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Track your Microsoft Secure Score history and meet goals |
Gain insights into activity that has affected your Microsoft Secure Score. Discover trends and set goals. |
defender-xdr |
deploy |
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siosulli |
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02/16/2021 |
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Microsoft Secure Score is a measurement of an organization's security posture, with a higher number indicating more recommended actions taken. It can be found at https://security.microsoft.com/securescore in the Microsoft Defender portal.
View a graph of your organization's score over time in the History tab.
Below the graph is a list of all the actions taken in the selected time range and their attributes, such as resulting points and category. You can customize a date range and filter by category.
:::image type="content" source="/defender/media/secure-score/secure-score-history-activity.png" alt-text="An example of the page that describes the activity history in the Microsoft Defender portal" lightbox="/defender/media/secure-score/secure-score-history-activity.png":::
If you select the recommended action associated with an activity, the full recommended action flyout will appear.
To view all history for that specific recommended action, select the history link in the flyout.
:::image type="content" source="/defender/media/secure-score/secure-score-history-flyout.png" alt-text="The History pane regarding recommended action in the Microsoft Defender portal" lightbox="/defender/media/secure-score/secure-score-history-flyout.png":::
In the Metrics & trends tab, there are several graphs and charts to give you more visibility into trends and set goals. You can set the date range for the whole page of visualizations. The visualizations include:
- Your Secure Score zone - Customized based on your organization's goals and definitions of good, okay, and bad score ranges.
- Regression trend - A timeline of points that have regressed because of configuration, user, or device changes.
- Comparison trend - How your organization's Secure Score compares to others' over time. This view can include lines representing the score average of organizations with similar seat count and a custom comparison view that you can set.
- Risk acceptance trend - Timeline of recommended actions marked as "risk accepted."
- Score changes - The number of points achieved, points regressed, and changes to your score in the specified date range.
There are two places to see how your score compares to organizations that are similar to yours.
The comparison bar chart is available on the Overview tab. Hover over the chart to view the score and score opportunity.
:::image type="content" source="/defender/media/secure-score/secure-score-comparison-bar.png" alt-text="An example of the bar graph of similar organization's scores in the Microsoft Defender portal" lightbox="/defender/media/secure-score/secure-score-comparison-bar.png":::
The comparison data is anonymized so we don't know exactly which others tenants are in the mix.
In the Metrics & trends tab, view how your organization's Secure Score compares to others' over time.
:::image type="content" source="/defender/media/secure-score/secure-score-comparison-trend.png" alt-text="An example of a line graph of similar organization's scores over time in the Microsoft Defender portal" lightbox="/defender/media/secure-score/secure-score-comparison-trend.png":::
If you have any issues, let us know by posting in the Security, Privacy & Compliance community. We're monitoring the community and will provide help.