Here's the uncomfortable truth about most Microsoft 365 tenants we assess: the security the firm is already paying for was never switched on. Multi-factor authentication, Conditional Access, Safe Links, and Microsoft Defender protections ship dark by default in many configurations — present in the license, absent in practice.
The result is a firm that believes it's protected because it bought the right plan, while sign-ins still work with just a password and phishing links still open clean. Attackers don't need to defeat your security when it was never enabled.
The move this weekOpen your Microsoft Secure Score and read what it says. It is a list of protections you already own, ranked by impact. Turning on the top three items typically does more for your security than any product you could buy this quarter.
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