Emergency Tenant for Microsoft 365 - Remains Operational Even After an Attack
What the Emergency Tenant is intended for
Can you answer these 4 questions in an emergency?
Crisis Communication
How does your crisis response team and management communicate securely if Exchange, Microsoft Teams, or Entra ID are compromised?
Secure Admin Access
Where and how do your administrators log in if the primary production tenant is no longer considered trustworthy?
Independent recovery
How do you restore identities, access, and control—without any technical dependencies on the already compromised system?
Decision-making ability
Who makes decisions in an emergency, and on what secure, technical basis are these decisions implemented?
Scope of Services
What the Azure Emergency Tenant Does
Decoupled emergency environment
A separate Azure/Entra tenant with no technical dependencies on production operations. No lateral access is possible from compromised environments.
Emergency Communication
Immediately available, secure communication tools (e.g., Teams/Exchange) for specific roles such as the crisis management team, IT, security, and management.
Restoring Control
Targeted restoration of identities and directory services as a clean starting point for a controlled recovery free of legacy issues.
Zero-Trust Architecture
Consistent implementation of zero-trust access models using native Microsoft security and identity features.
Regular emergency tests
Monthly fire drills and recovery tests validate data consistency and processes, and provide training for all involved roles.
Drastically reduced RTO (target)
Significantly reduces the time required to resume operations. Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) for critical control functions are reduced from days to hours.
Companies that trust us:
Whitepaper
OPERATIONAL CAPABILITY IN AN EMERGENCY INSTEAD OF A BACKUP PLAN.
Why traditional emergency plans fail in a crisis and how an Azure Emergency Tenant ensures operational continuity even if the production tenant is compromised. For CISOs and IT managers with complex Microsoft 365 infrastructures.
Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ
Do all administrators need a PAW?
Many organizations face the challenge of having to provide reliable assessments of their security posture on short notice. A targeted evaluation of existing measures helps identify relevant gaps and address them as a priority.
Is Managed Red Tenant a replacement for our identity strategy?
In addition to documented processes, the primary focus is on determining whether measures are effective in practice. What matters most is their actual implementation within the existing IT environment.
Is this just a one-time hardening project?
A realistic assessment is always made in the context of existing systems and risks—not based on abstract best practices.
Does that make sense even if there isn't any immediate pressure right now?
First and foremost, it is important to assess the situation objectively: What actually happened, which systems are affected, and what specific risks exist?
Classify emergency readiness
The process does not begin with the direct purchase of a product, but rather with a structured assessment: What dependencies exist? Which functions must be available first? Where are there gaps?