Upgrade Your Microsoft 365 Security Posture
Your organization is already on Microsoft 365, but your deployment was never properly hardened. Conditional Access is not configured. MFA is optional. Defender is running at defaults.
Factory-default Microsoft 365 deployments leave significant security gaps. Microsoft enables a set of "security defaults" that provide basic protection, but they do not configure Conditional Access policies, Defender for Office 365 tuning, Exchange Online anti-phishing hardening, or Entra ID Identity Protection.
A security hardening engagement with 4TH AND BAILEY applies CISA SCuBA baselines, NIST SP 800-53 controls, and CIS Benchmarks to your existing Microsoft 365 tenant. If your current plan is Business Basic or Business Standard, upgrading to Business Premium adds Defender for Business, Entra ID P1, Intune, and Azure Information Protection — the tools required for a genuine defense-in-depth posture.
The $8.00 per user per month difference between Business Standard and Business Premium is the cost of moving from factory defaults to an enterprise security posture. For most organizations, that is the right investment.