testing standards and methodologies for o365 pentesting:
- OWASP
- Mitre Att&ck Framework
- NIST SP 800-115
Generally, these include checks on the use of higher privilege administrator accounts, use of MFA, password policy, IAM policies, access keys, conditional access policies, credentials, administrator account usage policies and other security features.
Authentication and authorisation problems are prevalent cyber security risks and compliance centre issues that come in an Office 365 review.
This area in pentesting Office 365 involves checks around network security controls such as ingress, egress rulesets, flow logging, traffic restrictions, and least access privileges.
This phase covers API configuration, log file validation, encryption, access checks, and configuration management for account security and monitoring.
The monitoring phase is one of the critical tasks responsible for alerting relevant contacts during an incident. This involves reliance on the logging and related configuration parameters to ensure the right metric filters are in place.
Why Cypher for Office 365 security review?
Our team of experts has deep knowledge of Office 365 security and has experience conducting security assessments for various organisations.
Our security assessments are comprehensive and cover all aspects of your Office 365 environment, including security controls, user permissions, and add-ons.
Our security assessments provide actionable recommendations for improving your Office 365 security posture.
We are committed to providing our customers with the highest quality of service. We will work with you to understand your specific needs and provide you with a customised solution.
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