We often are asked why an organisation would use Bluedog’s M365 Service on top of the subscription they pay to Microsoft, especially the additional Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) licence.

So, let’s look at a comparison with MS Licence:

The main difference is that the bluedog service is a Managed Service. This means that we are constantly monitoring your M365 tenancy, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year on your behalf. We have physical eyes on screens. If something unusual happens – regardless of the time, day or night – on your M365 tenancy our skilled SOC staff are straight on the case.

Because we use advanced AI, ML and – unlike ATP – human intervention, we don’t create hundreds of ‘false positive’ alerts that waste your time, create lots of “noise” and mask the really important alerts; we are able to filter down to just the most important ones.

Of course, Microsoft provides some excellent dashboards and information, but it’s a DIY solution, this means you are responsible for checking and monitoring your tenancy. It means that for you to provide the same level of care and oversight, you’d have to employ many skilled staff members just to monitor your tenancy 24/7/365.

Let’s look at just one of many case studies from one of our resellers which is a perfect example:

Steve – *** Systems      

It was not possible to have security activity monitoring on remote locations for users. Being able to provide information on compromised accounts instantly is important. Without bluedog services this would not be possible to achieve.