Before individual services, a few tenant-wide settings, audit logging, admin roles and security defaults, set the baseline everything else builds on.
Why it matters
Tenant-level choices quietly affect every user. Getting the baseline right once saves an organisation from chasing the same misconfiguration across many services later.
How Conformance helps
- Turn on unified audit logging from day one
- Limit global administrators to a small, named set
- Establish break-glass emergency access accounts
- Apply security baselines rather than leaving defaults
- Document the tenant configuration for assessment
How Conformance helps
Conformance validates this strategy from the evidence your organisation already produces, shows your maturity level, and tells you the next step to raise it.