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Tenant Hawk vs Microsoft Secure Score

Secure Score is Microsoft's built-in security posture metric. It is valuable for identity hardening, but it was never designed to answer "where are we wasting money" or "what breaks next month."

FeatureTenant HawkMicrosoft Secure Score
Identity security recommendations
License waste with dollar estimates
Expiring secrets and certificates
SharePoint / hygiene checks
Single cross-pillar health score
Free scan tier
Microsoft-native (no third party)

Tenant Hawk adds what Secure Score omits

  • License waste ranked by estimated dollars per month, not just security actions.
  • Expiring app secrets, SSO certificates, and domain renewals in one reliability view.
  • Hygiene signals: inactive users, empty groups, SharePoint sharing defaults.
  • One 0–100 tenant health score across security, cost, reliability, and hygiene.
  • Read-only scan in minutes with a prioritized fix list for lean IT teams and MSPs.

Secure Score is the better fit when…

Identity security recommendations in Entra ID

  • You only need Microsoft's own security improvement actions and you live entirely inside Entra admin center.
  • You already pay for Defender, Purview, and advanced compliance workloads tied to the Secure Score ecosystem.
  • Your organization mandates Microsoft-native tooling with no third-party assessors.

Use both if you can: Secure Score for Microsoft's security action queue, Tenant Hawk for the economic and operational gaps Microsoft does not score.

Try it on your tenant

Run a free health scan in under 5 minutes

Tenant Hawk connects read-only to Microsoft 365 and Entra, scores your tenant across security, cost, reliability, and hygiene, then gives you a prioritized fix-it list.

Read-only access · no credentials stored · no credit card

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