Discover how Blackstone leveraged Vectra Protect for a secure and efficient Microsoft 365 migration, enhancing their cybersecurity posture. Learn about their challenges and the strategic solutions provided by Vectra AI, including risk assessment and expert consultations.
To optimize Microsoft 365 (M365) posture during a large-scale deployment, Blackstone's security team utilized Vectra Protect to uncover hidden settings, strengthen existing configurations, and benefit from prioritized risk assessments and expert consultations.
Facing a massive cross-functional deployment of Microsoft 365 (M365), the security team at Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, needed to ensure thorough M365 posture management and controls without interfering with the existing migration timeline.
After an initial scan using Microsoft’s native tools, the team realized that hundreds of settings were hidden below the surface, unobserved by the original scan. With Vectra Protect, a Microsoft-certified tool, they reviewed hundreds of combinations of M365 settings. The posture assessment also helped the team confirm and further harden existing settings and conditional access (CA) policies that the team was uncertain about during deployment.
While the security team uncovered many configurations that created weaknesses across their four services—Azure AD, Exchange, Teams, and SharePoint—Vectra Protect also supported several ancillary initiatives.
“It was eye opening to hear that the problem was an order of magnitude larger than we thought it was. Vectra’s solution and expertise has helped us uncover and review hundreds of settings that we never would have known about.”
“Through one simple integration, completed in just a single day, we were able to add over 50 new threat detections against our Microsoft 365 environment.”