Breach to Baseline
Your Microsoft 365 Environment Is Not Secure By Default.
Whether you're cleaning up after a breach or making sure there's never a first one, we rebuild Microsoft 365 tenants to a hardened baseline. An independent, specialized Microsoft 365 security practice. Conditional Access, MFA enforcement, Defender, Intune, and email authentication, done right the first time.
No obligation. A direct conversation about where your tenant actually stands.
- MFA enforced across every user and admin account, legacy authentication blocked outright, and break-glass accounts secured with strong credentials and dedicated monitoring
- Modern, phishing-resistant sign-in for users and admins, the default here, not the exception
- Conditional Access policies closing the gaps attackers actually use
- Defender for Office 365 tuned against real phishing and BEC patterns
- SPF, DKIM, and DMARC actually enforcing, not just present
Your Microsoft 365 Tenant Is Not Secure By Default
Most tenants we get called into weren't breached because of a zero-day. They were breached because MFA wasn't enforced everywhere, a Conditional Access policy had a gap nobody caught, or years of turnover left configuration drift that nobody owned. Here's what's actually getting exploited.
No MFA Enforcement by Default
Microsoft's security defaults are easy to bypass, disable, or leave incomplete. Legacy auth, unmonitored break-glass accounts, and admin roles without phishing-resistant MFA are still some of the most common ways in.
Configuration Drift
Every added app registration, every new admin, every "just this once" exception adds up. Tenants get hardened once and never again. A few years in, nobody can say what's actually enforced versus what's just documented.
Compliance Exposure
Cyber insurance renewals, bar association obligations, and SEC/FINRA exams all assume a security baseline you may not actually have. Finding out during a claim or an audit is the expensive way to find out.
Microsoft Is Retiring SMS and Voice MFA. Is Your Tenant Ready?
Starting September 1, 2026, Microsoft begins auto-enrolling users who rely on SMS or voice for MFA into passkey registration prompts. On February 1, 2027, Microsoft-provided SMS and voice authentication is retired outright. Any user whose only MFA method is a phone number gets a blocking prompt to register a passkey before they can sign in again. There's no opt-out on that date.
Most tenants don't know how many of their users are actually still relying on it until someone checks.
- Audit of exactly who in your tenant still depends on SMS or voice for MFA
- Phishing-resistant passkey rollout for users and admins ahead of the deadline
- Break-glass account continuity planning so the cutover doesn't lock out emergency access
- Telecom provider configuration for any legitimate holdouts that still need SMS or voice
Same Stack, Different Stakes
Any organization running Microsoft 365 is a fit. These three industries get hit hardest because of what a compromised inbox actually costs them.
Privilege Doesn't Protect an Inbox
Client confidentiality isn't a policy statement, it's the whole business. A compromised partner mailbox is a malpractice exposure and a bar association problem before it's anything else. We harden the controls that actually stop business email compromise: Conditional Access tuned to how attorneys really work (remote, mobile, multiple devices), MFA that doesn't get in the way of billable hours, and impersonation protection that catches both a spoofed lookalike and a genuinely compromised account before a wire instruction goes out under a partner's name.
Compliance Exams Don't Accept "We Meant To"
SEC and FINRA examiners ask for evidence, not intentions. An unenforced MFA policy or an undocumented admin exception is a finding waiting to happen, and it's exactly the kind of gap an attacker uses to move client money. We build the identity and access controls your compliance program already claims you have, and document them so the next exam is boring.
Wire Fraud Starts With One Compromised Inbox
Construction firms move large payments on tight timelines across a web of subcontractors, vendors, and title companies, which makes them one of the most targeted industries for business email compromise. A single spoofed change order or invoice can cost more than the entire year's IT budget. We lock down email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), Conditional Access, and Defender policies so a compromised vendor account can't turn into a six-figure wire transfer.
Working With a Cyber Insurance Carrier?
If you're here because a carrier, breach coach, or outside counsel needs proof of remediation before a policy renews or a claim closes, that's exactly the engagement we specialize in. We deliver the hardened configuration plus a dated report detailing exactly what was done, ready to hand to your carrier or counsel.
Three Engagements, One Direction
From wherever your tenant is today to a hardened, monitored baseline. Pricing is scoped to your environment on a discovery call, not published here, because a five-user firm and a 400-user firm aren't the same engagement.
Know Where You're Exposed
A clear, prioritized picture of where your tenant is exposed, before you have to find out the hard way.
- MFA and Conditional Access coverage review
- Admin role and permissions audit
- Compliance exposure mapping (HIPAA / SEC / FINRA-relevant controls)
- Prioritized findings report in plain language, not a raw export
- A straight answer on what needs fixing and why
Your Tenant, Rebuilt to a Baseline
The gaps get closed. Your tenant goes from wherever it stands today to an actual hardened, documented baseline.
- Conditional Access policy deployment
- MFA enforcement across users, admins, and legacy auth
- Defender for Office 365 policy configuration
- Intune device compliance baseline
- Email authentication: SPF, DKIM, DMARC
- Documentation of what changed and why, for your records and your next audit
Stay Hardened, Not Just Get Hardened
A hardened tenant on day one is not a hardened tenant a year from now. This keeps it that way.
- Continuous drift monitoring against your baseline
- Policy updates as Microsoft's defaults and your business change
- Monthly compliance and Secure Score reporting
- Direct access when something looks wrong, not a ticket queue
Just Been Breached? Start With the Jumpstart Bundle.
Assessment and Hardening combined into a single engagement, so you go from exposed to hardened without a gap in between. Ask about it on your discovery call.
From Breach to Baseline in Four Steps
Discovery Call
A direct conversation about where your tenant stands today, what's driving the urgency, and whether you need an assessment, a hardening project, or straight to Jumpstart.
Assessment
We go through your tenant's actual configuration, not a vendor checklist, and hand you a prioritized report of what's exposed and why it matters.
Hardening
Conditional Access, MFA, Defender, Intune, and email authentication get deployed and tuned to how your organization actually operates.
Ongoing Protection
Managed Security keeps the baseline enforced as Microsoft's defaults, your team, and your risk profile change.
Why Breach to Baseline
We founded Breach to Baseline on hands-on identity and security administration inside Microsoft 365 environments, earned through MSP work and post-breach remediation for organizations that found out the hard way what happens when a Conditional Access policy has a gap, or MFA isn't actually enforced everywhere it needs to be. We specialize in Entra ID, Conditional Access, Intune, Defender for Office 365, Exchange Online, and Purview, the identity and security stack that stops the incidents we get called in to clean up after.
Breach to Baseline exists because the same preventable gaps kept causing the same expensive incidents. The name is the mission: take an environment from wherever a breach, or the threat of one, leaves it, to an actual hardened baseline, and keep it there.
Stop Waiting to Find Out the Hard Way.
Whether you're cleaning up after an incident or getting ahead of one, the fastest path to a hardened Microsoft 365 tenant starts with one conversation.
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