What Is Security Posture Management for Microsoft 365?
Your Microsoft 365 tenant is a sprawling control plane — hundreds of security settings, admin roles, sharing policies, and authentication rules. Security Posture Management (SPM) continuously audits that tenant against best-practice baselines, alerts when configuration drifts, and remediates the risks — because most Microsoft 365 breaches don't exploit a software flaw; they exploit a setting nobody knew was wrong.
Acronis reports that onboarding a new tenant typically reveals 8–9 previously undetected vulnerabilities. That's the gap this service closes.
Why It Matters
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Misconfiguration Is the Modern Breach
Legacy authentication left on, over-privileged admins, external sharing wide open — identity and control-plane attacks bypass endpoint security entirely. Posture management is the counter.
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Baselines, Not Guesswork
Predefined best-practice baselines for Microsoft 365 tenants and Intune-managed endpoints — audited on demand and monitored continuously for deviation.
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Drift Alerts and Auto-Remediation
New risky setting? Suspicious user change? Instant alerts, with automatic remediation closing gaps before the exposure window matters.
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Offboarding Done Right
Departing-employee offboarding — revoking sessions, resetting passwords, removing licenses, converting mailboxes, preserving compliance — becomes a checklist the platform executes, not tribal knowledge.
How palmiq Delivers It
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Audit
- Tenant scan against best-practice baselines — findings in plain English, ranked by risk.
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Harden
- Remediation of findings, with change control — palmiq fixes, documents, and verifies.
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Hold the Line
- Continuous drift monitoring with alerts into palmiq's 24/7 operations.
- Monthly posture reporting — the "green report" your leadership and insurer want to see.