Transforming Security Landscape: Innovative Strategies for SMBs Through Microsoft Defender
Transforming Security Landscape: Innovative Strategies for SMBs Through Microsoft Defender
Microsoft Defender for Business is the missing piece in the Cyber Security puzzle.
Enhanced Security: Centralised Control
and Unified Threat Anticipation
Improved Productivity: Automated Workflows and Flexible Device Authentication
Overview
A small-medium business in the consumer goods industry with an IT department of just 3 employees out of 220, wanted to enhance its cyber security by migrating its on-premises data centre to a cloud storage solution. Thereby relieving the workload pressure placed on their small IT team.
They aimed to deploy Microsoft Defender for Business to enhance their businesses cyber security and wanted to add Microsoft Intune to improve their endpoint device management, ensuring that all their employees could operate in a flexible hybrid work environment from multiple devices whilst maintaining security for their sensitive company data and applications on cloud platforms.
Challenge
During the Covid-19 pandemic, cyber attacks on SMBs largely increased, and with more hacking attempts originating in Russia due to the war in Ukraine, the issue of cyber security has only accelerated across Europe.
This concerned this SMB, as their small IT team had the challenge of managing several virtual machines and although the company had deployed a security information and event management (SIEM) system to help detect and analyse security threats before they harm business operations, it didn’t interoperate with all their systems. This meant the IT team had to manage multiple systems and ensuring their security, compliance, identity management and device management were up to date which only added to their ever-increasing workloads. The problem was also heightened due to the organisation’s growth with three instantiations of on-premises Active Directory, each controlling access for multiple endpoints, access control for the business became a challenge.
Solution
New Scaler supported the company with their adoption of Defender for Business, focusing on the specific needs of the SMB to streamline the effectiveness of their modern work environment. They extended their security controls by acquiring Microsoft Intune, allowing them to discover data that was being stored in outdated formats.
New Scaler’s assistance helped reveal to the company several Excel documents in outdated versions. New Scaler further aided the organisation by constructing an educational campaign to teach their employees how to convert their content to the newest and safest formats, thereby helping them minimise human error and possible insider threats within the business.
Results
Through strategic collaboration with New Scaler, the organisation achieved the following notable advancements in both security and productivity:
- Enhanced Security: The effective configuration of their solution by New Scaler allowed the organisation to manage all their cyber security centrally from a singular portal rather than having to manage individual endpoints. This helped relieve the workload pressure on the IT department. Defender for Business provided unified reporting that helped the SMB anticipate potential cyber threats for the future.
- Improved Productivity: New Scaler configured the automation function of Defender for Business which saved valuable time for their pressured IT team, largely improving the productivity of their workflow. Also, New Scaler’s customised configuration of Microsoft Intune tools granted the company far more flexibility for their employees as they could ensure that all their employee’s devices were authenticated whilst ensuring the protection of their sensitive applications and data on their network.
Conclusion
This example demonstrates the immense impact New Scaler’s centralised management solutions with unified Microsoft systems can have on SMBs and their burdened IT teams. Our solutions provide vast support that benefits the growth of these businesses which is evident by the company’s improved Microsoft Secure Score which increased to 82, illustrating how New Scaler’s solutions can transform organisations by migrating to cloud platforms in the era of modern work and thereby enhancing their cyber security.
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