Baseline your Microsoft security posture, prioritise improvements, and deliver measurable uplift through a practical remediation backlog.
Microsoft Secure Score is a measurement of an organisation’s security posture based on configuration and security controls. Microsoft describes Secure Score as providing improvement actions and recommendations to increase resilience and reduce risk across Microsoft products and services.
LW IT Solutions turns Secure Score into an implementable improvement programme. We baseline your current score, validate the relevance of improvement actions for your environment, and produce a prioritised remediation backlog that balances risk reduction, effort, and business impact. We then implement quick wins and staged hardening changes with change control, and we provide reporting so you can evidence improvement over time.
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Service Overview
Highlights
- Secure Score baseline and posture review across the relevant Microsoft portals (scope agreed in discovery)
- Improvement action triage: remove noise, confirm applicability, and map to business risk
- Prioritised remediation backlog (risk, effort, dependencies, and change impact)
- Quick wins implementation (where safe) and staged hardening roadmap for higher-impact changes
- Policy and control alignment: ensure improvements align to your Zero Trust strategy and operational model
- Evidence and reporting: before/after metrics, decision logs, and governance cadence recommendations
Business Benefits
- Create a measurable baseline of security posture and improvement opportunities
- Accelerate risk reduction by prioritising actions that matter most to your environment
- Reduce disruption by delivering improvements through phased change control and validation
- Improve audit readiness with documented decisions, backlog tracking, and measurable progress
Typical use cases
- Organisations that have Secure Score available but lack a structured remediation programme
- Security leaders needing a prioritised backlog and a credible plan for improvement
- Preparing for audits or compliance programmes where evidence of continual improvement is valuable
- Post-incident or post-migration posture uplift to harden identity, endpoints, and data controls
Objectives & deliverables
What Success Looks Like
- A clear Secure Score baseline and an agreed scope of improvement actions for remediation
- A prioritised backlog with realistic sequencing and change impact understood
- Implemented quick wins plus a phased plan for higher-impact improvements
What You Get
- Secure Score assessment report (current score, key gaps, and recommended focus areas)
- Improvement action triage log (what we will do, what we won’t do, and why)
- Prioritised remediation backlog with effort/risk scoring and dependencies
- Quick wins implementation (where agreed) with change records and validation notes
- Roadmap for staged improvements and governance cadence for ongoing uplift
How It Works
- Discovery and scope - confirm which Microsoft workloads and portals are in scope, and define success measures.
- Baseline and triage - capture the score and improvement actions, validate applicability, and identify quick wins.
- Backlog and roadmap - prioritise actions by risk reduction and effort; plan sequencing and dependencies.
- Implement - deliver agreed changes with change control and validation; capture evidence of improvement.
- Handover - provide governance cadence, tracking model, and recommendations for continuous improvement.
Engagement Options
- Secure Score Assessment (baseline + triage + backlog)
- Secure Score Quick Wins Sprint (targeted improvements delivered in a short engagement)
- Secure Score Remediation Programme (phased improvements with governance and reporting)
- Operate (monthly posture reviews, backlog management, and continuous improvement delivery)
Additional Information
Prerequisites & licensing
Secure Score is available within Microsoft security products and services. The set of improvement actions shown depends on what Microsoft products you use and how they are configured. During discovery we confirm the portals and workloads in scope and define the most relevant improvement actions for your environment.
- Access to the relevant Microsoft security portals and the correct admin roles is required to review actions and implement changes.
- We validate business impact for each improvement action before implementing high-impact changes.
- We maintain decision logs for actions that are deferred or rejected so posture reviews remain defensible.
Common Bundles
Customers who use this service often bundle with these services
Zero Trust Architecture & Hardening
Design and implement a Microsoft aligned Zero Trust programme covering identity, devices, least privilege access, segmentation, and continuous monitoring.
Defender for Endpoint (EDR)
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