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SHI Environment Lockdown and Defense (SHIELD)
Insider expertise to streamline your M365 environment, enhance security, and reduce costs.
Your organization relies on Microsoft 365, but are you wrestling with its intricacies? Organizations face mounting challenges — from spiraling license complexity and underutilization of existing tools to security risks and misconfigurations.
As an IT leader balancing board-level security demands, budget pressures, and user experience expectations, you need a partner who understands these competing priorities.
Introducing SHI Environment Lockdown and Defense (SHIELD), a comprehensive, integrated security and optimization platform designed to help you regain control over your Microsoft environment. SHIELD streamlines security configurations, reduces technology overlap, and provides granular views of waste and risk within M365 licensing. As your strategic Microsoft partner, SHI provides both the SHIELD platform and comprehensive support from our Microsoft-certified experts.
Discover: Control M365 spend with data-driven insights.
Gain clarity on M365 usage with feature-level analysis, user identification, and optimized licensing recommendations. All of our customers have either identified opportunities to save money or reduce the risk of an audit through their initial assessment, gaining the data needed to justify every licensing dollar to finance.
Deploy: Simplify M365 configuration management.
Streamline user and device configurations with architecture as a service. Reduce configuration time by up to 50% and free your team to focus on strategic initiatives that drive business value.
Defend: Secure privileged access with proven methods.
85% of breaches in the last year were preventable with secure architecture. Implement privileged access workstations (PAWs) and start eliminating attack classes with SHIELD. When executives ask about security posture, you'll have confidence in your protection against the most common attack vectors.
Is your Microsoft setup holding you back?
- Are you concerned about a Microsoft audit reviewing five years of usage?
- Are you unsure if the right license types are assigned to the appropriate users?
- Do you struggle with spending too much time on manual security configurations?
- Do you find it difficult to translate your Microsoft investment into demonstrable business value?
- Are you worried about security gaps that could lead to a breach?
Explore SHIELD’s strategic modules
Discover
Organizations typically find 110-200% of licenses are either overprovisioned or unused. SHIELD’s Discover module provides feature-level insights, identifies user types, and provides optimal licensing recommendations. SHI's licensing experts ensure you're both technically and contractually optimized.
Deploy
SHIELD Deploy reduces configuration time from days to hours with pre-built templates and automation with architecture as a service. SHI's Microsoft-certified architects customize these configurations to your specific business requirements, users, and risk profile.
Defend
SHIELD’s Defend module implements Microsoft-recommended PAW configurations. Organizations that have properly implemented PAW-backed architecture through SHIELD have experienced no critical incidents and zero downtime due to breaches since adoption. SHI's security experts continuously update these configurations as the threat landscape evolves.