M365 for Banks
A compliant Microsoft 365 baseline for financial institutions.
A hardened, examiner-ready Microsoft 365 configuration — security, compliance, retention and collaboration baselines purpose-built for community and regional banks operating under strict regulatory obligations.
Collaboration that satisfies examiners
Out-of-the-box Microsoft 365 isn't configured for banking. We apply a hardened baseline mapped to the controls your examiners expect.
Default configurations
Standard M365 settings leave gaps against banking regulatory expectations.
Retention & records
Email and document retention isn't aligned to compliance requirements.
Oversharing risk
Sensitive financial data is shared without controls or labeling.
Examiner readiness
Producing evidence and reports for examiners is manual and slow.
A proven, four-phase program
Assess
Week 1- Review current M365 configuration & licensing
- Map requirements to banking regulations
- Assess identity, retention and sharing posture
- Identify gaps and quick wins
- Current-state assessment
- Requirements-to-controls mapping
- Prioritized gap list
Configure
Weeks 2–3- Apply security & identity baselines
- Configure retention, records & eDiscovery
- Set up sensitivity labels & DLP
- Harden Teams, SharePoint & sharing
- Security & compliance baseline applied
- Retention & eDiscovery configured
- Labeling & DLP live
Pilot
Weeks 4–5- Pilot baselines with a representative group
- Validate examiner-evidence reporting
- Tune policies from pilot feedback
- Prepare rollout and training
- Validated pilot
- Evidence/report templates
- Rollout & training plan
Deploy
Weeks 6–8- Roll baselines out org-wide
- Enable monitoring and reporting
- Train admins and compliance staff
- Examiner-ready M365 estate
- Admin & compliance runbooks
- 100% knowledge transfer
Clear boundaries, set up front
Out of scope
- ✕ Core banking system integration
- ✕ Net-new application development
- ✕ Ongoing managed compliance operations
- ✕ Non-Microsoft collaboration platforms
Key assumptions
- ✓ Microsoft 365 E3/E5 (or equivalent) licensing
- ✓ Admin access provided
- ✓ Compliance SMEs available
- ✓ Pilot users available
Get examiner-ready on Microsoft 365
Book a 30-minute intro call and we'll scope the banking baseline to your institution.