Threat Protection Engagement - 4 weeks

In today's dynamic threat landscape, ensuring robust security for your organization is of utmost importance. Organizations worldwide are facing similar problems - High number of alerts, budget constraints, dependency on legacy vulnerable systems and applications, and the risk of not having visibility into real threats. Grant Thornton's Threat Protection Engagement helps you discover how Microsoft security suite products can help to harden security posture and mitigate risk to help meet your broader security aspirations while identifying active threats, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities.

Engagement Overview:

Grant Thornton will help you better understand how to maximize your Microsoft license spend and assist in developing a strategy that aligns with your needs. Examples of areas that are covered during the engagement:

• Data source viability for Microsoft Sentinel – a cloud native SIEM and SOAR solution that provides comprehensive visibility and intelligent security analytics across your entire enterprise.
• Using Microsoft Defender XDR – event response actions and automation integrate and correlate data across email, identity, endpoints, cloud apps, and infrastructure to provide cross-domain threat protection and response.
• Use cases and policies for Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – protect your email and identity from advanced threats such as phishing, malware, ransomware, and compromised credentials.
• Impacts and dependencies for deploying Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – a unified endpoint security platform that delivers unparalleled protection, detection, investigation, and response capabilities.

Engagement Approach:

• Pre-Engagement Call
• Kick-off Meeting
• Weekly Status Updates
• Configure Microsoft Defender XDR (Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Defender for Vulnerability Management & Entra ID Protection)
• Configure Microsoft Sentinel
• Threat and Vulnerabilities Exploration
• Threat landscape results & next steps

Engagement Deliverables:

During this engagement, we partner with you to strengthen your organization's security posture and help you better understand how to prioritize and mitigate potential threats by:

• Analysis of your goals and objectives for managed detection and response
• An overview of your existing environment, MDR technology implementation, and Microsoft products utilization
• Best practices and standards-aligned to your technical and business operations
• Identify Microsoft capabilities that can be leveraged to increase the value of resources you currently have.
• Actionable recommendations to help mitigate the identified threats and discovered vulnerabilities.
• The next steps for getting started or building out your capabilities.

Why Grant Thornton?

• Experience and expertise with the implementation and operation of Microsoft technologies for numerous programs including, but not limited to Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Entra ID, Purview, and Intune.
• Our deeply qualified teams bring the right mix of technical expertise and operational acumen to align your Microsoft investment with your overall program goals and objectives.
• Our team members are comprised exclusively of Microsoft certified Engineers and Analysts dedicated to providing implementation and monitoring services support to our customers for Microsoft’s entire product suite.
• Our services and recommendations are based on lessons learned in the field performing this work, not theories. Our integration and monitoring services experience guide success by avoiding items that sound good but don’t work and the reason why.
• Purpose built content and models to align implementations to leading risk areas such as insider threat, cyber fraud, and cyber operations automation.