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Is your Microsoft Secure Score low?

Hariom Jindal

Microsoft Secure Score

Microsoft Secure Score benefits you to advance your Microsoft Office 365 Security posture in numerous ways by recognizing possible issues before they become a problem, by making suggestions as to which settings need to be changed to implement better security controls by mapping your current status so you have a baseline against which you can chart your security improvements, allowing you to compare your organization’s Secure Score to others within the similar industry and size, so you have a better understanding of what’s considered to be the norm and displaying a history and current security status which is useful for auditing purposes.

Understanding Secure Score Dashboard

Microsoft Secure Score dashboard helps the customer to assess whole environment security health in one place. Secure Score gives an overview, highlight improvement actions and show the history of how your Office 365 tenant performing into security space.

How to access Secure Score Dashboard?

This is very simple. You just go to your internet browser and type: https://security.microsoft.com/securescore?viewid=overview

Once you enter your Office 365 Admin Credentials, you will see this page which is called Secure Score Overview Dashboard:

What are the key areas Microsoft looks and gives you a secure score?

Microsoft Secure Score fetches the information from 5 key areas and their sub-areas which can be compromised if Security Best Practice not applied.

What are the key categories under sources Secure Score rates?

Identity

Data

Device

Apps

Infrastructure

This is mainly for Azure Resources other than Active Directory.

What the core service source Microsoft secure score collect the information?

Improvement Action Centre

This tab will show you what are the action items you can consider improving your environment IT security. You should refer your IT Security & Compliance policy as well before taking any actions:

In the improvement actions, you can filter actions by Category, Impact, Cost, Source and Status. This makes Security/IT Admin life so easy since he/she can filter and export selection items for internal review and change submission.

History

This history center you can use to review your security implementation/deployment performance for 90days. This is really helpful to track secure score improvement:

Is there any negative impact if I follow Microsoft Secure Score dashboard action plane and execute all of them?

This is always good if you follow Microsoft Recommendation, but you also need to make sure your other 3rd Party application, tools or services should not impact.

For example, you have Implemented MFA for all applications and resources which gave you a full score but some of your 3rd party applications stopped working. In such a case, best to contact with the service provider and run the complete test before making changes into production.

 

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