What is security drift?
Security drift, also called configuration drift in Microsoft 365, is the gradual gap that opens between how your environment was securely configured and how it is actually set today. When it affects security policies, such as Conditional Access, Intune compliance, or Defender rules, it is often called Microsoft 365 policy drift. Across Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune, Defender, and Sentinel, settings change constantly through admin edits, emergency fixes, new projects, and Microsoft updating its own defaults. Each change is small, but together they pull you off your secure baseline, quietly reopening risk and breaking compliance, usually without anyone noticing until an audit or an incident. Senserva Drift Manager exists to catch that security drift the moment it happens.
Configuration drift is a silent threat
Security settings change constantly: updates, admin edits, emergency fixes. Most organizations take more than 180 days to even detect it.
Comprehensive Microsoft security coverage
Drift Manager monitors configuration across every major Microsoft security product, cloud, on-premises, and hybrid.
- Entra ID: identity, Conditional Access, PIM, authentication methods, and guest policies.
- Intune: compliance policies, device configurations, app protection, and enrollment restrictions.
- Defender: security policies, alert rules, auto-provisioning, and regulatory compliance settings.
- Exchange Online Protection: anti-phishing, anti-spam, Safe Links, Safe Attachments, and impersonation protection.
- Sentinel: analytics rules, automation playbooks, data connectors, workspace settings, and the scripts and modules used in your workspaces.
Real-time drift detection
Works with your existing ticketing
Drift Manager does not change your tenant for you. It detects drift and generates a detailed ticket automatically, drift analysis, impact assessment, the affected policy, the tenant, and the full configuration diff, then routes it into your workflow. You stay in control of every response: validate the fix, route for approval, or hand it to your team.
Native integration with ServiceNow, ConnectWise, Zendesk, Freshdesk, Autotask, and Datto PSA.
Enterprise and MSP ready
- Unlimited users. No per-seat licensing. Everyone on your team gets access.
- Your data stays in your tenant. Processing happens inside your Azure environment. No data is sent to external servers.
- Geo-redundant storage. Azure SQL secured with Microsoft Entra ID authentication.
- Cyber insurance compliance. Prove you maintained the controls you disclosed in your application.
- Azure Marketplace deployment. Install from the Marketplace and upgrade from free to premium without reinstalling.
- Patented technology. U.S. Patent No. 12407706, a rules-based configuration and analysis engine.
Trusted by Microsoft, proven in the field
Senserva is a Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA) member and a 2024 Microsoft Security Excellence Awards finalist. Drift Manager is approved by the Microsoft Entra ID, Intune, and Sentinel product teams, with deep integration across the Microsoft security stack.
Drift Manager and Siemserva
Senserva builds two complementary products. Drift Manager is the Azure-hosted, continuous, multi-tenant service that detects configuration drift against your gold standard and drives remediation through your ticketing. Siemserva is the on-premises scanner that audits Microsoft 365, Intune, and Entra ID, ranks CVEs and patches, and produces validated, AI-assisted fixes you apply. Teams should run both. Siemserva's own configuration drift management covers the on-premises side.
Stop drift before it becomes a breach
See what has drifted across your Microsoft environment. Schedule a demo to see Drift Manager on your own tenants.
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