CoreView helps UK public sector organisations strengthen cyber resilience and simplify operations across Microsoft 365 and Entra. As cloud adoption accelerates and services become more digital-by-default, Microsoft 365 has become central to how departments, agencies, NHS bodies, councils and education institutions collaborate and deliver services. That dependence also introduces risk: complex, fast-changing configurations; privileged access that is hard to govern; and limited ability to evidence that controls are consistently implemented, monitored and recoverable.

CoreView addresses these challenges with an outcome-focused approach aligned to the UK’s Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF). CAF is assessed using Indicators of Good Practice (IGPs) rather than a tick-box checklist. CoreView helps teams produce evidence that security and governance controls are in place, enforced over time, and recoverable—across Microsoft 365 and Entra, including multi-tenant and hybrid estates

Helping public sector teams evidence CAF outcomes in Microsoft 365 and Entra

CAF places strong emphasis on governance, risk management, secure configuration, monitoring and recoverability. CoreView supports these outcomes by giving IT, security and governance teams visibility into the Microsoft 365 “control plane” (the configuration, permissions and administrative activity that define security posture), and the ability to continuously assess and remediate drift.

Objective A: Managing Security Risk

CoreView supports informed governance by providing evidence-ready reporting across tenants and workloads to enable timely reporting to senior leadership—useful in demonstrating that governance decisions are based on accurate, current information. It also supports clearer accountability through delegated administration models, including granular role-based access control and segmentation, helping show responsibilities are defined and workable in practice.

For risk management, CoreView provides misconfiguration visibility and prioritisation to identify, analyse and manage security risks at scale in Microsoft 365 and Entra. It supports baseline benchmarking—such as CIS/ASD-aligned baselines—and continuous assessment, enabling a repeatable risk process rather than one-off reviews. Assurance is strengthened through drift detection and control monitoring, providing evidence that protections remain effective over time. CoreView also supports asset management through inventory-style visibility and reporting across Microsoft 365 objects and configurations, helping maintain an up-to-date understanding of key assets and dependencies in the cloud control plane. For supply chain oversight, it provides visibility of third-party access and privileged relationships (e.g., administrative permissions and external access patterns), helping reduce blind spots and support supplier risk oversight in the M365 context.

Objective B: Protecting Against Cyber Attack

CoreView helps teams turn standards into measurable, repeatable configurations via policy packs and baseline enforcement, reducing reliance on manual processes. Ongoing compliance monitoring helps identify where practice diverges from policy—supporting evidence that policies are implemented and not routinely bypassed. In identity and access control, CoreView enables least-privilege administration at scale through granular delegation and segmentation (Virtual Tenants), and supports privileged access oversight through reporting on role assignments and permissions to demonstrate review and governance of privileged users.

For data security, CoreView provides controls insight and governance reporting around sharing, access and configuration settings that affect how data is protected in Microsoft 365—supporting evidence for “understanding data” and helping reduce uncontrolled exposure. For system security, it supports secure configuration baselines, configuration drift detection, and change visibility so security-impacting configuration changes can be identified and investigated.

CAF explicitly calls out the need for secured, accessible backups including configuration information. CoreView supports this requirement with tenant configuration backup and restore (“rewind”), helping recovery from major incidents such as ransomware or destructive change. While CoreView is not a training platform, it can support a healthier security culture by reducing reliance on individuals remembering complex steps, and by making responsibilities and escalation clearer through governed workflows and delegation.

Objective C: Detecting Cyber Security Events

CoreView strengthens monitoring of the Microsoft 365 control plane by providing visibility into configuration state and change, helping teams spot risky drift and suspicious administrative activity that traditional endpoint or network tooling can miss. While not a full threat hunting SIEM, CoreView supports hypothesis-led investigations by enabling teams to interrogate configuration and permission state across tenants—for example, “what changed, when, and who changed it?”

Objective D: Minimising the Impact of Incidents

CoreView supports CAF-aligned response and recovery by enabling rapid restoration of tenant configuration state after an incident, and providing timely information to support decision-making. Change history and reporting also support lessons learned and post-incident analysis, helping teams identify contributing configuration factors and prevent recurrence.

Designed for the realities of UK public sector Microsoft 365 estates

UK public sector environments often include multiple organisations, departments or business units, shared service models, and hybrid identity. CoreView helps standardise governance while enabling safe delegation. It provides the visibility and evidence needed for audits and assurance, and supports teams in demonstrating that security controls are continuously enforced—not only documented.

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CoreView supports CAF-aligned cyber resilience for Microsoft 365 and Entra with evidence-ready reporting, baseline enforcement, drift detection, privileged access oversight, control-plane monitoring, and configuration backup and restore. More information: www.coreview.com.