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This module examined how Microsoft Secure Score helps organizations understand:

  • What they did to reduce the risk to their data.
  • How they can further reduce that risk.

Secure Score is a security analytics tool that analyzes the Microsoft 365 services an organization is using. It then looks at the organization's configuration and behaviors and compares them to a baseline that Microsoft configured. This module showed how the Secure Score tool enables organizations to track and plan incremental improvements over a longer period of time.

This module examined the benefits of Secure Score and what kind of services it analyzes. You also explored how to use the Secure Score tool to identify gaps between your current state and where you would like to be concerning security. Having completed this module, you should know where to identify actions that increase your security by mitigating risks. Finally, you learned where to look to determine the threats each action mitigates and the effect it has on users.