Microsoft 365 Administration Inside Out, 3rd Edition

Chapter 5

Secure Score

Overview

Assessing your security posture

Prioritizing improvements in your security posture

Reporting on your security posture

What’s next?

In this chapter, we will look at how to take advantage of one of the lesser-known but very powerful tools included with Microsoft 365, Secure Score. Like any tool, its utility lies as much in the skill of the craftsman as within the tool itself, so we are going to look at how you can use it to its best advantage and increase your own skills with security assessment across the full set of Microsoft 365 services.

Secure Score is a tool included with Microsoft 365 tenants that helps customers assess and improve their organization’s security posture when using Microsoft’s cloud services. ...