Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Read-only evidence for machine coverage, onboarding, sensor health, device risk, software, vulnerabilities, security recommendations, incidents, and alerts where licensing and APIs permit.
Provider-aware endpoint protection evidence
Endpoint Security & EDR Assurance
Determine whether endpoint detection and response coverage is visible, governed, supportable, and aligned with the organization’s stated security model—without changing devices or tenant configuration.
Three supported operating models
Assess the client’s actual EDR strategy.
The review does not assume every client uses Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and does not require access to third-party vendor APIs.
Third-party EDR
Client-supplied coverage, governance, ownership, integration, response, exception, retention, and operational evidence. No CrowdStrike or other vendor API access is requested.
No enterprise EDR
Document the control gap, affected platforms, compensating controls, business exposure, ownership, and a prioritized path toward approved endpoint detection and response coverage.
Microsoft Defender evidence
Coverage, exposure, and response signals—not just configuration.
Machines & onboarding
Inventory, last-seen status, onboarding state, platform, sensor health, risk, exposure, and device-group visibility.
Vulnerabilities & software
Available vulnerability, software inventory, exposure, and remediation-priority evidence from approved read-only APIs.
Security recommendations
Configuration and remediation recommendations organized into accountable, risk-ranked actions.
Incidents & alerts
Graph Security incident and alert themes within the approved lookback period. Zero records are reported as valid evidence, not treated as collection failure.
Access and client protection
Read-only, tenant-bound, and evidence-qualified.
The Microsoft path supports delegated or application-certificate access. Requested permissions are disclosed before collection and must be approved by the client.
- Expected tenant identity verification
- Delegated or certificate-based application access
- Read permissions only; no isolate, scan, offboard, or remediation actions
- No third-party EDR API access
- Collection issues and licensing constraints retained as evidence
- Integrity manifest and packaged client deliverables
Evidence confidence
Availability is disclosed, never implied.
Collected
The approved source returned usable evidence and the collection completed without a material issue.
Partial
Some datasets were collected while others were limited by API availability, licensing, permissions, scope, or provider readiness.
Unavailable
The source could not be assessed. The reason and affected conclusions remain visible in the report.
Client provided
Governance or third-party evidence was supplied by the client and remains subject to owner validation and supporting documentation.
Assessment does not equal certification.
Findings are mapped to applicable Microsoft guidance, Zero Trust principles, CIS Controls, and NIST CSF categories where appropriate. Mappings organize evidence and recommendations; they do not certify the environment or replace incident response, penetration testing, or a managed SOC.
Start with the actual security model
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We will confirm the provider, access model, available evidence, assessment boundary, and fixed-scope deliverables before collection begins.