SeQontrol and Microsoft's native tooling

When native is enough

One tenant, one administrator, no external reporting obligation and no Copilot rollout pending: Secure Score plus the native reports will tell you most of what you need, and they cost nothing extra. Start there. A tool you already own and will actually check beats one you buy and ignore.

The four gaps

• One number, not a control. Secure Score gives a figure per tenant. It does not tell an auditor which control held, or produce evidence that it held over a period.
• Per workload, per tenant. Sharing sits in one report, identity in another, mail flow in a third, each inside one tenant. For a provider that means opening every client in turn: Microsoft 365 Lighthouse rolls up some identity and device signals, but not sharing and not control evidence. What a provider gets instead.
• No outside-in view. Nothing in a Microsoft 365 licence scans your public-facing web and domain systems, which is where a good deal of exposure actually lives — that is WebScan, and running it costs nothing.
• Reporting, not remediation, and no memory. Native reports show a state. They do not stage a fix with a grace window and an undo, and they do not keep a tamper-evident record of what changed and who approved it.

The overlap

Microsoft improves this area constantly, and some of what SeQontrol does today will be native eventually. The parts we expect to keep mattering are the ones native tooling is structurally unlikely to build: cross-tenant fleet economics, and turning a security finding into portable compliance evidence.

We license per product, so if Microsoft ships something that replaces a piece of this, you are free to stop paying for that piece.