Security & compliance

Microsoft security: identity to endpoint to cloud

Security is not an add-on at Veratas, it is built in from day one. Our Microsoft security practice covers identity with Entra ID, threat protection with Defender XDR, device management with Intune, data protection with Purview, and cloud security posture with Defender for Cloud. A defence-in-depth programme across every layer of your Microsoft estate.

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What we deliver

Microsoft security and compliance services

From identity foundations and threat detection through to compliance programmes and cloud security posture, the full Microsoft security stack as a coherent managed programme.

01.

Microsoft Entra ID: identity & access

Zero-trust identity for cloud and hybrid environments

  • Entra ID deployment: MFA, Conditional Access, and SSO for Microsoft and third-party applications
  • Privileged Identity Management: just-in-time access, approval workflows, and PIM alerts
  • Hybrid identity: Entra Connect Sync, password hash sync, and seamless SSO
  • Identity governance: access reviews, entitlement management, and lifecycle workflows
  • External identity: B2B guest access policies and B2C customer identity scenarios
  • Entra ID Protection: risk-based Conditional Access and risky sign-in automated remediation

02.

Microsoft Defender XDR: threat protection

Unified detection and response across the Microsoft estate

  • Defender for Endpoint: onboarding, EDR configuration, attack surface reduction, and threat hunting
  • Defender for Office 365: anti-phishing, safe links, safe attachments, and anti-spam policies
  • Defender for Identity: lateral movement detection, DCSync alerts, and identity threat defence
  • Defender for Cloud Apps: shadow IT discovery, CASB controls, and session policy enforcement
  • Microsoft Sentinel: SIEM deployment, custom analytics rules, and SOAR playbook automation
  • Secure Score improvement programme: monthly tracking and prioritised remediation actions

03.

Microsoft Intune: device management & Autopilot

Modern management for all device types and platforms

  • Intune enrolment for Windows, iOS, Android, and macOS with compliance policies
  • Windows Autopilot: zero-touch provisioning for new corporate devices
  • App deployment, update ring management, and automated patch compliance reporting
  • BYOD management: app protection policies and corporate and personal data separation
  • Endpoint analytics: device health scoring and proactive remediation scripts
  • Co-management with SCCM: workload migration to Intune at your own pace

04.

Microsoft Purview: data protection & compliance

DLP, Insider Risk, and eDiscovery for regulated environments

  • Data Loss Prevention policies across Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, endpoints, and Fabric
  • Sensitivity labels and information protection: classification taxonomy design and rollout
  • Insider Risk Management: policy design, alert triage, and adaptive protection integration
  • eDiscovery Premium: case management, custodians, and content export for litigation
  • Legal Hold across Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive
  • Communication compliance: financial services, healthcare, and legal sector policy configuration

05.

Defender for Cloud: Azure security posture

Cloud workload protection and CSPM across Azure

  • Defender for Cloud onboarding and prioritised security recommendations remediation
  • Cloud Security Posture Management: regulatory compliance dashboards and gap reporting
  • Workload protection for VMs, containers, SQL databases, Key Vault, and storage
  • Just-in-time VM access and adaptive application control configuration
  • Azure Security Benchmark and CIS alignment: gap assessment and structured remediation
  • Microsoft Sentinel integration for unified SIEM and SOAR across Azure and M365

06.

Security baseline & compliance programmes

Building and sustaining a structured security posture

  • Microsoft 365 CIS benchmark baseline deployment and configuration hardening
  • NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 alignment via Microsoft Compliance Manager
  • Security awareness training programme and phishing simulation campaigns
  • Monthly Secure Score reporting with prioritised improvement roadmap
  • Quarterly security posture review and threat landscape briefing
Fixed-fee implementation

Microsoft 365 security, hardened, from $5,000

A fixed-scope security baseline across your Microsoft 365 estate. You see exactly what the price covers, and a fair quote for anything more.

Fixed fee from $5,000   |   Live in 2 to 3 weeks   |   Price shown up front

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What $5,000 covers

A hardened Microsoft 365 baseline

The essential controls that lift your security posture fast.

  • Microsoft 365 security baseline configuration
  • Multi-factor authentication and conditional access
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Endpoint baseline
  • Microsoft Entra ID hardening
  • Basic data loss prevention (DLP) policies
  • Secure Score review and uplift
  • Admin alerting and reporting setup
  • Security posture report and recommendations

Security licences (Microsoft Defender, Entra ID P1 or P2) are billed per user per month through Microsoft CSP. The $5,000 covers the implementation services.

No surprises

What is in the price, and what we quote separately

Anything beyond the standard package is optional, and always quoted before you commit.

In your priceBeyond the package, quoted at a fair rate
Microsoft 365 security baselineMicrosoft Sentinel SIEM deployment (from $9,000)
MFA and conditional accessFull Microsoft Defender XDR rollout
Defender baseline (Office, Endpoint)Microsoft Purview data governance
Secure Score upliftCompliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2)
Posture reportOngoing managed detection and response

You pay $5,000 for the standard baseline. Everything else is optional, scoped and quoted transparently at a reasonable rate, and always shown before you decide.

Why Veratas for security

What makes our Microsoft security delivery different

Security is no longer a single product purchase. We deliver Microsoft’s full security and compliance estate, XDR, Sentinel, Purview, Intune, Entra, as a continuous programme aligned to your regulatory regime and risk appetite.

Microsoft Defender XDR full suite

Most security partners deploy one or two Defender products. Veratas deploys the full XDR suite, Defender for Office 365, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Identity, Defender for Cloud Apps, Defender for Cloud, and integrates them with Microsoft Sentinel SIEM for unified detection.

Microsoft Sentinel SOC operations

Optional 24×7 Microsoft Sentinel SOC services with KQL detection rule development, playbook automation, threat hunting, and incident response. Documented MITRE ATT&CK coverage scoring with quarterly gap analysis.

Zero Trust as a programme, not a project

Zero Trust isn’t a product, it’s a multi-quarter programme covering identity (Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management), devices (Intune compliance, attack surface reduction), applications, data, infrastructure, and networks. We deliver Microsoft’s Zero Trust adoption framework end-to-end.

Compliance regimes covered

Microsoft Compliance Manager configured for the regimes your business operates under: GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, FedRAMP, FCA, MAS, IRAP. Microsoft Purview policies aligned to each. Continuous improvement vs one-off audits.

Microsoft security products

Microsoft security and compliance product stack

The five core Microsoft security and compliance products and how they fit together. Most enterprises deploy at least Defender XDR + Sentinel + Intune; advanced clients add Purview and Entra ID P2 for full coverage.

Product
Purpose
What it does
How it's licensed
Microsoft Defender XDR
Threat protection across endpoint, identity, email, cloud apps, infrastructure
Real-time prevention & detection at the protected workload
Included with M365 E5 / Defender for Endpoint P2 / per-product licences
Microsoft Sentinel
Cloud-native SIEM and SOAR, log aggregation across all sources, correlation, hunting, automation
Cross-source correlation, threat hunting, incident response, compliance reporting
Pay-per-GB ingested + commitment tiers; M365 E5 gives free Defender log ingest
Microsoft Purview
Information protection, DLP, retention, eDiscovery, insider risk, data governance
Data classification, policy enforcement, regulatory reporting, AI observability
Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance suite or per-product
Microsoft Intune
Endpoint management, device compliance, application management, configuration
Device baseline, attack surface reduction, app protection, conditional access enforcement
Microsoft 365 E3/E5 or standalone Intune Plan 1/2
Microsoft Entra ID Protection
Identity threat detection, risky users, risky sign-ins, leaked credentials
Identity risk-based Conditional Access, automated remediation
Microsoft Entra ID P2 (E5 includes)
Zero Trust programme

Microsoft Zero Trust: six-pillar implementation programme

Microsoft’s Zero Trust adoption framework covers six pillars. Veratas runs Zero Trust as a 9-18 month programme depending on starting maturity and scope.

01

Identity

Microsoft Entra ID hardening: MFA enforcement, Conditional Access policies (compliant device, location, risk), Privileged Identity Management for just-in-time admin elevation, Identity Protection, password protection, legacy authentication blocked.

02

Devices

Microsoft Intune device compliance baseline (encryption, OS version, security patches). Microsoft Defender for Endpoint deployed with EDR in block mode, attack surface reduction rules, web threat protection. Conditional Access requires compliant devices for sensitive resources.

03

Applications

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps discovers shadow IT and sanctions/blocks per policy. Microsoft Entra Application Proxy or SAML federation for legacy apps. Application Control via Microsoft Defender Application Control where appropriate.

04

Data

Microsoft Purview Information Protection, sensitivity labels (Public, Internal, Confidential, Highly Confidential) applied automatically and manually. DLP policies for credit cards, PII, PHI. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management. Encryption at rest and in transit.

05

Infrastructure & network

Microsoft Defender for Cloud across Azure (and AWS/GCP). Microsoft Sentinel SIEM. Network segmentation via Azure Firewall and NSGs. Azure DDoS Protection. Just-in-time VM access. Microsoft Entra Private Access for Zero Trust Network Access.

Industries

Industry-specific security patterns

Each regulated industry has unique compliance regimes and security baselines. We bring industry-tested Microsoft security architectures rather than generic deployments.

Financial services

Microsoft Sentinel SOC with 7-year retention. Compliance against FCA, MAS, MiFID II. Customer Lockbox. Confidential Computing for trading models. Privileged access management for production systems.

Healthcare

HIPAA Microsoft compliance baseline. Microsoft Purview DLP for PHI. Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps for SaaS PHI risk monitoring. Microsoft Sentinel for HIPAA audit logging requirements.

Manufacturing

OT-IT segmentation patterns in Azure. Microsoft Defender for IoT for OT visibility. Supply chain security alongside Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management.

Retail

PCI DSS Microsoft compliance baseline. POS device management via Intune. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint at store level. Sentinel for retail fraud detection patterns.

Public sector

GCC and GCC High deployments. FedRAMP / IRAP compliance. Microsoft Sentinel with extended retention. Microsoft Purview for FOIA / records management.

Technology / SaaS

Customer-facing application security, GitHub Advanced Security integration, Microsoft Defender for DevOps, customer compliance attestation (SOC 2, ISO 27001) support.

FAQ

Microsoft security and compliance questions answered

Defender, Sentinel, Zero Trust, regulatory compliance, and SOC operations, the topics security buyers ask about most.

Defender XDR: real-time threat protection at the workload (endpoint, identity, email, cloud apps, cloud infrastructure), prevents and detects threats at the source. Microsoft Sentinel: cloud-native SIEM/SOAR aggregating logs from Defender XDR plus other sources (network, third-party security tools, custom apps) for cross-source correlation, hunting, and orchestrated response. They are complementary, most enterprises deploy both.
Depends on what you have. If your endpoint protection is already strong (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne), Microsoft Defender for Endpoint might overlap, but Defender for Office 365, Defender for Identity, and Defender for Cloud Apps cover gaps third-party tools rarely match. We run a coverage analysis against MITRE ATT&CK before recommending consolidation or augmentation.
A standard Microsoft 365 security baseline starts from $5,000. Sentinel is pay-per-GB of log data ingested. Public list ~$2-5/GB depending on commitment tier. Microsoft 365 E5 customers get free ingest of Defender XDR data (up to 5GB/user/day), significant savings for E5 estates. Most enterprises land at $5K-$50K/month for Sentinel data ingest depending on log volume and retention configuration.
Zero Trust isn't a product, it's a programme. Six pillars: identity (Entra ID + Conditional Access), devices (Intune + Defender for Endpoint), applications (Defender for Cloud Apps + Entra Application Proxy), data (Purview Information Protection + DLP), infrastructure (Defender for Cloud + Sentinel), network (Azure Firewall + Entra Private Access). Veratas typically delivers Zero Trust over 9-18 months in waves, starting with identity.
Quick wins (block legacy auth, require MFA for all users, require MFA for admins): 1-2 weeks including pilot. Standard ruleset (compliant device for sensitive apps, location-based MFA, risk-based MFA): 4-8 weeks with phased rollout. Advanced ruleset (session controls, app-specific restrictions, just-in-time admin elevation): additional 4-8 weeks. Full rollout 12-20 weeks typical.
Yes. Microsoft Compliance Manager pre-configures controls against each regime. We map your current Microsoft configuration to required controls, identify gaps, and build a remediation backlog with timeline. Continuous Compliance Score monitoring. For SOC 2 / ISO 27001, we coordinate with your audit firm and produce control evidence from Microsoft Audit logs and Purview reports.
Microsoft Secure Score is Microsoft's measurement of your tenant's security posture across Identity, Data, Device, and Apps (0-100% scale, weighted by impact). Most untouched tenants score 30-50%. Within 90 days of engagement we typically reach 65-75%. Within 12 months mature tenants reach 80%+. Specific actions tracked monthly with progress reports.
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management uses native M365 telemetry (Microsoft Graph signals) to detect risk patterns, data theft by departing employees, security policy violations, leaks of sensitive information. Anonymised by default; legal/HR reviews flagged cases. Requires Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance or standalone Insider Risk Management licences.
Microsoft Intune: cloud-native modern endpoint management, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android. Microsoft Configuration Manager (SCCM, MECM): on-premises endpoint management with deeper Windows configuration capabilities, software distribution, and OS deployment. Most enterprises use them together via co-management (some workloads in Intune, some in ConfigMgr) before transitioning fully to Intune.
Yes. Microsoft Sentinel SOC service with 24×7 monitoring, KQL detection rule development, threat hunting, playbook automation, and incident response. Documented MITRE ATT&CK coverage. Optional Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR (Microsoft's own managed XDR service) integration. Typical pricing: $5K-$30K/month depending on log volume and shift coverage.
MFA and conditional access, a Microsoft Defender for Office and Endpoint baseline, Microsoft Entra ID hardening, basic DLP policies, a Secure Score review and uplift, admin alerting, and a security posture report. Typically 2 to 3 weeks.
A Microsoft Sentinel SIEM deployment, full Defender XDR, Microsoft Purview governance, compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2, and ongoing managed detection sit outside the baseline and are quoted transparently.
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Entra ID, Defender XDR, Intune, Purview, and Defender for Cloud, security by design across the full Microsoft estate.

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