Microsoft Secure Score Pros and Cons

Microsoft Secure Score gives an indication of your security posture of your platform conform the best practices and other customers. It is a scoring mechanism that is used across multiple segments of the microsoft cloud estate, each having their own score. Advisories will show what the impact is on the score when you make the change.

Secure Score is always enabled and available for all customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the score is not really reflecting the security posture, because of the specifics of the cloud workload does not apply to the configuration item. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It provides a prioritized list of security recommendations based on the current configuration, helping organizations focus on the most critical security tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It primarily focuses on security within the Microsoft 365 environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use it to gauge our securities and indentify the areas where improment is needed.

It provide a numerical score and recommendations based on analysis.

It provide quantifiable metric to track security progress.It enables us in addressing the most critical issues first.It also standardise the security performance against the industrial benchmark.

It explains the security configuration to the organisation enabling us to better understand the security awareness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is limited to only Microsoft 365 environment only.Additional time, cost and resources are needed for the implentation, it will be quite challenging for small organisation like us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It helps us in assesing security related settings which we can apply on our tenant through defender portal. It gives very good recommendations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes secure scores are easy to manipulate and gives wrong recommendations.

Also some recommendations are not of our use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is easy to setup and gives visibility of misconfigurations in the Azure or M365 Cloud Environment. It provides baseline score of the security posture of the environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Currently it is following score defined already, if there is provision for customers inhouse team to be able to select the compliance control and score is adjusted acordingly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The minimal exposure I've had has been helpful to see the metrics and trends going on within. I like that it provides a score that can be observed and used as an indicator of areas to monitor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel like you need to be invested to go through the dasboard and work on actioning the recommendations provided otherwise its not very useful. The improvement list details can be quite long but at the end it comes down to making the time to go through the categories if you want to see results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It not only gives you a score to work with and monitor. It also gives you suggestions and tips on how to make the changes needed to improve your scores. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It could be a little more simpler to use and documentation easer to navigate. Id also like it show show which licenses are required in order to use some of the suggestions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Microsoft Secure Score helps my firm measure the extent of security of our critical systems. Data privacy and Information security are crucial aspects of a firm, and we cannot afford to be complacent with them. Secure Score facilitates continuous improvement in the security aspect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Though the dashboard of the secure score is very detailed, it should have been more intuitive. So, product managers can improve the UI/UX. Also, for threats from any third-party applications, apart from suggesting the improvements step, they could be automatically rectified as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the ease of use of Microsoft Secure Source in protecting our information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike nothing. The program performs exactly as I need it to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

How easy it is to navigate and find what you want so fast! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the load times are slow. It could be quicker Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.