Microsoft 365 Security Controls Review
Microsoft 365 is where identity, email, files, collaboration, and access decisions meet. Canary Trap reviews your tenant configuration, security controls, and attacker-relevant abuse paths so your team knows which gaps actually matter.
What we test, review, and validate.
Microsoft 365 risk often comes from reasonable settings that become risky in combination: identity, sharing, email, guest access, permissions, and visibility.
Outcome of this engagement
Microsoft 365 Security Controls Review helps your team validate whether your tenant is configured to resist common attacker techniques such as business email compromise, OAuth abuse, oversharing, privilege misuse, and data exposure.
Identity & access
- Entra ID configuration, MFA, and conditional access
- Privileged roles, admin boundaries, and break-glass access
- OAuth app consent, third-party access, and risky permissions
Email & collaboration
- Exchange Online and anti-phishing controls
- SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams sharing posture
- External sharing, guest access, and B2B collaboration
Protection & visibility
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint control review
- DLP, sensitivity labels, and information protection
- Audit logging, alerting, and incident readiness
Microsoft 365 findings your team can act on.
A Microsoft 365 review is only valuable if it helps your team make better security decisions without turning the tenant into a productivity crime scene.
Canary Trap reports are written to support remediation, leadership visibility, compliance conversations, and operational improvement.
Microsoft 365 security should be configured for how attackers actually operate.
A high Secure Score can be useful. It is not the same as knowing whether your tenant is resilient against credential abuse, phishing, oversharing, OAuth misuse, or privilege escalation.
This engagement gives your team a defensible view of how your Microsoft 365 tenant is configured, which controls are working as intended, where exposure exists, and what should be prioritized next.
A transparent process from scope to retesting.
Every Microsoft 365 Security Controls Review is scoped to your tenant, licensing, access model, business priorities, and review objectives.
We confirm tenant scope, licensing context, access model, business priorities, review objectives, rules of engagement, timing, contacts, and communication process.
Our testers review Microsoft 365 configuration, identity controls, email security, sharing posture, collaboration settings, data protection, logging, and attacker-relevant control gaps.
We document findings with evidence, severity, business context, control implications, and practical remediation guidance.
Your team addresses the findings with clear direction from the report and findings review.
We retest remediated findings within the defined window to validate that the risk has been addressed.
Microsoft 365 review led by people who understand attacker behaviour.
Microsoft 365 is often reviewed like a settings audit. That is useful, but incomplete.
Canary Trap brings senior offensive security expertise, structured methodology, and practical reporting to help your team understand which Microsoft 365 control gaps create realistic security risk.
Senior-led testing
Testing is led by experienced offensive security professionals, not handed off to junior scanner operators.
Attacker-aligned analysis
We focus on the Microsoft 365 configurations attackers actually target, including identity, email, OAuth consent, sharing, guest access, privileged roles, and data exposure.
Tenant-specific prioritization
Recommendations are shaped by your licensing, environment, business needs, and risk context. Not every control needs to be treated like an emergency.
Practical reporting
Findings include the technical detail needed for remediation and the business context needed for leadership, compliance, and operational decisions.
Project management
Every engagement includes clear communication, defined expectations, and project management throughout the testing lifecycle.
Retesting and validation
Retesting helps confirm that remediated findings have actually been addressed, not just marked complete.
Trust signals
Canary Trap is SOC 2 Type II certified, maintains an NPS above 95, and specializes in offensive security testing.
Microsoft 365 risk rarely stays inside Microsoft 365.
Microsoft 365 connects to identity, endpoints, cloud environments, email workflows, and internal access paths. These are common pairings with Microsoft 365 Security Controls Review.
Microsoft 365 security review questions, answered plainly.
A Microsoft 365 Security Controls Review evaluates whether a Microsoft 365 tenant is configured securely across identity, email, collaboration, sharing, data protection, visibility, and administrative controls.
Canary Trap reviews Microsoft 365 with an attacker-aligned lens to help teams identify which configuration and control gaps create meaningful risk.
Scope depends on the environment, but review areas may include Entra ID, MFA, conditional access, privileged roles, OAuth app consent, Exchange Online, Defender for Office 365, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, external sharing, guest access, sensitivity labels, DLP, audit logging, alerting, and incident readiness.
Usually, no. Canary Trap typically works from a scoped reader identity using Global Reader and selected security-reader roles.
The exact access model is confirmed during scoping to balance coverage, safety, and least-privilege access.
Yes. Entra ID, MFA, conditional access, privileged access, federation, admin roles, and identity-related control gaps are common parts of a Microsoft 365 Security Controls Review.
Yes. Review may include Exchange Online security configuration, anti-phishing controls, mail flow considerations, business email compromise risk, and related Microsoft 365 email protections.
Yes. Canary Trap can review SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, guest access, B2B collaboration, external sharing, oversharing risk, and data exposure paths.
Yes, where in scope. Copilot-related review may include governance, oversharing exposure, data access, permissions, sensitivity labels, and controls that influence what Copilot can surface.
No. The review is typically observation-based and non-disruptive. Any active validation or configuration change would be explicitly scoped and coordinated before it happens.
Yes. Canary Trap can reference CIS benchmarks and Microsoft Secure Score where useful.
Those inputs are helpful, but prioritization is driven by attacker relevance, business context, and practical risk rather than score improvement alone.
Yes. Microsoft 365 Security Controls Review can support common compliance and customer assurance requirements. Canary Trap reports provide technical remediation detail while also supporting audit, leadership, and operational conversations.
Most Microsoft 365 Security Controls Review engagements take one to two weeks for assessment and reporting, depending on tenant complexity, licensing, access model, and review objectives.
Cost depends on scope, including tenant complexity, licensing, identity configuration, collaboration footprint, Copilot usage, data protection requirements, and review objectives.
Canary Trap prices from scope, not from a generic rate card.
Yes. Retesting of remediated findings is included within the defined engagement window after report delivery.
Scoping typically requires tenant context, licensing information, access model, business priorities, compliance drivers, technical contacts, and review objectives.
A scoping call is used to confirm the right approach before work begins.
Canary Trap reviews the findings with your team, explains the most important risks, provides remediation guidance, and retests remediated findings within the defined window.
Ready to scope a Microsoft 365 Security Controls Review?
A short scoping call is enough to align on your tenant, licensing, access model, review objectives, and the right next step.
Working against an audit, renewal, Copilot rollout, or security hardening deadline? Tell us the date and we’ll work backwards from it.
