We hear a lot about the Microsoft Cloud. We hear a lot about transforming an organisation. It’s also common to hear a lot about investing in digital, or investing in security measures. Let’s break down a few of the common questions we hear, and put some of the concerns to rest.
To start with, let’s imaging that you’re thinking about how to protect your data and people from new arising threats with working from anywhere. We know this is a crucial element to the modern ways of working. There were 7x more cyber-attacks in 2020 with an average cost of £401K per attack. You are facing increased sign-ins from previously unknown devices. You’ve become a distributed working environment overnight, and you may not have made any or very few investments into security since this change. The single best thing you can do to improve security is to turn on MFA. Also warn your employees to expect more phishing attempts – invest in quality security training and keep investing in that training.
49% of employees prefer a BYOD
Working from home, from the local café, or even in the office, 49% of employees prefer a bring your own device model (BYOD), but many employees are using free or consumer solutions with minimal security or access sensible work data through unmanaged or unprotected devices.
Microsoft 365 offers customisable security baselines for M365 apps, PCs and app policies for Apple & Android devices to limit exposure based on company policies
Azure Expert MSP and Microsoft Gold Partner
As a Microsoft Gold Partner and trusted Azure Expert MSP, risual can support this part of your project. There are plenty of solutions available to provide a baseline of security, and also the more proactive security measures. Contact us if you wish to find out more or discover how we can support in this area.
Further to this, there is so much more available to Microsoft solutions which will not only support with security, but also with overall productivity in a secure manner. Microsoft 365 offers a great way to save money by moving productivity tools like email to the cloud, hence reducing server upgrade and maintenance costs. Additionally, Microsoft 365 is a service that is always up-to-date, helping you stay secure and forget about upfront infrastructure costs. With affordable monthly subscription options, you can reduce your IT management costs, make your business more agile, and increase employee productivity.
‘All I need is email’
Sometimes we hear ‘I don’t need all the collaboration tools. All I need is email.’, which can be the easy option – and if you truly do just need/want email, you can subscribe to Exchange Online on its own. However, with Microsoft 365, you get a set of capabilities that offer the best-in-class collaboration experience – such as co-authoring, instant messaging, persistent chat, video conferencing, file-sharing, etc.
Forrester’s report indicates that organisations that move to Microsoft 365 realise up to 48 minutes/worker/week through an improved collaboration experience, on addition to reducing 40% in travel expenses, and 35% in office space expenses.
Whilst there are clear benefits to investing in the Microsoft Cloud for both security and productivity, it’s important that you also have trust in the cloud. Microsoft bear great responsibility to protect its customers and work together with fellow defenders to make the world a safer place. Microsoft is the largest security vendor in the world, helping to secure more than 650,000 organisations. Microsoft continue to invest approx. £$1 billion into cloud security each year, another reason to put your trust into the Microsoft Cloud. When using Microsoft Security products, you get the benefit of both the ever-improving AI and the human expertise.
risual continue to promote the brilliant results Microsoft products and security can drive for organisations like yours, and each day we strive to help organisations not only be secure each and every day, but also proactivity prevent any potential cyber-attacks.
Let us work with you on your cloud journey and explore how we can implement the perfect security strategy tailored to your organisation.
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Microsoft UK
Microsoft’s Office 365 Release Marks More Than Just The Delivery Of A New Platform (forrester.com)
Microsoft report shows increasing sophistication of cyber threats – Microsoft On the Issues
