Microsoft 365 Is Not
Secure By Design.
Microsoft 365 is not secure by default. Microsoft's Shared Responsibility Model explicitly places data protection on the customer — meaning your M365 email, SharePoint, and Teams data is your responsibility to back up and secure. Securafy hardens, monitors, backs up, and manages your complete Microsoft 365 and Azure environment, closing the security gaps Microsoft's default configuration leaves open.
Microsoft Said It Themselves.
Your Data Is Your Problem.
Microsoft's own documentation states that data protection in M365 is a shared responsibility — and the customer's share is larger than most organizations realize. When your data is deleted, encrypted by ransomware, or corrupted, Microsoft's platform keeps running. Your data does not come back.
Microsoft manages the infrastructure — availability, platform uptime, and physical security.
You are responsible for your data — protection, backup, access controls, and recovery.
Microsoft even recommends using third-party backup solutions for all M365 workloads.
"Moving to Microsoft 365 is not a backup strategy. It is a productivity platform that Microsoft operates and you populate with irreplaceable business data — without a safety net, unless you build one."
— Randy Hall, Founder & CEO, SecurafyComplete SaaS Backup for
Every M365 Workload
Every workload. Every user. Continuous backup with point-in-time recovery, multi-year retention, and encrypted storage. If Microsoft loses it, deletes it, or ransomware encrypts it — we restore it.
Exchange Online — Email
Complete mailbox backup including email, calendar, tasks, and notes. Point-in-time recovery of individual emails, entire mailboxes, or entire tenants. Multi-year retention that survives license changes and user departures.
SharePoint Online
Site collections, document libraries, lists, and pages — fully backed up with version history beyond Microsoft's native limits. Restore individual files, entire sites, or the full tenant from any point in time.
OneDrive for Business
Every user's OneDrive — backed up continuously. Ransomware cannot permanently encrypt what we have independently archived. Restore any file to any version, from any point in time, in minutes.
Microsoft Teams
Team channels, private chat messages, meeting recordings, and files shared in Teams. Everything your organization communicates and collaborates on — protected against deletion and data loss.
Contacts & Distribution Lists
Global Address Lists, personal contacts, and distribution group memberships. The business relationships your organization depends on — backed up and recoverable even after accidental deletion or directory corruption.
Microsoft 365 Groups
Group mailboxes, shared calendars, planner boards, and associated content — backed up as a unified unit. Restore an entire group or pick individual items.
HIPAA requires data availability and integrity controls — M365 native retention does not satisfy this. GLBA Safeguards Rule requires backup and recovery procedures for customer financial data. CJIS requires controlled data retention for criminal justice information. PCI-DSS requires cardholder data to be protected with tested, documented backup. Ohio Safe Harbor requires a recognized security program including data protection controls.
A New M365 Tenant Has
43 Default Security Gaps.
Microsoft ships M365 with defaults optimized for ease of use, not security. A Securafy-managed M365 tenant is hardened to Microsoft's own Secure Score recommendations and NIST CSF 2.0 controls — closing every default gap before your team logs in for the first time.
Managed Azure —
Secure. Optimized. Monitored.
Azure is powerful and flexible — and equally complex to secure. Misconfigured Azure environments are one of the most common attack vectors for sophisticated threat actors. Securafy manages your Azure infrastructure with the same Prevention-First discipline applied to every client environment.
Azure Infrastructure Management
Virtual machines, networking, storage accounts, and resource groups — provisioned, configured, and managed according to Microsoft's Security Benchmark and your organizational requirements.
Azure Security Center
Microsoft Defender for Cloud configured, monitored, and actively managed. Continuous security posture assessment, threat protection across hybrid workloads, and regulatory compliance visibility.
Azure Identity & Access
Advanced Identity Protection, Privileged Identity Management, and Conditional Access — managed and monitored 24/7. Every privileged action logged, every anomalous sign-in flagged and investigated.
Cost Optimization
Azure environments routinely run 20–40% over budget due to unoptimized resources, orphaned assets, and incorrect sizing. Securafy manages your Azure spend alongside your security posture — both matter.
Azure Backup & Recovery
Azure virtual machine backup, SQL database backup, and file share protection — configured with defined RTO and RPO targets, tested regularly, and documented in your disaster recovery runbook.
Azure Monitoring & Alerting
Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and custom alert rules configured to surface the signals that matter — not alert noise. Your Azure environment is visible in Securafy's CSA portal alongside your endpoint and network data.
Most Organizations Score
Below 40% on Microsoft's Own Security Benchmark.
Microsoft Secure Score measures how well your M365 tenant is configured against security best practices. The industry average is under 40%. Securafy-managed tenants consistently achieve 80%+. The difference is not tools — it is systematic configuration, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
Most Organizations Overpay for M365
By 20–30%.
Unused licenses, wrong-tier assignments, and orphaned accounts accumulate silently. Securafy manages your complete M365 license inventory — optimizing spend, ensuring every user has the right license for their role, and eliminating waste that adds up to thousands of dollars annually.
- License audit and right-sizing — identify overpayment and realign licenses to actual usage
- Onboarding and offboarding management — licenses assigned and revoked within defined SLAs
- Inactive account detection — identify ghost accounts consuming licenses and security risk
- Renewal management — contract renewal visibility so you are never caught off-guard
- License compliance reporting — auditable records for finance, HR, and compliance reviews
- SaaS Backup — email, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Contacts
- Security hardening — MFA, Conditional Access, DLP, legacy auth block
- Advanced Identity Protection — PIM, risk-based policies
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365 management
- Anti-phishing, anti-spam, attachment scanning
- Audit log monitoring and forensic retention
- License management and optimization
- External sharing and guest access controls
- Azure infrastructure management
- Azure Security Center and Defender for Cloud
- Azure Backup and disaster recovery
- 24/7 NOC/SOC monitoring — all M365 and Azure signals
Microsoft 365 & Azure —
Your Questions Answered
No. M365 ships with defaults optimized for ease of use, not security. Multi-factor authentication is not enforced, legacy authentication protocols are active, Conditional Access is not configured, and external sharing is unrestricted. A new M365 tenant is significantly more open than most organizations realize. Securafy closes every default gap as part of our initial hardening process.
No. Microsoft provides retention policies — not backups. Native M365 retention has hard time limits (typically 30–93 days), does not protect against ransomware encryption, and does not survive tenant-level events. Microsoft themselves recommend third-party backup for all M365 workloads. Without independent backup, your email, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams data has no recovery path beyond Microsoft's limited native tools.
When a user's license is removed, their mailbox begins deletion within 30 days by default. Years of email, calendar data, and OneDrive content can be permanently lost if not backed up or properly offboarded. Securafy's SaaS Backup captures all user data independently of license status, and our offboarding workflows ensure data is retained per your organizational and compliance requirements before access is removed.
Yes. Ransomware that executes on an endpoint with OneDrive sync enabled can encrypt locally synced files, which then propagate the encrypted versions to the cloud. SharePoint Online can similarly be affected through synced libraries. Microsoft's version history may help in limited cases, but a sophisticated ransomware attack can corrupt enough versions to make native recovery impossible. Independent SaaS backup with air-gapped storage is the only reliable protection.
Yes for regulated industries. HIPAA requires addressable backup and disaster recovery under the Technical Safeguard standards. GLBA Safeguards Rule requires backup and recovery procedures for customer financial data. CJIS requires controlled retention of criminal justice information in systems with documented backup. None of these requirements are satisfied by M365 native retention alone. Securafy's SaaS Backup with long-term, encrypted, auditable retention satisfies each of these framework requirements.
Microsoft Secure Score is a measurement of your organization's security posture based on your M365 configuration — how many of Microsoft's recommended security controls are actually enabled. The industry average score is below 40%. Cyber insurers increasingly require evidence of M365 security controls, and a low Secure Score is a red flag in any security assessment. Securafy-managed tenants consistently achieve 80%+ Secure Score through systematic hardening and continuous maintenance.
Your M365 Environment
Deserves More Than Default Settings.
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