Microsoft 365 security for Ottawa & Gatineau organizations
Microsoft 365 is likely the heart of your business — email, files, identities. We lock it down: strong authentication, conditional access, anti-phishing defense and data protection, configured by a certified architect and aligned to Canadian compliance.
Most breaches that hit small and mid-sized organizations don’t start with a sophisticated exploit — they start with a phishing email, a reused password or an account without multi-factor authentication. And for nearly every organization, that entry point lives inside Microsoft 365. Configured well, the platform is one of the strongest defenses you have; left at its defaults, it leaves too many doors open.
We harden your Microsoft 365 tenant end to end — identities, devices, email and data — using capabilities that are often already included in your licensing. The work is architected and tuned by a Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100), then aligned to your detection posture. For continuous monitoring afterward, this service pairs with our managed detection & response.
Defense in depth, inside your licence
Identity: Entra ID, MFA & conditional access
Identity is the new perimeter — important enough to get its own page. Phishing-resistant MFA, conditional access and least privilege, so stolen credentials alone no longer get anyone in.
Defender XDR for endpoints & identity
We deploy and tune Microsoft Defender across endpoints and identities so malicious behaviour is detected and blocked — not just logged. Rules fit to your business, not a wall of alerts no one works.
Defender for Office 365: email & phishing
Email is still the top attack vector. We harden anti-phishing, anti-malware and safe-links policies, and put domain authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) in place to cut spoofing and fraudulent mail.
Secure Score remediation
We baseline your Microsoft Secure Score, prioritize the highest-impact fixes and track the gains over time — a clear measure of progress you can show leadership, auditors and insurers.
Data: Purview, labelling & retention
We classify and protect sensitive information with Microsoft Purview — sensitivity labels, data-loss prevention and retention policies — so the personal information Law 25 covers is found, controlled and retained correctly.
Certified architect, local firm
Everything is architected and tuned by a Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100), based in Ottawa and Gatineau, in French and English. You talk to the person who actually configures your environment, not a queue.
Microsoft 365 configured for Canadian compliance
Securing Microsoft 365 isn’t only about keeping attackers out — it’s also about proving you handle personal information correctly. We configure your tenant with Quebec’s Law 25 and PIPEDA in mind: Azure Canada region scoping, data classification and labelling with Purview, retention and deletion policies, and audit logging to show who accessed what. Because Law 25 — and the US CLOUD Act — turn on who controls the data as much as where it sits, we build your environment as a Canadian-owned firm, aligning it with your Law 25 compliance and data sovereignty strategy.
Microsoft 365 security assessment: scope, deliverables and cost
The assessment measures your tenant’s configuration against Microsoft’s security baselines and the CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark, and records your Secure Score as the starting point. We look at identities, conditional access, email protection, device baselines and how your data is classified — the settings attackers actually probe.
You get a prioritized fix list — what to change first, and why — plus a report written for leadership and cyber-insurers, not just IT. Published SMB ranges put a focused assessment at $1,000 to $5,000 and assessment plus hands-on hardening at $5,000 to $15,000; we confirm a fixed fee after a short scoping call. Because the work mostly draws on licences you already hold, that fixed fee is typically all you pay.
Pricing reviewed July 2026.
Clear, no-surprise pricing
Much of the security we configure is already included in the Microsoft 365 licence you likely pay for. We source, configure and manage your licences — here’s our current pricing.
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
$30.54 / user / month
- Office apps (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams)
- Email and SharePoint
- Defender for Business
- Entra ID P1 — MFA & conditional access
- Intune device management
Business Premium + Copilot
$60.47 / user / month
- Everything in Business Premium
- Copilot in Word, Excel & PowerPoint
- Copilot in Outlook & Teams
- Meeting summaries & AI-assisted drafting
- Annual commitment
Defender Suite (add-on)
$13.53 / user / month
- Defender for Endpoint Plan 2
- Defender for Identity
- Defender for Cloud Apps
- Complete device protection
- Layered on a base plan
Per user, per month, in Canadian dollars — subject to Microsoft’s pricing, which changes over time. We’ll confirm the exact licensing for your needs and give you a current quote.
A Microsoft 365 security consultant for organizations across Canada
Everything on this page happens inside your Microsoft 365 tenant — none of it requires a site visit. We’re based in Ottawa and Gatineau, but we work in your admin portals, not your boardroom, so engagements run remotely for organizations anywhere in Canada.
The shape of an engagement is simple: we review your tenant and baseline your Secure Score, hand you a prioritized plan, harden the environment in agreed stages, then walk your team through what changed and why. You keep documentation your own people can maintain — not a dependency on us.
What anchors the work is certification, not postal code: every engagement is designed and configured personally by a Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100) and Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator.
And if you want Microsoft 365 kept locked down over time, not just hardened once, our managed detection and response keeps watch continuously — security that keeps running long after the project ends.
Frequently asked questions
Isn’t Microsoft 365 already secure out of the box?
Microsoft 365 ships with powerful security tools, but most are off or loosely configured by default. Multi-factor authentication, conditional access, Defender for Office 365 anti-phishing policies and Purview data classification all have to be turned on and tailored to your organization. We configure what you’re already paying for — often with no new licensing — so an attacker can’t walk in through a default setting.
Do we need to buy extra licensing?
Not necessarily. Most Microsoft 365 Business Premium and E3/E5 plans already include Entra ID P1/P2, Defender and Purview. We start by reviewing the licences you have, then enable and tune what’s in them before recommending any additional spend.
What is Secure Score, and why does it matter?
Microsoft Secure Score measures your Microsoft 365 tenant’s security posture on a concrete scale. We use it as a starting line: we baseline your score, prioritize the highest-impact fixes, then track progress over time — measurable proof that’s useful for leadership, auditors and cyber-insurers.
What does a Microsoft 365 security assessment cost?
Published SMB pricing is tighter here than for most security work. A focused assessment of your Microsoft 365 tenant — your configuration measured against Microsoft’s security baselines and the CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark, with a prioritized fix list — typically runs $1,000 to $5,000 CAD depending on user count. Assessment plus hands-on hardening — conditional access, MFA, Intune device baselines, Defender and Purview policies — generally lands between $5,000 and $15,000 for a 20-to-50-user organization. Because most of the work uses licences you already own, that fee is usually the whole bill: no new tooling to buy. We review your environment first, then quote a fixed fee.
Does our Microsoft 365 data stay in Canada?
We configure your environment to align data residency and processing with Quebec’s Law 25 and PIPEDA expectations — multi-geo scoping, Azure Canada regions, and Purview labelling and retention. As a Canadian-owned firm, we build your Microsoft 365 with data sovereignty in mind.
Do you work with organizations outside Ottawa and Gatineau?
Yes. Microsoft 365 tenant work happens entirely remotely — no site visit required. We work with organizations across Canada, in English and French: the same assessment, the same hardening, the same reporting. The only difference is that meetings happen over Teams instead of across a table.
Your tenant also answers to US law — what that means: The CLOUD Act and Canadian Data
Close the doors left open
Let’s start with a review of your Microsoft 365 tenant and a baseline Secure Score — then a clear, prioritized plan.
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