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CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark

CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark checks, every day.

Mito's assessment engine includes checks based on the CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark, alongside CISA ScuBA, EIDSCA and ORCA, so every finding traces back to published guidance.

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CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark

What Mito shows for the CIS benchmark.

  • Checks are mapped to CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark v7.0.0: 104 of its 160 recommendations have a Mito check.
  • The customer portal shows each mapped recommendation as passed or failed, and you can filter findings by framework.
  • Each failed check is ranked by severity and links to guidance on how to fix it.
  • Because the assessment runs daily, you see when a recommendation that passed yesterday fails today.

Mito provides evidence for CIS recommendations that can be checked from tenant configuration. It does not certify compliance: frameworks also need non-technical controls such as policies, processes and training. How framework mapping works

What we check

400+ checks across the Microsoft 365 services you rely on.

Mito's assessment engine is based on open-source checks and widely recognised security baselines, so every finding traces back to published guidance.

  • Entra ID

    Identity, MFA, Conditional Access, privileged roles and app consent.

  • Exchange Online

    Email protection, anti-phishing, anti-spam and external forwarding.

  • Microsoft Defender

    Defender for Office 365 policies and Defender for Endpoint settings.

  • Intune

    Device compliance and management settings.

  • Teams

    External access, guest access and meeting settings.

  • Purview

    Audit logging and data loss prevention.

Baselines

  • CIS Microsoft 365 FoundationsBenchmark
  • CISA ScuBASecure Cloud Business Applications
  • EIDSCAEntra ID Security Config Analyzer
  • ORCAOffice 365 Recommended Configuration Analyzer
  • NIST 800-53Control mappings
  • ISO/IEC 27001:2022Annex A evidence mapping
  • UAE IA v1.1 (formerly NESA)Evidence mapping

Coming soon

  • Dubai ISRFramework mapping Coming soon
  • ADHICSFramework mapping Coming soon

How it works

Three steps, then it runs itself.

  1. Connect, read-only

    A Global Admin runs one script (or follows the manual steps) to create a read-only app registration in your tenant, then sends us four values. It takes about ten minutes.

  2. Daily assessment in the UAE

    Every day, Mito assesses your tenant from Microsoft Azure UAE North, in an environment isolated to your organisation.

  3. Findings and drift

    See failures ranked by severity with remediation guidance, the full HTML report, your history, and what is newly failing or fixed since the last run.

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