Establish a strong security foundation for your environment by adopting a “Security First” mindset. This approach helps you assess, design, and execute a tailored Microsoft Cloud Security Program, ensuring that security is seamlessly integrated into every aspect of your cloud operations.
As critical applications, sensitive data, and complex infrastructures rapidly migrate to the cloud, ensuring robust security is essential. With more remote workers and mobile devices, prioritizing cloud security is no longer optional — it’s a necessity.
With constant innovation in the market, it can be challenging to determine the best path forward. That’s where our team of Microsoft-certified cloud security experts comes in. We are here to guide your organization in securing its Azure environment through a “Security First” approach, empowering you to take control of your cloud security with confidence.
Staying ahead of current and emerging technologies is essential for any security-focused organization. As a Microsoft Certified Partner, we help you navigate the ever-changing cloud landscape, ensuring your environment remains compliant with the latest security standards and best practices.
Securing a cloud environment starts with a deep understanding of your current identity management practices. We offer a range of assessment methods to evaluate and strengthen your Microsoft Cloud environment, ensuring your identity management systems are robust, secure, and compliant with industry standards.
Whether you're seeking a comprehensive cloud cybersecurity strategy or a prioritized roadmap, we can assist you in designing and optimizing your Microsoft Cloud environment to ensure it is secure, efficient, and resilient against potential threats.
Our Microsoft Cloud experts work with you to ensure full visibility into your environment, helping to integrate security measures that enhance monitoring, detection, and response capabilities for a proactive security posture.
Understanding your current compliance standing is essential for navigating regulatory requirements and mitigating risks. Microsoft Purview offers risk and compliance solutions to help manage and monitor your data, safeguard sensitive information, and ensure adherence to regulatory standards, whether you’re using Microsoft 365 or other non-Microsoft services.
Our team of Microsoft Cloud experts is here to assess your organization’s current compliance status, enhance your compliance posture, and provide ongoing monitoring to ensure continuous alignment with regulatory requirements.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers a robust Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) solution that secures your Azure, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments, including AWS and GCP. Its regulatory compliance dashboard simplifies your path to achieving compliance by continuously assessing your cloud infrastructure against established best practices and regulatory standards. The platform analyzes risk factors in your environment and provides real-time insights into your compliance status, ensuring you stay aligned with the necessary regulatory frameworks.
Our team of experts can help you evaluate your current compliance posture, implement improvements, and maintain ongoing monitoring to ensure that your organization consistently meets all regulatory requirements.
Cloud adoption is a progressive journey, and so is cloud security. Securing your cloud environment requires continuous improvement and maturation over time.
Our five-phase cloud security approach offers a comprehensive roadmap, helping you progressively enhance your security posture. With the guidance of Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework, we bring clarity to security processes, best practices, and models, all informed by lessons learned, real-world experiences, and collaboration with entities like NIST, The Open Group, and CIS.
From assessment and planning to implementation and optimization, our team provides end-to-end services to ensure your cloud security evolves and matures in line with your organization’s goals.
Our cloud experts guide your adoption strategy with secure methodologies that evolve as your cloud journey progresses. At GuidePoint Security, we use carefully structured, phased approaches to cloud adoption. This ensures that security capabilities are prioritized and implemented in logical stages, allowing for continuous improvement and maturity as your cloud environment grows.
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management service. This Azure cloud app security service helps your employees access external resources, such as Microsoft 365, the Azure portal, and thousands of other SaaS applications. Azure Active Directory also enables access to internal resources, along with any cloud apps developed for your own organization.
GuidePoint’s security services include assessment and planning support as well as support for Azure Active Directory implementation and optimization.
In today’s security landscape, the perimeter extends beyond traditional network boundaries to include user and device identity. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Conditional Access leverages identity-driven signals—such as user, device, and location—to automate access control decisions and enforce security policies for organizational resources. This enables the creation of flexible conditions to block access, require multi-factor authentication, or restrict user sessions, while minimizing user disruption when heightened security isn’t necessary.
GuidePoint offers comprehensive support, from planning and assessment to optimization and implementation, helping organizations effectively deploy and manage Azure AD Conditional Access policies.
Microsoft Entra Permissions Management (formerly CloudKnox) is a standalone solution that integrates seamlessly with the Microsoft Defender for Cloud dashboard, enhancing protection with Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM). This tool helps organizations manage and govern permissions across multi-cloud environments, ensuring that access is granted based on the least-privilege principle and minimizing the risk of over-permissioned accounts.
Our team offers end-to-end support, from assessment and planning to implementation and optimization, guiding you through the adoption of Microsoft Entra Permissions Management for improved security and compliance.
Microsoft Entra Verified ID leverages decentralized identity standards to enable portable, self-owned identities for individuals and organizations. This solution allows users to have greater control over their personal identity data, ensuring security and privacy while maintaining the ability to verify their identity across multiple platforms.
Our team provides comprehensive services, including assessment, planning, implementation, and optimization, to guide your organization in adopting Microsoft Entra Verified ID for a secure and efficient identity management solution.
Microsoft Purview Privileged Access Management (PAM) helps organizations manage, monitor, and secure privileged access to sensitive resources. By controlling and auditing access to critical systems, PAM reduces the risk of insider threats and unauthorized access, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements. This solution provides just-in-time privileged access, ensuring that users only have access to sensitive resources when necessary, minimizing the potential attack surface.
Our team offers comprehensive support in assessing, planning, implementing, and optimizing Microsoft Purview PAM to help secure your organization’s privileged access and maintain a strong security posture.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps provides visibility and control over the use of cloud applications across your organization. It can monitor thousands of potential cloud applications, helping to identify and mitigate risks associated with shadow IT and cloud app usage. GuidePoint Security’s Microsoft Cloud Services team will work with you to identify the critical applications you need to monitor, configure your alerting and notifications to minimize alert fatigue, and ensure that your alerts provide actionable insights to strengthen your security posture. We offer end-to-end services from assessment and planning to implementation and optimization to make sure you get the most out of Defender for Cloud Apps.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a comprehensive cross-platform endpoint security solution designed to protect your organization’s devices and operating systems. It provides advanced threat protection through capabilities such as Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Threat and Vulnerability Management, and Attack Surface Reduction. GuidePoint Security’s Microsoft Cloud Services team will assist you in deploying Defender for Endpoint, migrating from other security tools, and optimizing your configuration. We also offer thorough reviews of your architecture and deployment to ensure you maximize the effectiveness of Defender for Endpoint in safeguarding your organization’s endpoints from advanced threats.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a comprehensive Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) solution designed to secure the entire Office 365 suite. It offers robust protection across email, documents, and data, including email filtering, phishing defense, malicious document prevention, and data loss prevention (DLP). GuidePoint Security’s Microsoft Cloud services support your deployment and migration from existing tools, as well as conducting security and implementation reviews. We also assist with configuring Microsoft Defender for Office 365 according to industry-leading security frameworks, such as NIST, HIPAA, and ISO-27001, to ensure optimal protection for your organization’s Office 365 environment.
Microsoft Endpoint Manager is a cloud-based Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Mobile Application Management (MAM) solution designed to manage and secure all your organization’s endpoints, including laptops, tablets, and mobile devices. GuidePoint Security offers comprehensive services, from assessment and planning to implementation and optimization, to meet your MDM and MAM security needs. Our quick-start packages for iOS and Android cover both Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Corporate-Owned Devices (COD), allowing you to secure the majority of your organization’s mobile devices and get up and running efficiently.
Implementing and configuring SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) platforms can be complex, but GuidePoint Security’s expert Microsoft Cloud Services team is here to assist. We help you deploy Microsoft Sentinel, select and implement the appropriate third-party data connectors, and align your configurations to industry standards. With our ongoing support, we ensure that Sentinel is optimized to meet your organization’s security needs and compliance requirements.
The integration of RiskIQ Intelligence enhances Microsoft’s Security Ecosystem and Azure Sentinel by enriching it with vast amounts of external security intelligence. This integration helps security teams gain insights into how internal assets interact with external infrastructure, improving their ability to detect and prevent attacks. GuidePoint Security offers expert support to integrate RiskIQ with Microsoft Security Solutions, including Microsoft Sentinel, to strengthen your organization’s threat detection and response capabilities.
With the increasingly distributed and accessible nature of cloud deployments, effective Identity and Access Management (IAM) has never been more critical. GuidePoint Security can assist your organization in deploying and configuring Microsoft Defender for Identity. Additionally, we can assess your current implementation, ensuring it aligns with best practices and providing recommendations for any necessary improvements to enhance your security posture
GuidePoint Security’s Microsoft Cloud team helps assess whether your Azure environment is secure by conducting a comprehensive Azure Health Check. This service analyzes both industry-standard Azure security controls and additional security controls recommended by our experts based on real-world experience. After analyzing your results, we prepare an easy-to-understand report and walk you through it, offering guidance on interpreting the findings and advising on next steps. We can also assist with remediation options to address any security gaps and help you build a more robust, well-maintained Azure tenant.
GuidePoint Security’s Microsoft Cloud team helps evaluate whether your Microsoft 365 environment is properly secured through our Microsoft 365 Health Check. This service includes an analysis of both industry-standard Microsoft 365 security controls and additional best practices recommended by our experts based on extensive experience. After reviewing your environment, we provide a clear and actionable report, guiding you through the findings and advising on the next steps. Additionally, we offer remediation options to address any security issues, ensuring your Microsoft 365 tenant is well-maintained and secure.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps provides out-of-the-box monitoring and reporting for thousands of cloud applications in use across your organization. GuidePoint Security’s Microsoft Cloud Services team will assist you in identifying which applications should be monitored with Defender, configure tailored alerting and notifications to prevent alert fatigue, and transform those alerts into actionable insights that you can act upon. Our team ensures that your cloud app security is optimized to detect and respond to potential threats effectively.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps provides out-of-the-box monitoring and reporting for thousands of cloud applications in use across your organization. GuidePoint Security’s Microsoft Cloud Services team will assist you in identifying which applications should be monitored with Defender, configure tailored alerting and notifications to prevent alert fatigue, and transform those alerts into actionable insights that you can act upon. Our team ensures that your cloud app security is optimized to detect and respond to potential threats effectively.
