Microsoft 365 Security Baseline for SMEs
MFA, Conditional Access, app consent, external forwarding, admin accounts and monitoring in one practical baseline.
Read the guide ->NorthMSP provides Microsoft 365 services for Sheffield businesses, covering tenant management, security, migrations, devices and ongoing governance. We turn half-configured tools into a secure, manageable environment that supports the way your people actually work.
You’re likely already licensed for far more capability than you’ve switched on. We turn the licences you own into a secure, well-governed platform.
A clear picture of how your tenant is configured today, where it’s exposed, and what to fix first.
Email moved cleanly from on-prem or another provider, with no lost mail and minimal disruption.
Structure, permissions and lifecycle so collaboration doesn’t sprawl into a security and findability problem.
Identity done right — the foundation everything else in Microsoft 365 depends on.
Devices enrolled, configured and secured from one place, with consistent baselines.
Microsoft’s security stack actually turned on and tuned — not left at defaults.
Access policies that fit how your business works, balancing security with getting things done.
If you’re considering Copilot, we make sure your data, permissions and governance are ready first — no hype, just the groundwork.
Entra ID sits across users, devices, applications and cloud workloads. We keep that identity layer coherent when Microsoft 365 connects to Azure or an existing on-premises environment.
Our Azure services cover landing zones, migration, hybrid connectivity, governance and cost control.
Explore Microsoft Azure services ->A secure tenant is not a one-off configuration exercise. We establish a known-good baseline, monitor it through our centralised Microsoft 365 management platform, review legitimate exceptions and remediate settings that drift away from the agreed standard.
Strong security defaults designed for broad adoption, with sensible controls that improve the tenant without making ordinary work unnecessarily difficult.
A more demanding profile aligned closely to the CIS Microsoft 365 benchmark, with limited, documented exclusions where a control would create disproportionate operational friction.
SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange Online, Teams, collaboration settings, Defender for Office 365, DLP foundations and tenant-wide controls.
Entra ID, MFA, Conditional Access, identity protection, authorisation and the global settings that decide who can reach what.
Defender for Endpoint, Intune for Windows and macOS, mobile application management, device compliance and Windows Autopilot.
Application and browser management, platform hardening, patch management, compliance, identity controls and usable end-user settings.
Understand how the tenant is configured, where it’s exposed, and what to fix first.
Identity, collaboration and workloads designed and moved cleanly to a known-good standard.
Conditional access, Defender and hardening applied — then prevented from drifting.
Ongoing governance, reviews and cost control so the environment stays healthy as you grow.
Guides on tenant security, app consent, admin access and the controls that reduce real-world Microsoft 365 risk.
MFA, Conditional Access, app consent, external forwarding, admin accounts and monitoring in one practical baseline.
Read the guide ->Includes the Microsoft 365 checks that often get missed when a tenant has grown without proper governance.
Read the guide ->How certification fits into a broader Microsoft 365, identity, endpoint and recovery standard.
Read the guide ->Microsoft’s naming has changed over time, but Office 365 has not disappeared completely.
Yes. Office 365 E1, E3, E5 and F3 still exist as enterprise plan names, while Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 include their Office 365 equivalents within broader bundles. We support both — including licensing, Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, migrations, security, governance and ongoing tenant management for Sheffield businesses.
Career feedback from our founder’s Microsoft cloud and migration work. Identity withheld to respect confidentiality.
This one stumped a lot of other engineers during the original migration, so we’re really pleased with the progress. Most appreciated.
Before you buy anything new, let’s look at what your Microsoft environment could be doing properly. A straight conversation, no pressure.