Softchoice Security Platformization Assessment and Design

Security Platformization is a key initiative for many companies. This motion allows customers to reduce their overall security toolset, optimize their current Microsoft Security tools to ensure customers are getting the most coverage of their environment, and enable security innovation by activating additional tools and capabilities within the Microsoft Security stack, and allows the alignment of customer priorities around key strategies like Zero Trust.

The Softchoice Security Platformization and Design Assessment is a consultive lead engagement that brings together customers’ priorities within security and industry leading best practices around security and Microsoft Security tools. This assessment obtains a clear picture of the current security landscape and what tools are in place within the customer’s environment.

Through staged approach initiative Softchoice works with the customer to determine the next steps forward within Microsoft Security

Stage 1 - Information Gathering - Softchoice works with the customer to collect information around the security landscape and what tools are being utilized within the environment currently.

Stage 2 - Calibration and Design - Based on the information gathered within Stage 1 Softchoice works with our internal security resources to make a clear distinction on security platform, foundational technologies, licensing needs, and designs the next steps for customers within the Microsoft Security and corresponding partners’ landscape. Softchoice then creates an overall security design to customers, highlighting the enablement and enhancement of the Microsoft Security Toolset. These findings are presented to the customer as an overall security roadmap based on core industry security standards like Zero Trust

Stage 3 - Enablement - Once this information is presented Softchoice Journey Architects work with the customer to schedule the next step in the process, enabling these recommendations around Identity, Data Security and Governance, and Endpoint utilizing core security capabilities like Entra Information Protection, and the Microsoft Defender Suite utilizing Softchoice Security Professional Services around Workplace and Cloud Security capabilities

This staged approach offers a comprehensive roadmap for security next steps for our customer to adopt and overall platform approach, and utilize this design to enhance security capabilities while adhering to industry security standards.