A managed network is only as good as its security wrapper. We constantly harden your directory structures, enforce Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) aggressively, and audit logs to prevent sophisticated spear-phishing campaigns against your critical UAE operations.
Identity and Directory Hardening
Active Directory and Entra ID are the backbone of your organisation — compromised directory credentials are the primary means by which ransomware groups move laterally and achieve domain administrator access. We enforce a tiered administration model: privileged accounts used only for administrative tasks, never for email or web browsing. Legacy authentication protocols (NTLM, basic auth, SMTP relay without authentication) are disabled because they bypass MFA.
Conditional Access policies require MFA for all cloud application logins, and Entra ID Identity Protection flags risky sign-ins in real time. Password complexity policies enforce 12-character minimums with breach password checking against the HaveIBeenPwned database through Entra ID Smart Lockout.
- Tiered administrator model — privileged accounts isolated from daily use accounts
- Legacy authentication protocol blocking (NTLM, basic auth)
- MFA enforcement on all M365 and SaaS applications via Conditional Access
- Breach password monitoring and Entra ID Smart Lockout
- Quarterly Active Directory permissions audit and stale account cleanup
Endpoint Detection and Response
Standard antivirus that relies on signature databases misses the fileless malware and living-off-the-land techniques used by modern threat actors. We deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) or CrowdStrike Falcon across all managed endpoints, providing behavioural detection that identifies suspicious process chains even when no known malware signature is present.
EDR telemetry feeds into our SIEM for correlation with network events — a lateral movement attempt that starts on a single endpoint and reaches a file server is detected and responded to before it reaches the domain controller.
Continuous Security Configuration Review
Security configurations drift as staff add exceptions, install new software, or modify policies. We run monthly Secure Score assessments in Microsoft Defender and Entra ID, reviewing the current configuration against the Microsoft recommended baseline and the CIS Benchmark controls applicable to your industry. Regressions trigger immediate remediation rather than waiting for an incident to reveal them.