Oscar Monge: Engage with Experts Who Can Help Optimize Your Deployment

Whenever you adopt any new technology in an organization, you should first go through the product documentation and become familiar with all the features available to you. The organization needs to understand the benefits and constraints of each license type—and not just the money. It’s about aligning the features you require with your organization’s needs in a way that gets you the best return on your investment. That approach is important for successful adoption of the technology within the organization.

Whether you work with in-house subject matter experts or external consultants, matching the technology to your requirements should be done by someone who can act as an evangelist within the organization. This person does not have to be someone who thinks that a particular product
is the best on the market. Rather, this person should be someone who can review and understand the documentation, understand how to apply the technology to meet the organization’s goals, and help roll out the technology in an optimized manner.

Microsoft 365 Defender is a suite of individually licensed products, and you have choices about which parts of the suite to implement. At the end of the day, product selection must align to the needs of the business, which means aligning to the organization’s risk appetite, mid- and long-term security strategies, and technical capabilities.