SA-M365ZT

Microsoft 365 Zero Trust Deployment

Zero Trust across Microsoft 365 — identity, devices, threats, data, and AI — built to Microsoft's own deployment plan.

What this is

Zero Trust is a simple idea wrapped in complicated language. The idea is — don't trust anything just because it's inside your network. Every time a user signs in, every time a device requests access, every time a file leaves the organization, the system should ask questions first.

Most Microsoft 365 environments we walk into have some of these checks turned on, some turned off, and some installed but never tuned. The work isn't to install new software. The work is to take what's already there, make it work together, and then keep it that way.

We follow Microsoft's own Microsoft 365 Zero Trust deployment plan. Not because Microsoft pays us to — they don't — but because their plan is built from helping millions of organizations, and inventing our own version rarely turns out better.

What you'll get

A Microsoft 365 tenant that passes the Zero Trust assessment. Defender XDR working across all four products with playbooks the security team has tested, not just received. Sensitivity labels on the data that actually matters, with DLP policies tuned to your real exposure paths, not generic templates.

Microsoft Copilot governance in place before you roll Copilot out, so AI doesn't expose what was already overshared. A Compliance Manager assessment scored, with the next twenty actions ranked by impact.

And — this matters more than the technology — a team on your side who understands why every setting was made. We work alongside your engineers throughout. By week sixteen, they own the system, not us.

How it goes

A · Foundation
Identity and endpoints first

Weeks 1–6. We start with Microsoft Entra ID — MFA, Conditional Access, identity protection — and then Microsoft Intune across every platform you support. By the end of this phase, every user and every device that touches your environment is checked every time. This is the part most organizations think they've done. Usually they've done about 60% of it.

B · Protection
Defender XDR and Purview

Weeks 7–12. Defender XDR across all four — Identity, Office 365, Endpoint, Cloud Apps. Then Microsoft Purview Information Protection with sensitivity labels and DLP. The hard part isn't deploying these. The hard part is tuning them so your security team gets the signals that matter and isn't drowned in noise. We spend most of this phase tuning.

C · Governance
AI and compliance

Weeks 13–16. DSPM for AI configured. Microsoft Copilot governance ready. Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager assessed, with a prioritized roadmap for the next six months. Then 30 days of hypercare while your team takes over.

Practical details

Duration
8–16 weeks, depending on size and current state
Delivery
On-site for workshops, remote for configuration work
Licensing
Microsoft 365 E3 minimum, E5 recommended for full AI compliance
Identity tier
Microsoft Entra ID P1 minimum, P2 for identity protection features
Your side
One IT lead as a working partner, available for weekly syncs

If you want to talk through your situation — your size, what you've already done, what's worrying you — write to us.

+66 81 919 0291

We usually reply the same day.

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