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What are the minimum license need for the office 365 secure score points
Hi as i can see in my securescore.office.com platform the points i need to implement to advance my secure score. I can not see what are the minimum licensing needed for certain points.
I try to create a list of all the required license that i need for some secure score points and which license i need to upgrade to make my office 365 secure score go higher ?
An overview is not that easy as there are many subscriptions to chose from. It depends on your size, organisation, industry even ... In short however :
Office 365 subscriptions = provide the usage rights of the products and some security features.
EM+S subscriptions = are purely focused on security services.
Windows subscriptions = allow the installation of windows editions + Windows Defender ATP
M365 subscriptions = combine all three types I mentioned above. These are the Rolls Royce versions.
Some services can be added as standalone products as well. But again it all depends on:
- Company or industry (education, government, commercial, ...)
- Contract type (CSP, EA, open license, ...)
- Size (smaller then 300 users or bigger)
What you can do however, is start a free trial with some of those highest subscriptions. Then you have everything enabled during the trial period. Some trials are valid for 90 days and 50 users, others are 30 days and 25 users. Just look for trial with combination of the desired type of subscription.
That's how I do it for testing and evaluation.
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Simply look at the documentation for the corresponding feature. Most of those will require the EMS suite, some will require E5, or even standalone add-on licenses.
Tried to find this in the following documentations , and blogs
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/securitycompliance/office-365-secure-score
neither of the above gives me a complete list of all the score points availableThe following blog does and even with what license and add ons i need for certail secure points.
Not for all of them unfortunately , that's why i tried to ask it here- https://justaucguy.wordpress.com/2018/01/10/office-365-secure-score-practical-in-depth-analysis/
- https://justaucguy.wordpress.com/2018/10/24/microsoft-secure-score-new-task-practical-analysis/
The secure score items are depending on the subscription you actively have on your tenant. So the score is what you have versus what you can achieve. If you have minimum subscriptions, the list and the maximum score will be much lower.
Also the aggressiveness of security is added in the meantime. If you leave it on balanced the maximum score will be lower compare to aggressive as well.
Administering secure score doesn't need a subscription, but it does require you to be a global administrator with that user.
Hope this helps.
