Microsoft 365 Security Assessment — Emerald

Microsoft 365 Security Assessment Emerald — Find What's Exposed Before an Attacker Does

A Microsoft 365 security assessment in Emerald gives you a detailed picture of the security gaps in your M365 environment — what's misconfigured, what's missing, and what's leaving your accounts, email, and data exposed. Most M365 environments have significant gaps that are straightforward to close once you know where they are. Technowand delivers M365 security assessments to Emerald and Central Queensland businesses. Remote, no lock-in.

  • 75+ clients nationally
  • Microsoft security expertise
  • 4.6-star client rating
  • 10+ years experience
  • Remote delivery

  • Microsoft Secure Score Review

    Baseline your current Secure Score and identify the highest-impact improvements available in your Emerald M365 environment. Scored against Microsoft's recommended configurations.

  • Identity and Access Review

    MFA status, conditional access policies, admin account configuration, and privileged identity — the areas most commonly exploited in successful account compromises.

  • Email Security Configuration

    Defender for Office 365 settings, anti-phishing policies, DKIM/DMARC configuration, and mail flow rules assessed against current best practice.

  • SharePoint and Teams Security

    External sharing settings, guest access configuration, and data access controls reviewed against your actual business requirements — not assumed to be fine.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

M365 security assessment for Emerald — close the gaps before they become incidents

Microsoft 365 environments are set up in a hurry, configured to defaults, and rarely reviewed. The result is a persistent gap between what M365 can deliver in terms of security and what's actually configured in your Emerald environment.

The assessment reviews identity and access controls, email security, device compliance, data sharing settings, and admin configurations — producing a findings report with a scored list of improvements ranked by impact and complexity.

Most findings are fixable within days. Some require a small project. A handful can be closed in an afternoon. The value is knowing which is which — and not finding out the hard way via an incident.

Business outcomes

What an M365 security assessment delivers for Emerald businesses

  1. A Scored M365 Security Baseline

    Your current Secure Score and a clear picture of what's driving it down — so improvements are targeted at actual risk, not arbitrary configuration changes.

  2. Closed Identity Gaps

    MFA enforcement, conditional access configuration, and admin account protections addressed — the controls that block the majority of account compromise attempts.

  3. Better Email Security

    Anti-phishing, DKIM/DMARC, and Defender for Office 365 configured properly. Email is the primary attack vector — this closes the most common entry point.

  4. Controlled Data Sharing

    External sharing settings in SharePoint and Teams reviewed and tightened. Data accessible to people outside your organisation only when it's intentional.

  5. Fewer Successful Phishing Attempts

    Properly configured email filtering blocks most phishing before it reaches inboxes. The remainder is harder to act on with conditional access and MFA in place.

  6. Documented Due Diligence

    A security assessment report that demonstrates your Emerald business has reviewed and addressed M365 security — useful for clients, auditors, and insurers.

Why Technowand

M365 security assessment for Emerald — findings that lead to action

Microsoft 365 security assessments are useful when the findings are actionable. Technowand delivers a prioritised list of improvements with difficulty ratings — not a report that catalogues every possible configuration deviation. Your Emerald team can act on it immediately.

Deep M365 Expertise

We work in Microsoft 365 environments every day. The security configurations that matter, the ones that don't, and the ones that look significant but have minimal real-world impact — we know the difference.

Prioritised Findings

Every finding is rated by impact and implementation complexity. You get a stack-ranked list, not an undifferentiated catalogue of every deviation from the recommended baseline.

Fix It With Us

Beyond the assessment, we implement the improvements. You don't need to find another provider to close the gaps we identified.

Fully Remote

The assessment is completed remotely with delegated admin access. No disruption to your Emerald team, no one on-site.

Our process

Discover → Assess → Report → Improve

  1. Discover

    A 30-minute conversation to understand your Emerald M365 environment — how many users, what licences, whether there've been any incidents, and what's driving the request for an assessment.

  2. Assess

    Remote M365 security review with delegated admin rights. Identity, email security, device compliance, data sharing, and admin configuration reviewed against current best practice. Typically three to five business days.

  3. Report

    Findings report with Microsoft Secure Score analysis, per-area findings, and a prioritised improvement plan. Delivered within a week of assessment completion. Readable by business owners, not just IT staff.

  4. Improve

    Technowand implements the recommended configurations for your Emerald M365 environment. Most high-priority items — MFA, conditional access, email security settings — addressed within the first two weeks.

Case studies

How businesses across Australia rely on Technowand for M365 security

  • Pistol Australia

    Sports Governance

    Pistol Australia's M365 environment needed security hardening across a distributed national operation. Identity protection and email security were the highest-priority gaps identified.

    Technowand assessed and hardened the M365 environment across all locations. Secure Score improved significantly and 99.9% system uptime was maintained.

    99.9% system uptime achieved after Technowand onboarding

  • United Legal

    Legal Services

    United Legal's Microsoft 365 environment had never been formally reviewed for security. Given the sensitivity of client data they manage, this was an unacceptable gap.

    A full M365 security assessment and remediation was completed, significantly improving security posture as part of a broader IT overhaul that delivered 30% productivity gains.

    ~30% productivity increase after full IT overhaul

Client feedback

What Technowand clients say

  • The tech support we received from Technowand has simply been great. They are easy to deal with, friendly, and are seriously good. Even through migration of systems and roll over of new servers, we have always been kept well informed.

    Ainslee Portlock

    Alpha Hotel Sydney

  • Technowand is a real asset to our organization. In an industry where fast, efficient service is key, having an IT partner like Technowand is essential. We have referred them on to several of our member states.

    Shawn McEachin

    Pistol Australia

Your Emerald M365 environment probably has security gaps — a free call will tell you where

Book a free 30-minute conversation. We'll cover what the assessment looks at, what we typically find in environments like yours, and what a clean M365 security setup looks like. No obligation.

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