Cloud, Azure & Identity Security
Most organisations running Microsoft 365 and Azure have real security gaps in their configuration. Default settings are not secure settings.
Who this is for: Organisations running Microsoft 365 or Azure that have never had a proper security review of their tenant configuration.
The problem: Default Microsoft 365 and Azure configurations leave real attack surface exposed, especially around identity.
The outcome: A hardened, documented Azure and Microsoft 365 environment your team can operate and maintain.
The problem
Microsoft’s security stack is powerful. It is also complex, and the default configuration of most Microsoft 365 and Azure tenants leaves substantial attack surface exposed. Conditional Access policies that do not cover all authentication paths. PIM not configured. Legacy authentication still enabled. Sentinel deployed but with no tuned analytics rules. Security tools licensed but not switched on.
Business email compromise, ransomware, and identity-based attacks succeed against organisations using Microsoft tools because the tools were enabled, not secured. These are not the same thing.
The problem compounds in organisations that have grown through acquisition or rapid cloud adoption. Multiple tenants, inconsistent Conditional Access policies, guest accounts with no lifecycle management, and admin roles assigned permanently rather than on demand. Most IT teams know these gaps exist. Few have the capacity to close them alongside their other responsibilities.
Identity is the attack path most organisations underinvest in relative to its risk. Entra ID sits in front of email, files, and every connected application, yet Conditional Access is frequently configured with gaps that let an attacker with a stolen password bypass MFA through an unmanaged app or a legacy protocol. One misconfigured policy can undo everything else in the tenant.
Licensing confusion adds further delay. Microsoft 365 and Azure security capability is spread across several licence tiers, and organisations often either pay for capability they never switch on or assume they need a higher tier when the security gain they are chasing is already available in what they hold.
What we do
FortressPoint designs and implements Azure security architecture for enterprises across UK and Nigerian markets. We assess your current tenant configuration against Microsoft Secure Score and your actual threat profile, then close the gaps that carry real risk, not only the ones that move the score.
Our work covers identity security through Entra ID hardening and Conditional Access policy design, privileged access management through PIM configuration and access reviews, endpoint security through Intune MDM and Defender for Endpoint, and SIEM through Microsoft Sentinel with analytics rules mapped to your environment.
For organisations migrating to Azure or adopting Microsoft 365 for the first time, we build the security architecture before the migration starts. For established environments we assess, prioritise, and harden.
Identity and Access Management is a distinct workstream inside every engagement. We map every path into your tenant, close gaps in Conditional Access coverage, remove standing privileged access in favour of PIM-managed, time-limited elevation, and clean up guest accounts and stale permissions that accumulate over time and rarely get reviewed.
We audit your current Microsoft licence tier against the security capability you actually need before recommending any upgrade. Most organisations we work with are using well under half of the security functionality already included in their existing licence.
Who this is for
What you get
Why FortressPoint
We implement rather than only assess. Every engagement ends with controls in place and tested, not a report of what needs to change.
We work with what you have licensed. We will not recommend upgrading to a higher Microsoft licence tier until you have exhausted what your current tier provides. Most organisations have significantly more security capability in their existing licence than they are using.
Every configuration change is documented. Your team will understand what was done, why it was done, and how to maintain it. You are not dependent on us to operate your own environment.
We treat identity as the centre of the architecture, not a checklist item. Conditional Access, PIM, and Entra ID hardening are designed together, because a strong Sentinel deployment cannot compensate for an identity layer that lets an attacker in without triggering an alert.
Common questions
An Azure security consultant reviews your tenant configuration against your Microsoft Secure Score, Conditional Access coverage, privileged access setup, endpoint protection, and logging and monitoring, then maps the findings to your actual threat profile rather than treating every recommendation as equally urgent. The output is a prioritised plan, not just a score.
Entra ID security consulting focuses specifically on identity, the Conditional Access policies, authentication methods, and privileged role assignments that control who can access what. Because identity is the most common initial access path for attackers, we treat it as its own workstream inside a broader Azure and Microsoft 365 security engagement rather than a minor line item.
Microsoft 365 security covers email, Teams, SharePoint, and endpoint protection through Defender and Intune. Azure security covers the cloud infrastructure layer, virtual machines, networking, and Azure-native services. Most organisations need both addressed together, since Entra ID and Conditional Access sit across both and a gap in one affects the other.
Often not immediately. Many organisations already hold licence tiers with substantial unused security capability. We assess what your current tier provides before recommending an upgrade, so any additional spend is based on an actual capability gap rather than an assumption.
Identity and access management consulting covers how your organisation controls who can access which systems and data, including Conditional Access policy design, Privileged Identity Management, Single Sign-On, and access reviews. It applies to both UK and Nigerian organisations running Microsoft 365 or Azure, and is usually the highest-impact area to get right first.
If you are concerned about your Microsoft security configuration or planning an Azure migration, contact us.