Understand your current position
Establish whether access to business information matches the way your organisation needs to work.
Microsoft 365 security.
Review how your business email and documents are protected, and decide which changes are worth making.
Understand how email and documents are protected
Microsoft 365 often develops around staff changes, new projects and external collaboration. Over time it can become difficult to explain who has access to what, even when day-to-day support is working well.
I review those arrangements in the context of your business. That gives you an account of where changes are needed, which improvements your existing services can support and what the IT provider and business each need to maintain.
What the advice gives you
Assess existing capabilities
Find out what your current services can provide before considering additional purchases.
Agree justified improvements
Give your IT team or provider priorities linked to business needs and the risks identified.
Questions the work can answer
- Who can access important information, including external collaborators?
- Are joining, leaving and sharing arrangements consistently managed?
- Can the business explain its protection when a client asks?
You receive a focused assessment of your Microsoft 365 arrangements and recommended actions. I can help you decide what to address first and oversee the agreed work.
An example situation
Clearer control of client information in Microsoft 365
A fictional professional services firm has grown through new offices and staff changes. A client asks who can access its documents, and the firm cannot give a clear answer.
Potential benefit: Clearer responsibility for access, fewer unnecessary permissions and a more reliable answer when clients ask how their information is protected.
Related advice
IT security
Understand how well your business is protected, address weaknesses and make security part of the way your systems are managed.
Business continuity
Understand what a systems outage would mean for your business and whether your recovery arrangements meet that need.
Discuss what your business needs.
Tell me what you want to improve or understand. The initial conversation is free.