When clients use Microsoft 365 as their collaboration suite, we need visibility into how the environment is set up and how it is being used to evaluate compliance to standards. This includes users, groups, domains, devices, admin roles, login activity, file metadata, policies, licenses, security incidents, and service health.
These permissions are needed because security and compliance reviews require more than a narrow view of one user account. We need organization-wide visibility into identities, devices, policies, logs, files, and admin settings.
For example:
• User and group permissions help identify who has access.
• Role permissions help identify who has administrative power.
• Authentication permissions help identify whether accounts are protected.
• Device permissions help identify whether endpoints are managed.
• Audit permissions help identify what happened and when.
• Policy permissions help identify whether controls are configured correctly.
• File and site permissions help identify where sensitive information may be exposed.
• License permissions help identify whether security features are available to users.
• Service health permissions help explain operational issues outside the client's direct control.
Without these permissions, the assessment would be incomplete. We might miss unmanaged accounts, weak authentication, risky sharing, policy gaps, unprotected devices, or security incidents.
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