Co-Managed security for SMBs

ANS Co-Managed Security is an end-to-end, governance-led, Microsoft-native security service designed to help SMB organisations securely adopt, operate, and extend their use of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Defender, and the wider Microsoft security ecosystem. Through a co-managed operating model, ANS provides specialist expertise, operational support, and practical security guidance to help strengthen security posture, reduce risk, and support ongoing Microsoft cloud adoption without the need to build a full internal security function.

By combining preventative security, governance, compliance, continuous monitoring, threat protection, and defensive response capabilities, ANS helps SMBs address skills and resource gaps, improve day-to-day security operations, and get more value from their Microsoft investments. Whether customers are establishing foundational cloud security controls or enhancing existing capabilities, ANS works alongside internal teams to improve resilience, support secure innovation, and help make security part of everyday operations.

Who Is It For? • Microsoft-centric organisations - SMBs using Microsoft 365, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Purview, Identity, Azure, and endpoint services as core platforms. • Security-conscious teams - Organisations looking to reduce risk from identity compromise, misconfiguration, and policy drift. • Capacity-constrained IT and security teams - Teams that need expert security support without the overhead of running a full SOC. • AI-ready organisations - Businesses preparing for or actively adopting Microsoft Copilot, AI agents, and intelligent automation. • Growing and transforming SMBs - Organisations adopting or expanding their use of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft cloud technologies that need practical security, governance, and operational expertise without enterprise-level overhead.

Key Features & Capabilities

• Secure by Design, Secure by Default - Robust identity protection, policy alignment, and Microsoft-native controls are embedded throughout your estate, helping make security part of everyday operations. • Continuous Preventative Security - Identify misconfigurations, policy drift, exposure signals, and control gaps across your Microsoft estate, reducing risk before it becomes an incident. • Intelligent Governance & Change Control - Consistent, policy-led change management reduces risk and maintains configuration integrity across your environments. • Expert Guidance & Architectural Assurance - Access Microsoft-certified specialists who provide configuration validation, security architecture guidance, and Microsoft cloud security best practices to help organisations deploy, optimise, and securely expand their Microsoft environments. • Operational Efficiency & Shared Responsibility - Transfer agreed security tasks to ANS, freeing internal teams for strategic focus. • Defensive Security - Strengthen your ability to detect, triage, contain, and respond to threats through continuous monitoring, clear escalation routes, and access to ANS defensive security capabilities. • Continuous Service Evolution - Improve resilience over time through ongoing reporting, maturity reviews, optimisation, and expert guidance aligned to changing threats, Microsoft innovation, and SMB business priorities.

Business Outcomes

• Cyber resilience, without compromise: Bring preventative and defensive security together to reduce the likelihood of incidents and improve your ability to detect, respond, contain, and recover when threats emerge.

• Compliance, without complexity: Stay ahead of evolving standards with centralised policy management, automated evidence collection, and audit-ready reporting.

• Minimise risk, from brand impact to finances: Proactive controls and continuous oversight reduce the likelihood of breaches, helping protect your reputation and reducing the chance of costly operational disruption.

• Security expertise, without the resource strain: Augment your in-house security capabilities with specialist advisory, governance frameworks, and targeted expertise, filling critical skill gaps and easing operational workload.

• Threat detection, without disruption: Strengthen defensive security with continuous monitoring, clear triage, rapid escalation, and response capabilities that help minimise business impact when threats occur.