As your organization is gaining more momentum with Microsoft 365, you may have wondered about best practices as it relates to tenant level settings. Many organizations have not made many changes to their settings, and depending on your industry, there are settings that you may want to adjust to better meet your needs.
Kiefer Consulting can help organizations in assuring that their Microsoft 365 tenant level settings are where they need to be. Kiefer’s team of experts will use the Global Reader approach. This approach is the most effective, reduces costs and yields the best results. The Global Reader approach allows the Kiefer team to view (read-only) the entirety of the Microsoft 365 environment.
Every action Kiefer takes is auditable and no personal documentation will be in scope. In general, Kiefer will examine global tenant level settings in Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory. Kiefer will determine the exact number of existing Teams and review all existing retention policies, current settings and permissions in Microsoft 365. The goal will be to determine where the organization is in terms of its compliance goals. The Kiefer team will also be asking a lot of questions and conducting interviews in order to get at the heart of organization’s fundamental concerns.
Standard Assessment Steps
- Determine how content/data is presently secured
- Assess SSL certificates
- Assess authentication policies, procedures, and best practices
- Review and evaluate any existing governance plan/policies
- Provide recommendations around governance best practices
Areas of Specific Interest
The Kiefer team will assess and make recommendations around the following:
- Compliance Management
- Privacy Management
- Records Management
- Insider Risk Management
- Access Management
- Data Classification Analytics
- Data Loss Prevention for Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business
- Encryption for Microsoft 365
- Advanced Message Encryption
- Sensitivity Labeling
- Information Barriers and Governance
Documentation
After the assessment, the Kiefer team will provide documentation that will outline findings, concerns and recommendations. These recommendations can then be used to prioritize and formulate a roadmap that will help your organization in driving the business value of Microsoft 365.
Presentation of Findings
The Kiefer team will present findings from the assessment to key client stakeholders. We encourage organizations to include all staff members that were involved in the assessment to validate, verify, ask questions, and collaborate with the Kiefer team. These sessions are interactive and will provide our client with valuable insight.
This service is a valuable one for any organization that is looking to get more value out of Microsoft 365 and would like the support of a team that has expertise into the depth of tenant level settings in Microsoft 365. Kiefer can help you in identifying what settings might need your immediate attention.