How your Azure workloads authenticate: from access keys to federated managed identities
Access keys, app registrations, managed identities and federation compared. Where your Azure workloads sit on the identity ladder and how to move up.
Read morePractical guidance on the Microsoft security stack, from Defender for Endpoint and Defender for Office to securing Microsoft 365 Business Premium.
Most New Zealand organisations already own powerful security capability and never fully use it. If you run Microsoft 365 on Business Premium or E5, or you have added the E5 Security and Defender suite, you have access to an enterprise-grade security stack that many businesses pay for and leave half configured. Fenrir specialises in turning that licensing into real, working protection.
We go deep on the Microsoft security platform rather than spreading thin across dozens of vendors. That focus is deliberate. It means we know these tools at an operational level, not just from a certification slide, and we can design, deploy and run them properly rather than switching them on and hoping for the best.
Our work spans the full Microsoft security stack. Microsoft Defender for endpoint, identity, email and cloud apps gives you detection and response across your environment. Microsoft Sentinel provides the SIEM and automation layer that ties it together, so threats are detected and acted on quickly. Microsoft Entra ID secures identity, which is where most modern attacks begin. Microsoft Purview handles data protection and compliance, including the sensitivity labelling and data loss prevention that NZ organisations increasingly need. And across Microsoft 365 itself, we harden the configuration that day-to-day work depends on.
The value is not in any single product. It is in making them work together as a coherent, well-engineered whole, tuned to your environment and actually maintained over time.
A generalist provider treats Microsoft security as one line item among many. We treat it as a discipline. For an organisation that has committed to the Microsoft ecosystem, that depth is the difference between security tooling that sits idle and security tooling that genuinely reduces risk.
It also suits how New Zealand organisations actually operate. Many of our customers are Microsoft-first, with in-house IT teams who need a specialist partner to work alongside, not a black box that takes over. We are New Zealand based and in-house, never outsourced, so the people who design your Microsoft security are the same people who run it.
Wherever you are with your Microsoft security, we can help you move forward.
If you want to know where you stand, our Security Assessments identify the gaps and exposure in your current Microsoft 365 and Defender configuration, and show you what to prioritise.
If you need it designed and built properly, our Security Engineering & Architecture service deploys and hardens your Microsoft security controls so the capability you are paying for actually works.
And if you want it run for you, our Managed Services deliver continuous monitoring, detection and response built on Microsoft Sentinel and Defender.
Access keys, app registrations, managed identities and federation compared. Where your Azure workloads sit on the identity ladder and how to move up.
Read moreEvery ASR rule, with the deployment guidance we use across our MDR customers. Which rules to enable first, what breaks, and how to check before you commit.
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Read moreSecuring Your Business Our last blog covered the features within the Microsoft Business premium license, from here we are taking more of an in-depth look at Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Defender for Endpoint is on…
Read moreWelcome to the first post of our blog! Across New Zealand there are various bundles of licensing used, from Business Basic all the way through to M365 E5. A pricing sweet spot for security features is the Business Pre…
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