Microsoft Secure Score

Strengthen your security posture

Use intelligent insights and guidance to strengthen your organization’s security posture with Microsoft Secure Score.

Assess your current security posture and identify potential improvements across all your Microsoft 365 workloads with centralized visibility from Secure Score.

Get visibility, insights, and guidance to maximize your security and take advantage of Microsoft 365.

Enterprise-wide visibility

Assess your organization’s security posture across its entire digital estate.

Intelligent guidance

Identify where to improve your security posture using threat-prioritized insights and guidance.

Comprehensive controls

Improve your security posture with a comprehensive set of controls.

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Assess your security posture

Assess the state of your security posture across identity, devices, information, apps, and infrastructure. Benchmark your organization’s status over time and compare it to other organizations.

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Identify areas to improve and create a plan

Evaluate each recommendation using embedded guidance to determine which vectors of attack are a priority and how they can be mitigated. Add improvement actions to your posture improvement plan.

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Drive posture improvements into production

Use integrated workflow capabilities to help determine potential user impact and the procedures necessary to implement each recommendation in your environment.

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Report improvements to leadership

Use historical reports to track and maintain progress, identify regressions, and report to leaderships teams. Using measurable data, clearly demonstrate the progress you’re making to better secure your environment.

Get the best cyberinsurance

Protect your organization against cyberincidents with a good security posture and cyberinsurance. Participating insurers now use Microsoft Secure Score to provide posture-based rates to small and medium businesses.

Peet Limited

“We continually work to raise our Secure Score. Early on, the score feature was a driver in our choice to move to Microsoft 365—the better our security tools, the better we do our jobs, the better our security score.”

—Justyn Bridge, IT Manager, Peet Limited

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MSC Technology North America

“With [Secure Score in] Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly Azure Security Center), we can see where to make improvements to help secure our Azure virtual machines because it shows us where risks lie. We can also use it with our on-premises infrastructure, which is crucial.”

—Aaron Shvarts, Chief Security Officer

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Ithaca College

“The IT team used Microsoft Secure Score to pinpoint opportunities for improving the college’s security posture. It’s first recommendation was to bolster identity and access protection for administrative accounts…”

—Jason Youngers, Director and Information Security Officer

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Christus Health

“[Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, through its inclusion of Microsoft Secure Score and Threat and Vulnerability Management] has given us the insight to make our ongoing Windows 10 deployment more secure.”

—Brian Hamilton, Director of Enterprise and User Computing