Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus and Microsoft 365

What Cyber Essentials is

Cyber Essentials is the UK government-backed baseline certification, and a common requirement in public-sector and supply-chain contracts. Its five controls include multi-factor authentication, secure configuration, and access control, which map directly to Microsoft 365 and Entra ID settings.

How Siemserva maps to Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials asks for strong identity, access control, and monitoring. Siemserva evidences those areas with the checks below, each ranked by Severity and checked against your own tenant:

• Multi-factor authentication (42 checks)

  Auth User Not MFA RegisteredAuth Microsoft Authenticator Authentication Method In Use But Not Allowed By UserAuth Password Authentication Method In Use But Not Allowed By Senserva Security ManagerAuth Passwordless Microsoft Authenticator Authentication Method In Use But Not Allowed By UserAuth Require Passwordless But Its Not Used By UserAuth Software Oath Authentication Method In Use But Not Allowed By User

• Conditional Access (60 checks)

  Conditional Access Admin Portal Missing MFAConditional Access Break Glass Account Covered By PolicyConditional Access Group Critical Coverage GapConditional Access MFA Policy BypassedConditional Access User Critical Coverage GapConditional Access Block Legacy Exchange Active Sync Not Found

• Identity and access management (60 checks)

  At Risk With High RiskUser Break Glass Account DisabledUser Break Glass Account Is Not Highly PrivilegedUser Break Glass Account Last Password ChangeUser Break Glass User Not EnabledUser High Risk User

• Device compliance (220 checks)

  Intune Device Missing KEV PatchIntune Device Vulnerability KEVIntune Policy Autopatch CVE Gap KEVDevice Endpoint Detection And ResponseDevice Has Outdated Android Operating SystemDevice Has Outdated IOS Operating System

See every check with its Severity and remediation in the checks catalog, or the per-control detail in the control reference.

Evidence Cyber Essentials in your own Microsoft 365

Siemserva by Senserva runs the identity, access, privileged-access, and logging checks above, and 650+ others, against your own tenant: it shows where you meet or miss each requirement, ranks the gaps by Severity, and produces audit-ready evidence and validated fixes to close them.