Microsoft Risk Assessments are services designed to help your organization identify and mitigate security risks within Microsoft technology implementations as part of a Risk Assessment Program (RAP). With data being collected remotely, an expert analyzes the gathered data to create a findings report containing remediation recommendations and discusses it with you.
While “RAP as a Service“-assessments are typically 1-day assessments without planning and training, “RAP as a Service PLUS“-assessments span three (3) days and include training and planning.
Agenda
- Welcome call: Occurs 2-4 weeks before delivery with assigned, dedicated security experts.
- Setup and initial results: Assessment setup and initial result gathering prior to analysis.
- Engineer led analysis: The assigned expert will analyze the results and lead the in-depth review of the findings in three remote meeting days. The expert will work with you to develop a prioritized list of recommendations.
- Close out meeting: Finalize and deliver the results.
Key Takeaways
- Recommendations: Get holistic recommendations that enable you to improve your people, process and technology.
- Report: Receive expert analysis and a prioritized remediation guidance on what to fix first.
- Updates: Get regular updates to guidance and features (included in PLUS Risk Assessments).
- Discussions: In-depth review of findings with a subject matter expert.
Benefits
- Risk Assessments for specific technologies: Choose from various risk assessments that apply to specific technologies and use cases to tailor the service to your requirements.
- Security Report: Leave with a comprehensive security report that outlines your security threats and tells you how to mediate them to keep your operations secure at all times.
- Availability and Business Continuity: Maximize your service availability and plan for disaster recovery
- Change and Configuration Management: Manage changes to services configuration settings across your environment.
- Operations and Monitoring: Manage and perform day-to-day operations within your environment.
- Performance and Scalability: Deliver the expected user experience by managing current and future performance and capacity requirements.
- Security and Compliance: Protect your services from attack and ensure the integrity and privacy of your data.
- Upgrade, Migration and Deployment: Manage product or development lifecycles, migrations between platforms, and deployment of new services into your environment.
Examples of Risk Assessments
- Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager: Risk Assessment Plus (1, 3 or 4 Days): Gain an insight into the health of your Microsoft Endpoint Manager environment by proactively diagnosing issues and risks, reviewing your results online, and receiving continuous updates to best practice guidance. Analyze your environment against best practices developed by Microsoft technology experts, then work with an expert to understand your results and develop a plan that limits risk and improves your environment. Assess the site servers, site database servers, and site system servers in your Configuration Manager environment. Collect and analyze client heath data that is available from Configuration Manager site servers. It is designed for a single on-premises or Azure virtual machine (IaaS) hierarchy, ensuring compatibility with supported versions of Microsoft Endpoint Manager and Windows Server. This assessment is available as an “Offline Assessment” (4 Days – onsite; on-premises; with training and planning), “RAP as a Service” (1 day – remote; cloud hosted) or as “RAP as a Service PLUS” (3 days – 1 remote/2 onsite; cloud hosted; with training and planning).
- Microsoft SharePoint Online: Risk Assessment Plus (1 or 3 Days): Gain an insight into the health of your SharePoint Online tenant by proactively diagnosing issues and risks, reviewing your results online, and receiving continuous updates to best practice guidance. Analyze your environment against best practices developed by experts, then work with an expert to understand your results and develop a plan that limits risk and improves your environment. Assess your SharePoint Online tenant configuration, topology, data integrity and more. This service assesses a single SharePoint Online tenant. It is available as “RAP as a Service” (1 day) or as “RAP as a Service PLUS” (3 days; with training and planning).
- Microsoft SQL Server: Complex Risk Assessment (1 or 3 Days): Gain an insight into the health of your SQL Server environment by proactively diagnosing issues and risks, reviewing your results online, and receiving continuous updates to best practice guidance. Analyze your environment against best practices developed by Microsoft technology experts, then work with a Microsoft expert to understand your results and develop a plan that limits risk and improves your environment. This assessment is available for an on premises, Azure Virtual Machine (VM), or Amazon EC2 (AWS) SQL Server environment, with up to five servers or failover clusters running supported versions of SQL Server and Windows Server. This assessment is available as “RAP as a Service” (1 day) or as “RAP as a Service PLUS” (3 days; with training and planning).
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