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Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 Security portfolio should be viewed as a swiss army knife, comprising a range of solutions that can be assembled to protect your organisation and its data.
Performanta’s Managed Controls Service for Microsoft 365, takes a holistic approach to your security, by considering all controls and risks to your Microsoft 365 tenancy rather than focusing on specific areas.
We provide a baseline for Microsoft 365 security compliance and work with clients, in the context of ISO 27001, to improve security controls across their estate and adapt to new threats and technologies.
Performanta consultants and architects are experts in designing, deploying, assessing, optimising and managing security controls across the most complex security environment. We’ll tailor the service to meet your organisation’s needs.
Performanta’s Managed Controls Service for Microsoft 365, takes away the management overhead and potential confusion around what to focus on and the overhead of repetitive tasks such as report assessment.
Managed Sentinel
More than just a Security Information and Event Management [SIEM] solution, Microsoft Sentinel collates and assesses data from your entire estate, identifying risks and threats that may not be readily obvious but can be identified by connecting a series of alerts.
Performanta works with SecOps teams to:
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Integrate Microsoft Sentinel into their SOC, either replacing or augmenting an existing SIEM
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Configure the solution to minimise charges for data processing and storage
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Train users and tune the SIEM to deliver maximum security value.
We can also provide 24/7 monitoring of your Microsoft Sentinel solution, detecting and responding to threats, and giving you visibility and situational awareness into your IT environments.
Managed Defender
Microsoft Defender is the guardian to your Microsoft 365 estate, identifying and protecting against threats as they arise.
Microsoft Defender comprises a broad and increasing range of solutions for detecting and responding to threats that exploit vulnerabilities in the attack surface of your organisation.
Performanta works with SecOps teams to:
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Design and integrate Microsoft Defender solutions into their SOC.
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Configure the solution to minimise charges for data processing and storage
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Train users and tune the SIEM to deliver maximum security value.
We can also provide 24/7 monitoring of your Microsoft Defender solution, detecting and responding to threats, and giving you visibility and situational awareness into your IT environments.
Managed Intune
Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based service that helps organisations manage the devices and applications their employees use. It reduces organisations’ attack surface and ensures that corporate data remains secure.
The theory is easy, but in practice they can be tricky to set up: compatibility issues with existing systems, and the need for continuous management can be significant hurdles.
As a long-standing Microsoft Security partner, Performanta is experienced at implementing and managing Microsoft Intune solutions that deliver:
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enhanced security
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streamlined device management and reduced IT overhead costs
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increased productivity
improved compliance with regulatory requirements.
Managed Entra
Microsoft Entra is a suite of identity and access management solutions designed to secure access to resources across multi-cloud environments. It is used to implement “Zero Trust” security, helping to prevent over-privileged permissions, improve threat detection, and enforce granular access controls.
Implementing Microsoft Entra can be challenging due to the complexity of integrating it with existing systems and processes, and managing identity across hybrid environments, and minimising disruption to users. Additionally, it needs to be continuously monitored and updated to address evolving threats.
As a long-standing Microsoft Security partner, Performanta is experienced at implementing and managing Microsoft Entra solutions that deliver:
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enhanced security posture and reduced risk of data breaches
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streamlined access management and increased operational efficiency by consolidating identity and access management tools
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improved compliance with regulatory requirements.
Working with your staff on a pilot deployment, we assure the deployment methodology, endpoint security and interoperability before rolling out solutions more widely.
Managed Purview
Microsoft Purview is a data governance and compliance solution that helps organizations manage, protect, and govern their data across on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS platforms. It helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, prevent data breaches, and manage risks associated with data handling.
Organizations often struggle with the complexity of integrating it across diverse data environments, data visibility, classification, and maintaining consistent security policies.
Performanta is a vendor-agnostic DLP specialist with over 20 years of experience. We enable customers to share data safely and mitigate legal issues and brand damage that might result from data loss and data leakage.
Our Managed Purview service delivers:
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continuous data discovery and classification
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automated policy enforcement
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real-time monitoring and alerting
compliance with regulatory requirements.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
The case for DLP is usually clear to the business, but the implementation is often relegated to a simple technology deployment which fails to live up to expectations. Successful and mature DLP solutions are the result of an ongoing inter-disciplinary business programme rather than a one-off IT project and Performanta has developed its own DLP framework to help achieve this.
We have industry-leading DLP experience and can offer implementation, migration, optimisation and management of your DLP service. We support Microsoft Purview, Forcepoint, Netskope, and Broadcom DLP.
Our DLP service starts with a due diligence assessment of the client’s requirements, controls, and processes, and the DLP team’s level of engagement with the business to understand the existing or proposed DLP operating model and any constraints on a successful programme. Following this thorough look into the client from both a business and security perspective, we will draw up a plan for the appropriate managed service for DLP.
Navigating complexity requires expertise and experience. Performanta’s DLP consultants can assist to deconstruct “current state” and provide insight; the more deeply you understand business processes and the people who interact with your data assets, the better you can protect that data and control the risks associated with it. The DLP FlexMDR Service is designed to take over the burden of running a successful DLP programme, providing client measurable business value and improved regulatory compliance, and is provided 24x7x365.
In the diagram below we refer to the main dimensions in a DLP programme: Data, Technical, Business and Process. We demonstrate how the vital security dimensions fit in a logical way to ensure a successful DLP implementation.
Identity and Access
Enterprise Identity Management
Digital identities, made up of credentials and access points, are crucial to secure. Managing identities can be challenging, but effective Identity Access Management (IAM) solutions prevent data breaches and inefficiencies.
Performanta automates the Joiners, Movers, Leavers (JML) process ensuring quick, accurate access management, reduces errors, and supports GDPR compliance.
We provide self-service access to your employees, allowing them to manage passwords and access requests, lightening IT workloads and ensuring regular security reviews.
Privileged Access Management
Effective access control is critical as technology and digital identities become integral to operations. A Zero Trust approach—never trust, always verify—ensures permissions are granted only when necessary, safeguarding sensitive information.
Performanta provides Microsoft 365 solutions for:
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Conditional access: granted only when conditions are met, reducing unnecessary Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) prompts and saving time.
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Privileged Access: just in time, just enough, limiting exposure. Privileged Identity Management (PIM) further reduces risk by logging all admin actions for clear audits and accountability.
The result is greater control over what employees can see, and the assurance that previous employees are restricted from accessing anything they shouldn’t – ensuring compliance and security across the organisation.
Endpoint & Network Security Services
Endpoints can be physical devices, like computers, phones, and printers, or virtual devices, like cloud services and web applications. Endpoints are cyber threat targets because they are entry points into a network, but the diversity of devices, the complexity of networks and the changing nature of the threat, makes securing them a challenge.
Performanta’s Managed Controls and Security Assurance services have been designed to complement organisational maturity of all levels, and to meet the requirements of modern connected enterprises.
Email Security
Getting email security right is key to securing your business, but tightening the net too much creates email delay, and being too open means that threats will get in daily.
Our email security services combine our security expertise with carefully chosen technology vendors to keep you Cyber Safe.
Performanta uses Ironscales with Microsoft 365 to provide self-learning and AI driven email security, that continuously detects and remediates advanced threats such as credential harvesting, account takeover and BEC (Business Email Compromise) attacks.
We deploy comprehensive security across your email within minutes, ensuring your employees and executive team are protected from sophisticated attacks.
The combination of these powerful solutions will help to secure your organisation from today’s rapid and evolving social engineering attacks, such as internal and vendor impersonations, supply chain attacks, Account Takeover (ATO) and other financial frauds that are hyper-targeted against your organisation.
Security architecture
Cyber security architecture integrates and aligns an organisation’s security controls with its business objectives.
In practice, this can be a challenge: modern IT environments are complex, with numerous interconnected systems and devices, and cyber threats and security regulations continually evolve.
Performanta combines the security design expertise with experience of implementing and integrating Microsoft products and those of other leading vendors to deliver solutions that:
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Minimise vulnerabilities and the risk of being breached.
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Enable critical operations to continue even in the event of an attack.
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Meet legal and regulatory requirements, avoiding fines and penalties.
We build robust cyber security architecture by:
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assessing the current security posture and identify gaps.
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choosing a security framework (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001) that aligns with organizational needs. Designing, implementing and updating security archtiectures, as needed to address new threats and changes in the IT landscape.
Planning & Deployment
Security systems that integrate with many other systems can take weeks and months to deploy and tune to a point that they deliver sufficient security value.
Performanta uses the APBRI cycle approach when deploying its services, which ensures that we meet your specific needs and goals at every stage, and that they rapidly deliver security value.