Accelerynt Security Platform FAQs

Read-only permissions scoped to the specific Microsoft services being validated. Nothing is written to your tenant. No agents are deployed to endpoints. Connection typically takes under ten minutes, and the permission set is documented and available for your security team to review before connection.

Your data lives on dedicated infrastructure with no shared data stores. No other customer can access your findings, drift history, or external attack surface data. Accelerynt manages the infrastructure, and our operational access is time limited, audit logged, and transparent.

No. The Accelerynt Security Platform operates on read-only permissions. It does not modify configurations, roll back settings, or execute scripts in your tenant. Remediation guidance is documented for your team to review and apply on their own terms. Tools that automate changes require write access, and that access stays open whether or not your team is reviewing each action. Read-only architecture closes that door.

Yes. Tenants you manage show up in one console, with findings and evidence kept separate by tenant. Service providers see their whole customer list in one view and can pull proof for any customer when asked. Companies that ended up with several tenants through growth or acquisition get the same single view, including tenants split between government and commercial clouds.

The platform includes a public API and prebuilt webhook integrations for Splunk, ServiceNow, Jira, PagerDuty, and Slack. Findings, drift alerts, compliance events, and remediation status can route directly into those tools. Custom integrations use signed webhooks for secure, verified delivery.

Your team connects the platform to your tenant through a guided setup process. No agents, no software installs, no firewall changes. Connection typically takes under ten minutes, and your first validation results are available the same day.

Findings include documented remediation guidance where applicable. Your team assigns findings to specific owners, tracks remediation status, and adds comments. The risk register carries the history so progress is visible across the team. All remediation is performed by your team in your environment. The platform documents the guidance and tracks the work.

Yes. The platform supports standard single sign-on protocols (SAML and OIDC), with automated user provisioning through SCIM. Your identity provider manages access, and user accounts stay in sync without manual administration.

Scans run on a scheduled, recurring cadence that your team configures. You can also trigger scans on demand when you need a current view. Between scans, drift detection monitors changes to critical controls and alerts your team when settings move from their approved state.

Configuration drift happens when a security setting moves away from its approved state. An administrator changes a conditional access policy, a new license assignment alters defaults, or Microsoft updates a service, and controls that were configured correctly no longer match the baseline your team agreed on. Most organizations discover drift during an audit or after an incident.

Each drifted setting is a gap between what your team approved and what your tenant enforces. When several settings drift at the same time, they can form a path an attacker follows to expand their access, reach higher-privilege accounts, or get to sensitive data. 2025 telemetry puts the median breakout time at 29 minutes, which means the gap between when an attacker lands and when they move is shorter than most remediation cycles.

Secure Score and Exposure Management come built in, and the Accelerynt Security Platform uses Microsoft’s scoring as one of its inputs. The platform adds what the license does not include: findings mapped to CISA SCuBA and ten other frameworks, one view across the tenants you manage, outside exposure connected to inside settings, and independent evidence an auditor will accept.

A posture assessment evaluates the administrative settings across your Microsoft 365 and Entra environment: who can sign in and how, which accounts have elevated access, how data is shared, how email is protected, and how your security tools are configured. The goal is to identify where current settings diverge from your approved baseline and where those gaps create risk.

The platform validates Copilot data protection readiness and identifies exposure paths where Copilot could surface sensitive data based on your current tenant configuration. If a Copilot rollout has stalled over oversharing concerns, the findings show your team what to fix so you can turn it on with confidence.

Multi-cloud CSPMs cover broad infrastructure. The Accelerynt Security Platform validates the administrative layer across Microsoft 365, Entra, Azure, AWS, and GCP, with findings validated against your approved baseline, drift tracking, and attack chains specific to your environment. The two serve different layers of your security stack.

No. Sentinel and other SIEMs detect and respond to threats in your environment. The Accelerynt Security Platform validates that the controls Sentinel depends on are configured and enforced as intended. They are complementary: structured posture data from the validation pass feeds into your Sentinel workspace as an additional signal, and attack chain analysis shows your SOC team how configuration gaps connect into the lateral movement paths an attacker would follow.

The platform validates the administrative settings across Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure DevOps, and GitHub. External attack surface scanning runs in parallel across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Findings from outside your perimeter are correlated with internal posture so your team sees how external exposure connects to inside settings.

DevOps pipelines and code repositories hold the keys to your deployment infrastructure. A misconfigured service connection, an overprivileged personal access token, or a missing branch protection rule can give an attacker a path from a code change to production access. These settings sit outside the scope of most posture tools, which means they often go unvalidated until something goes wrong.

The platform validates pipeline security, identity and access controls, repository governance, and supply-chain integrity across your Azure DevOps environment. Findings map to CIS DevOps Foundations and MCSB v3 DevOps Security controls.

The platform validates organization security, repository governance, CI/CD pipeline controls, identity and access management, and supply-chain protections across your GitHub environment. Findings map to CIS GitHub Foundations controls.

Yes. A workflow that accepts a pull request from a fork and authenticates via OIDC with a permissive trust policy can allow an external contributor to escalate into your cloud environment without stealing a credential. The platform models this as an attack chain and identifies the specific trust-policy and workflow configurations that make it possible.

Findings map across eleven frameworks: NIST CSF 2.0, NIST 800-53 r5, MITRE ATT&CK, CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmarks, CISA SCuBA, Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark v3, HIPAA, PCI-DSS v4.0, ISO 27001:2022, CIS DevOps Foundations, and CIS GitHub Foundations. Findings carry their framework mappings, so your compliance team can pull evidence by control without building a separate crosswalk.

Yes. Findings map to the CISA SCuBA secure configuration baselines as one of eleven supported frameworks, and the mapping runs across the tenants you manage. Federal agencies are required to assess their Microsoft 365 configurations against these baselines under BOD 25-01, and the same expectations are spreading to state agencies and defense contractors. The evidence is part of the same audit trail used for all eleven frameworks.

Those tools run useful checks, and if they are working for you, keep running them. The Accelerynt Security Platform turns those checks into a working program: a register that tracks findings over time, named ownership for fixes, change tracking, one view across your tenants, and evidence an auditor will accept. The checks start the job. The record after them is what the auditor asks to see.

Prioritized risk reports identify the specific accounts, policies, or roles involved. Attack chain visualizations show how findings connect across your environment. Chain Breaker™ ranks fixes by impact, and the What-If Simulator lets you test changes before you make them. Drift detection tracks changes with before and after values. A risk register carries finding history. Compliance findings map across eleven frameworks. Findings, drift history, and compliance mappings export as audit evidence.

Auditors ask for proof that controls stayed in their approved state between assessments. Drift detection tracks changes to monitored controls with before and after values. When a control moves, your team sees what changed and when, along with attribution data where available. That record answers the auditor’s question without manual evidence collection.

Yes. Findings carry their framework mapping and export as structured reports. Your compliance team can pull evidence by framework, by control, or by tenant. The risk register carries finding history, remediation status, and assigned ownership, which gives auditors the narrative they need alongside the technical data.

An attack chain is a sequence of configuration gaps that an attacker could follow to move from initial access to a high-value target. A single misconfigured conditional access policy may not be dangerous on its own, but combined with an overprivileged service account and a missing MFA requirement, it becomes a path to lateral movement and privilege escalation. The platform maps these combinations so your team can prioritize the fix that breaks the most chains.

Chain Breaker™ ranks fixes by breach path impact rather than isolated severity scores. Instead of working through a flat list of findings, your team sees which remediation actions close the most exploitable paths. The What-If Simulator lets you test a fix before applying it, so you can confirm the impact without making changes in your environment.

The breakout window is the time between an attacker’s initial access and their first lateral movement. 2025 telemetry puts the median at 29 minutes. That number matters because it defines how much time your team has to detect and contain before the attacker expands their access. When configuration gaps shorten that window further, the remediation timeline shrinks with it.

Yes. Attack chains can include external exposure as an entry point, connected to internal configuration gaps that become the path forward. Your team sees the connection between what is visible from outside and what is exploitable from inside.

The platform includes regression alerting. When a configuration change or new finding opens an attack chain that was previously resolved, your team receives a notification. Your team sees when resolved risk reappears, rather than discovering it in the next scheduled review.