Providing Your Clients With Improved Microsoft Cloud Security

By Bob Vogel

The Big Security Issues in Microsoft 365 Cloud Hidden From Most MSPs

Do the end users at your client sites use Teams to interact virtually? What about SharePoint to collaborate on documents? Maybe OneDrive to store business and personal files? Or Outlook’s web version to email?

If they do, their data and proprietary information may be at more risk than you think. And on top of that, they might be wasting money and slowing things down. 

Your clients may be oblivious to the cybersecurity risks and productivity problems that they create when they use Microsoft 365’s cloud services and applications. That’s why it’s up to you as the MSP to run regular assessments of the Microsoft Cloud environment for all your clients with Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365).

Microsoft takes the security of their platform very seriously and has received high marks from the experts on the effectiveness of their service-level security. But that doesn’t protect your clients from their own people, who are probably performing high-risk actions within these applications on a regular basis, whether that behavior is accidental or malicious. Their account credentials can also be acquired via phishing scams and used by third parties to gain access to corporate data stored in the Microsoft Cloud.