Ben Perkins

About Ben Perkins

I am a Sr Cloud Solution Architect for Microsoft, specializing in security and…

Experience

1. Sr Cloud Solution Architect

   Microsoft

   Jul 2019 — Present

   SME on M365 Security and Compliance and Endpoint Management. Responsible for Proactive Support, Technical Education, Environment Analysis and Implementation Assistance for our Health and Life Sciences customers to ensure their success in the Microsoft 365 environment. Microsoft Purview Compliance. Highly Skilled in Education, Configuration, Implementation, Deployment and Assessment of features contained within the portal including DLP, Sensitivity Labels, Retention Policies and Labels, Information Risk Management Tools and more. Microsoft Defender. Highly Skilled in Education, Configuration, Implementation, Deployment and Assessment of features in the portal including OOB email hygiene, Defender for Office 365 with Safe Links, Safe Attachments and Impersonation Protection. Also some Experience with Defender for Identity, Defender for Cloud Apps and Defender for Endpoint. Microsoft Endpoint Management. Skilled in Education, Configuration and Deployment of MDM and MAM policies including Autopilot, Apps, Configuration and Compliance policies, APPs APCs and policy sets. Security Assessments. Delivered over 30 Enterprise Office 365 Security Assessments reviewing configuration, policies and procedures for Healthcare Enterprise customers. Follow up with Remediation planning and assistance with Implementation in technologies such as Azure AD identity and Access Management, Email hygiene and mail flow, Sender Authentication, Zero Trust, Device Management, External/Guest Access and Sharing including SharePoint/OneDrive and Teams. Azure AD Conditional Access. Skilled in Policy configuration and Implementation. Conditions, Authentication Context, Controls and Session capabilities including blocking of Basic Auth, enforcing MFA, Device trust, Location based policies and more. Microsoft Teams. Well versed in Teams architecture and Governance, Security and Compliance of Teams and Microsoft 365 Group management capabilities.