Security
Microsoft 365 Security
Most organisations are already licensed for far more security than they have switched on. Valto secures the Microsoft environment you already pay for. We assess where you stand against Microsoft's baselines, CIS benchmarks and Cyber Essentials, harden identity and access, configure Defender and Intune properly rather than at default, and classify the data your AI can now reach. We do not sell security software, so when we tell you your licences already cover what you need, there is nothing in it for us either way.
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Secure what you already own, before buying anything new
Most security gaps in a Microsoft environment are not missing products. They are default settings that were never changed, permissions granted individually over several years, accounts holding more access than anyone remembers approving, policies applied to part of the estate, and alerts arriving somewhere nobody looks. That is not a criticism of anybody. Tenants grow through projects, acquisitions and staff changes, and each one leaves something behind. The result is an environment that looks configured and is inconsistent underneath. Valto establishes where you actually stand, using Microsoft's own measures and recognised external benchmarks, then agrees with you what to fix and in what order. Most of what we recommend is capability you are already licensed for. Where something genuinely needs buying, we will say so and set out the options costed. The outcome is a documented position rather than a vague sense of improvement: what was changed, what it protects against, what is outstanding, and who owns it.
Specialist expertise across Microsoft 365 security
Rather than presenting a list of Microsoft security products, we identify the work that closes the most exposure for your organisation. Each area below is a service in its own right and most engagements combine two or three.
Security assessment
A comprehensive review of your Microsoft 365 and Entra ID environment against Microsoft's recommended baselines, the CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark and your own risk position, delivered as a scored, prioritised findings report. This is where most engagements start.
Learn more →Identity and access
Multi-factor authentication with no gaps, conditional access that reflects how your people actually work, legacy authentication closed off, and guest and external access reviewed rather than accumulated.
Privileged access
Who holds administrative rights, whether they need them permanently, and what happens when they leave. Reducing standing privilege is the single highest-impact change in most environments.
Security hardening and remediation
Implementing the changes an assessment identifies, in an order that closes real exposure without generating a support queue.
Microsoft Defender
Deploying, configuring and tuning Defender for Office 365, Endpoint, Identity and Cloud Apps, and agreeing who acts on what the alerts produce.
Microsoft Intune and endpoint management
Device compliance and security baselines, zero-touch provisioning with Autopilot, application protection on personal devices, and coverage across the devices you do not own.
Microsoft Purview and data protection
Sensitivity labels, data loss prevention and retention, which together determine what your data is, where it can go and what Microsoft 365 Copilot can surface.
Cyber Essentials and compliance readiness
Mapping your environment against Cyber Essentials, the CIS benchmark and customer security questionnaires, closing the gaps and leaving you with the evidence.
Our security services
Time with your team
A structured session covering your current position, your obligations, what your licences already include and where the obvious exposure sits. You leave with a written summary and a prioritised shortlist. Best for organisations who want a straight conversation before committing to anything, or who need something to take to a board.
Why work with Valto on security?
All Microsoft Solution Partner designations
We hold every Microsoft Solution Partner designation across all pathways, which puts us among a small number of UK partners. Several of our projects are published in the UK case studies section of Microsoft's own website.
Mapped to standards somebody else recognises
Microsoft's recommended baselines, the CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark and Cyber Essentials technical controls, so findings carry weight with auditors, insurers and customers rather than being one supplier's view.
Prioritised, not exhaustive
Every environment has dozens of possible improvements. We tell you which ten matter most for your organisation rather than handing over a two-hundred-item export.
WHAT WE TYPICALLY FIND
The gaps that are easy to miss and hard to explain
Very little of what we find is a missing product. It is settings left at default, access granted for a reason that no longer applies, and policies applied to part of the estate and never finished.
- Multi-factor authentication covering most people, with exceptions nobody has revisited
- More permanent global administrators than anyone would approve today
- Accounts belonging to people who left, still licensed and still enabled
- Conditional access either absent, or broad enough to protect very little
- Security capability paid for in existing licences and never switched on
Turn security work into business value
Security work is easier to fund when it is clear what changes. These are the outcomes it is for.
How we deliver security projects
From establishing what you are being asked to prove, through to a documented position and a review cycle that keeps it there.
1Scoping
Establish what you need to prove, and to whom
A workshop or short conversation to establish your obligations, deadlines, licensing position and which framework you are measured against. This determines the scope and avoids paying for depth you do not need.
2Assessment
Establish the current position
A review of identity, access, devices, email, data and governance against Microsoft's baselines, the CIS benchmark and your own risk profile, with read-only access, removed when the assessment completes.
3Prioritisation
Agree what matters, and in what order
Not everything is worth doing, and not everything is worth doing now. We work through the findings with you, weighing impact, effort, licence coverage and operational disruption.
4Remediation
Implement without disrupting people
The agreed changes made in controlled phases, piloting anything that affects sign-in or day-to-day working before it reaches everybody.
5Ongoing review
Keep the position from decaying
Configuration drifts, accounts accumulate and Microsoft's recommendations change. We review periodically and report in a form you can pass upwards.
We're one of the UK's few Microsoft partners to hold all Microsoft Solution Partner designation badges, across all Solution Partner designation pathways. For our clients, that means working with specialists who understand how identity, devices, data and applications fit together rather than treating security as a separate technical exercise. Whether you're preparing for certification, responding to a customer questionnaire, getting ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot, or simply want a straight answer about where you stand, we secure the Microsoft platform you already run.
WHY ORGANISATIONS CHOOSE VALTO
CONNECTED, ACROSS MICROSOFT
Security is a configuration problem across everything, not a product you add
Identity sits in Entra ID. Devices sit in Intune. Email and threat detection sit in Defender. Content sits in SharePoint and OneDrive. Classification sits in Purview. Infrastructure sits in Azure. A gap in any one of them is reachable through the others, which is why hardening one area at a time tends to move the risk rather than remove it. Valto brings together expertise across Microsoft 365, Azure, Entra ID, Intune, Defender, Purview and Microsoft 365 Copilot. That lets our specialists see how an access decision affects collaboration, how a sharing setting affects Copilot, and how an infrastructure change affects the identity model, rather than treating each as somebody else's area. The result is a consistent position across the estate, and a documented understanding of what protects what.
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Questions, answered plainly
Practical answers on where to start, what your licences already cover, what an assessment involves, and what we do and do not do.
BOOK A SECURITY WORKSHOP
Find out where you actually stand
Whether you're responding to a customer questionnaire, preparing for Cyber Essentials, working through an insurance renewal, getting ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot, or you simply want a straight answer to take to your board, start with a conversation rather than a purchase.
Microsoft security specialists
Speak directly with consultants who assess and configure these environments every day.
No obligation to remediate with us
The assessment is scoped and priced as standalone work, and written to be useful whoever does the fixing.