Please note, we have an onsite form of the workshop

Our objective is to help customers identify potential cybersecurity risks and gain knowledge about technologies that can help mitigate those risks.

IT Partner responsibilities #

• Understand the customer's status vs cyberattacks. Help the customer identify elements in their IT environment that might make it prone to rapidly spreading and potentially destructive cyberattacks (e.g., ransomware attacks).
• Cyberattacks technical security readiness. Provide guidance, recommendations, and best practices on how to successfully use Microsoft technologies to mitigate security threats that are associated with rapid cyberattacks.
• Create rapid cyberattack road map. Provide prioritized and actionable road map for the customer, containing proposed actions based on discovered gaps, considering user impact and implementation cost.
• Map Microsoft technology capabilities and Partner services to assessment findings, taking into account the customer's objectives and requirements.

Client responsibilities #

• Information: This includes accurate, timely (within three business days or as mutually agreed upon), and complete information
• Access to people. This includes access to knowledgeable customer personnel, including business user representatives, and access to funding if additional budget is needed to deliver project scope
• RCA tools should be installed and configured

Plan #

Webinar 1 -- Kickoff

• Kickoff meeting
• Introduction to the engagement: objectives, flow, responsibilities, and governance
• Provide and explain preassessment questionnaire to the customer

Webinar 2

• Ensure availability of necessary resources
• Review RCA tool results
• Begin road map planning
• Confirmation on the completeness of the questionnaire or RCA tool output
• Definition of rapid cyberattacks
• Review, explain, and discuss questionnaire and tool findings
• Identify opportunities to leverage already deployed entitlements
• Perform gap analysis
• Finalize road map

Webinar 3

• Road map delivery workshop
• Solution(s) briefing and Technical Readiness presentations
• Engagement close-out

Results #

• Kickoff presentation. Overview of the engagement, covering vision and objectives, requirements, and next steps and actions
• A questionnaire about the organization and their approach to exploit mitigation and attack surface reduction, ways of securing privileged access and providing business continuity to mitigate effects of potential cyberattacks, etc.
• Rapid cyberattack assessment tool reports. A set of reports documenting findings of the RCA tool -- reviewed and discussed by the partner in the workshop
• Rapid cyberattack road map. Actionable road map for addressing discovered gaps, including mapping capabilities of Microsoft technologies and Partner services to assessment findings, taking into account customer's objectives and requirements