Microsoft 365 Business Premium, E3 and E5 include enterprise-grade security — Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Entra ID protection, Microsoft Intune. Most organizations deploy a fraction of it and monitor almost none of it. Cyberneza scopes the architecture and configuration; Huntress-backed managed detection and response adds the 24/7 operational layer on top of the licences you already hold.
Security features bundled into Microsoft 365 subscriptions are frequently left partly deployed because operating them needs security-operations time an internal IT team does not have. The spend is committed either way.
Preventative controls can be bypassed, and a quiet console is consistent with both a healthy environment and a blind one. Distinguishing the two requires someone reviewing the signal continuously, not a dashboard nobody opens.
Layering a separate endpoint product over Microsoft’s stack fragments visibility and pays twice for overlapping prevention. Consolidating onto what is already licensed is usually the cheaper and clearer path.
Managed endpoint detection and response across supported endpoints, with the Huntress security operations centre reviewing Microsoft Defender alerts and producing investigated incident reports rather than raw alert volume.
Continuous detection of suspicious sign-in behaviour, session hijacking, malicious OAuth application consent, risky mailbox rules and administrative changes across supported Microsoft 365 environments.
Huntress-backed Identity Security Posture Management audits Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra ID configuration against a maintained baseline and catches drift after it happens — the settings that quietly loosen months after a tenant was correctly configured.
Cyberneza reviews the identity model, conditional access, privileged roles, application consent, device management and logging strategy, then develops configuration and remediation guidance your administrators execute through existing change control.
These are Huntress’s figures for organizations running Huntress alongside Microsoft security, not Cyberneza measurements, and they are reproduced here as vendor-reported outcomes:
Source: Guide to the Huntress & Microsoft Partnership, Huntress. Figures are Huntress’s, describing Huntress customers. Cyberneza is an authorized Huntress reseller and is not a Microsoft partner; nothing here implies a Microsoft affiliation, endorsement or certification.
A full-service engineering design firm working on mission-critical and commercial infrastructure — substation engineering, data centre load planning, arc flash studies. It grew from roughly 40 people to more than 150 in a year with a two-person IT team, and before Huntress relied mostly on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and multi-factor authentication.
The firm deployed managed EDR, identity threat detection and managed SIEM. Its IT administrator reports roughly a full day saved per investigation and remediation, and identity posture review surfaced administrator accounts the team believed had already been removed.
It is the closest published match to the organizations we work with: lean IT, fast growth, Microsoft-first, and no realistic path to staffing a 24/7 security queue. The engagement was Huntress’s, not ours.
Huntress customer outcome, published by Huntress. Cyberneza was not involved in this engagement.
Establish which Microsoft licences are held, what is actually deployed, where identity and endpoint coverage stops, and which third-party tools are duplicating capability you already own.
Cyberneza develops the deployment sequence, configuration guidance, exception handling and validation criteria. Your administrators execute approved changes through established procedures.
Confirm coverage and expected telemetry, then move the selected managed functions into continuous monitoring, investigation and response.
Endpoint, identity and logging controls are assessed under most frameworks we support. If you are working toward CMMC or NIST SP 800-171, see managed security for CMMC. For centralized logging and retention, see managed SIEM. For CUI environments specifically, see GCC High and enclave planning.
We can review the Microsoft licences you hold, what is deployed against them, and what a managed model would add — before anything is purchased.
Supported platforms, features, response actions, integrations and licensing depend on the selected Huntress service and current product availability. Microsoft 365, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Entra and Microsoft Intune are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.
