Threat protection

Unprotected assets, inconsistent policies, and disconnected threat signals create avoidable exposure. Strengthen prevention and connect investigation through Defender XDR, while addressing cloud-workload protection as a distinct part of the agreed scope.

Capabilities

Map critical services to identities, endpoints, email, applications, and protection requirements.
Review onboarding, policy configuration, sensor health, and coverage across supported workloads.
Prioritize exploitable weaknesses and high-risk configurations using business impact and exposure.
Connect related signals to investigation workflows with clear containment and escalation decisions.
Pilot hardening changes with operational owners, user-impact assessment, and rollback criteria.

Deliverables

An asset-to-protection coverage map identifying unmanaged, unsupported, or partially protected systems.
A risk-ranked hardening backlog with remediation owners, dependencies, and verification steps.
A protection design documenting policy intent, exceptions, and required product capabilities.
A phased rollout plan with pilot acceptance, change approvals, and operational handover.

Business value

Reduce uncertainty about what is protected and which gaps deserve attention first. Track coverage, critical exposure, exception age, and verified remediation against an agreed baseline; protection does not eliminate all risk.

Start with a threat-protection readiness review.

Bring critical services, protection reports, known exposure, and change windows. Start with a bounded assessment or hardening pilot. Active incident response and specialist operational-technology assessment are separate scopes.

Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, Entra, Intune