MCSB ES-5: Endpoint Security
5 Senserva Microsoft 365 security checks provide evidence for Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark control ES-5 (Endpoint Security). Each is checked against your tenant, ranked by Severity, with validated remediation.
What MCSB ES-5 covers
The Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark is Microsoft's own security baseline for Azure and Microsoft 365, organized into control domains. ES-5 sits in the Endpoint Security domain. Senserva evidences it with the 5 checks below, so you can see, per tenant, whether the control is actually met rather than assumed.
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The 5 checks that evidence MCSB ES-5
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| Senserva check | Severity | What it verifies |
|---|---|---|
| Intune Policy App Control Audit Mode | High | Application Control is in audit mode, not enforcing blocks |
| Intune Policy App Control Build Options | High | Application Control policy build options are not configured |
| Intune Policy App Control Property Not Found | Medium | Expected Application Control property was not found in the Intune policy configuration |
| Intune Policy App Control Trust Apps From Managed Installer | Medium | Managed Installer trust is not enabled in Application Control policy |
| Intune Policy App Control Trust Apps With Good Reputation | Medium | Intelligent Security Graph (ISG) reputation trust is not enabled in Application Control policy |
Also evidences
The same checks provide evidence for these frameworks, so one fix counts across your obligations:
Evidence this control in your own Microsoft 365
This page maps Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark control ES-5 (Endpoint Security) to the checks that prove it. Siemserva by Senserva runs those checks, and 650+ others, against your own tenant: it shows exactly where this control is met or failing, ranks the gaps by Severity, and produces the audit-ready evidence and validated fixes to close them.
Built for the people who own this outcome: security and IT teams closing gaps, auditors and compliance teams gathering evidence, and MSPs and MSSPs running it across every client tenant.
Every MCSB control and the checks that evidence it: the control reference. The full benchmark crosswalk: MCSB for Microsoft 365.
