Security
Security Hardening
Most organisations are already licensed for far more security than they have switched on. Valto hardens the Microsoft environment you already pay for: identity and conditional access, privileged accounts, endpoints, email, data protection and the governance around them. We start by establishing where you actually stand, tell you the ten things that would improve it most, and then implement them in an order that does not interrupt the working day.
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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 with more access than anyone remembers approving, and policies applied to some of the estate but not all of it. 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 our own assessment, 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 we will say why. The outcome is a documented position rather than a vague sense of improvement: what was changed, what it protects against, what is still outstanding and who owns it.
What can Valto harden?
Our specialists assess each area against Microsoft's recommended baselines and your own risk position, then agree what to change and in what order. Every engagement is scoped around what you are licensed for and what your organisation can absorb.
Identity and conditional access
Multi-factor authentication coverage with no gaps, conditional access policies that reflect how your people actually work, legacy authentication closed off, and guest and external access reviewed rather than accumulated.
Privileged and administrative access
Who holds administrative rights, whether they need them permanently, and what happens when they leave. We reduce standing privilege, separate day-to-day accounts from admin accounts, and put approval and time limits around elevated access.
Endpoint security and management
Device compliance, encryption, patching, and Defender for Endpoint configured and actually reporting, applied consistently across corporate and personal devices through Intune rather than to whichever machines happened to be enrolled.
Email and collaboration protection
Defender for Office 365 policies, anti-phishing and impersonation protection, safe links and attachments, external sender warnings, and the mail authentication records (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) that stop your domain being used against your customers.
Data protection and oversharing
Sensitivity labelling, data loss prevention, and remediation of the sharing links, "everyone" permissions and orphaned sites that quietly make internal content available far more widely than anyone intended.
Governance, monitoring and evidence
Audit logging retained for long enough to be useful, alerting that reaches a person, and a documented record of configuration and change, so that the next questionnaire, audit or insurance renewal can be answered from a file rather than from memory.
Cyber Essentials and questionnaire readiness
We map your Microsoft environment against the Cyber Essentials technical controls, close the gaps, and give you the evidence needed for certification and for the supply chain security questionnaires customers increasingly send.
Our security hardening services
Establish where you actually stand
We review your Microsoft environment against Microsoft's recommended baselines, your Secure Score and your own risk position, covering identity, access, devices, email, data and governance. You get a prioritised findings report with each item scored by impact and effort, what it protects against, and whether your existing licences already cover it. Useful whether or not you do the remediation with us.
Why work with Valto's security specialists?
We start with what you already own
Most of what we recommend is capability included in licences you already pay for. Where something genuinely needs buying, we will tell you what and why, and we have no product to sell you.
Scope and cost agreed before work begins
Our proposals set out the approach, deliverables and cost up front, including what is in scope and what is not, so a security engagement does not become open-ended.
Prioritised by impact, not by checklist
Every environment has dozens of possible improvements. We tell you which ten matter most for your organisation, rather than handing you a two-hundred-item report and leaving you to work it out.
Delivered without disrupting people
Access and device policies change how people work. We pilot, communicate and phase anything that affects sign-in or day-to-day working, because a hardening project that generates a support queue gets rolled back.
Evidence you can hand to somebody else
You get documented before-and-after positions, configuration records and the evidence needed for questionnaires, audits and insurance renewals.
Capability across the whole Microsoft estate
Our expertise spans Microsoft 365, Azure, identity, endpoints, data and AI, so security decisions are made with an understanding of what else they affect rather than in isolation.
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COMMON SECURITY CHALLENGES WE SOLVE
Expertise for the gaps that are easy to miss and hard to explain
Most exposure in a Microsoft environment is not the result of a missing product. It comes from settings left at default, access granted for a reason that no longer applies, and policies that were applied to part of the estate and never finished. Our consultants find these during assessment rather than after an incident, an audit or a failed questionnaire. We help organisations address:
- Multi-factor authentication that covers most people, with exceptions nobody has revisited
- Administrative rights held permanently by more people than anyone would approve today
- Accounts belonging to people who left, still licensed and still enabled
- Conditional access either absent, or so broad that it protects very little
- Devices in use that were never enrolled, so no policy reaches them
- Sharing links and "everyone" permissions making internal content far more available than intended
Turn security work into business value
Security work is easier to fund when it is clear what it changes. Our consultants target the improvements that reduce real exposure, answer questions somebody is already asking you, or remove a blocker to something else you want to do.
How we deliver security hardening
From establishing where you actually stand, through to a documented, evidenced position and a review cycle that keeps it there.
1Assessment
Establish the current position
We review identity, access, devices, email, data and governance against Microsoft's recommended baselines, your Secure Score and your own risk profile. You get a scored, prioritised findings report rather than a raw export.
2Prioritisation
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, and agree a sequence.
3Remediation
Implement without disrupting people
We make the agreed changes in controlled phases, piloting anything that affects sign-in or day-to-day working before it reaches everybody, with communications where users will notice.
4Transition
Hand over the evidence and the ownership
We provide configuration documentation, a before-and-after position and the evidence needed for questionnaires and audits, along with clear ownership of what your team now maintains.
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 or simply want to know where you stand, we help organisations secure the Microsoft platform they 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 sits in Defender. Content sits in SharePoint and OneDrive. Data 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, identity, endpoints, data 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.
“Valto recently delivered an excellent Azure Virtual Desktop environment, expertly project managed by Kerina, while the team has also supported us with security hardening across our Microsoft environment. Having worked with a number of Microsoft partners over the years, I can genuinely say that Valto are the best in the business.”
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Find out where you actually stand
Whether you're responding to a customer questionnaire, preparing for certification, working through an insurance renewal, getting ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot, or you simply want a straight answer about your current position, start with an assessment rather than a purchase.
Microsoft security specialists
Speak directly with consultants who configure identity, devices, email and data protection across Microsoft environments every day.
Clear, prioritised recommendations
Understand your current position and the ten things that would improve it most, before committing to any remediation work.
Start with what you own
We establish what your existing licences already cover before recommending anything new.