Security Hardening Services

Tough love for your tech stack

Our security hardening service is like a deep clean for your infrastructure. We’ll streamline what you actually use and shut down what you don’t.

By reducing unnecessary services and tightening controls across systems, we help you shrink your attack surface and stick to your cyber strategy. Whether you’re responsible for business-critical apps or community-facing services, we assess, audit, harden, and reinforce.

From mailbox rule protection to Microsoft Secure Score improvements, it’s about making practical changes that give you more confidence and less to worry about.

At Nasstar, our cyber security hardening services combine hands-on configuration work with reference frameworks like the CIS Benchmarks, NCSC guidance, and Microsoft Secure Score. The result is a measurably smaller attack surface, a clearer audit trail, and an environment that holds up to scrutiny, from internal stakeholders, external auditors, and the cyber attackers actively looking for the weakest link.

What are security hardening services?

Security hardening services are structured engagements that reduce the attack surface of your IT estate. That can mean system hardening across Windows, Linux, and macOS endpoints; server hardening across on-premise and cloud workloads; network hardening on firewalls, routers, and switches; application hardening for the software your business depends on; and platform hardening across Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.

Comprehensive cyber security hardening services delivered as one-off engagements or as part of an ongoing hardening programme, scoped to your estate and risk profile.

What our security hardening services cover

System hardening and operating system hardening

System hardening across your servers, desktops, and laptops. Includes Windows hardening, Linux hardening, and macOS hardening, closing unnecessary ports, removing legacy services, enforcing baseline configurations, and bringing your operating system hardening in line with CIS Benchmarks or your own internal standards.

Server hardening services

Server hardening services covering on-premise, hosted, and cloud workloads. We secure the OS, the application layer, and the network configuration, with secure configuration baselines you can prove to auditors and roll forward as your estate grows.

Network hardening

Network hardening across firewalls, switches, routers, VPNs, and SD-WAN. Includes rule set reviews, default credential removal, secure configuration of network services, and segmentation to limit blast radius if attackers do gain a foothold.

Application hardening

Application hardening for line-of-business systems, web applications, and APIs. We work with your development teams to bake security into builds - from secure configuration management and dependency hardening to application-level controls that complement your wider security stack.

Microsoft 365 and Office 365 hardening

Microsoft 365 hardening (also known as M365 hardening or Office 365 hardening) for your email, collaboration, and identity estate. Includes mailbox rule protection, conditional access tuning, MFA enforcement, anti-phishing configuration, and improvements aligned to your Microsoft Secure Score.

Active Directory and identity hardening

Active Directory hardening, Entra ID hardening, and privileged access management. We reduce the standing privilege in your environment, strengthen authentication, and harden the tier-0 assets attackers prize most.

Attack surface reduction and security configuration management

Attack surface reduction services that systematically remove unused services, exposed endpoints, legacy protocols, and unnecessary administrative permissions. Combined with security configuration management, hardening becomes something you can sustain - not a one-off project that drifts back to where it started.

Why choose Nasstar?

From securing everyday tools like Office 365 to building long-term resilience into your infrastructure, we put strategy before stress. As an experienced UK security hardening company, we combine senior cyber security hardening consultants with hands-on engineering, so the controls we recommend actually get implemented.

There’s always something running in the background that doesn’t need to be. Our hardening services help you clean up, lock down, and stay ahead of the stuff that puts your business at risk. Whether you need a quick fix or a full security refresh, we’ve got you covered.

We’ve worked with teams mid-incident, post-incident, and happily pre-incident - and we know how to turn messy systems into secure, resilient ones. Whether you’re navigating internal politics or external audits, we’ll help you get your defences up and take the pressure off your team.

Between phishing attempts, rule-based shenanigans, and mystery logins, things get messy fast. Our Microsoft Office 365 Security Hardening service strengthens your email and collaboration environment with advanced protections.

We never treat security as a checkbox or a last-minute scramble. Our experts will set up the right controls, close the right gaps, and make sure your systems can take a hit and keep going.

Whatourexpertsays...

Cyber criminals are always looking for new and innovative ways to hack into organisations, so "hardening" your environment is vital for protecting your technology tools and solutions. At Nasstar, our security hardening service allows you to focus on business while we keep you safe and secure.

Justin BarkerEmployee Experience Practice Lead, Nasstar

Case studies

We’ve worked with several businesses to improve their security defences and protect against ever-changing cyber risks.

Energy & Utilities

Xoserve

What others have to say…

"Support, expertise, and tailored services from Nasstar played a crucial role in the successful and efficient migration and separation of our systems. Their seamless management of data and migration minimised disruptions, while their responsive and proactive approach and understanding of our business were extremely beneficial in delivering a project of this size."

Sandra Simpson

Chief People Officer

Correla

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Security hardening is where organisations, such as Nasstar, help businesses to reduce their IT vulnerabilities. It can help to prevent cyber attacks and data breaches by improving the effectiveness of the business’ security defences. 

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Talktoasecurityhardeningexpert.

Not sure where to start with security hardening? Talk to one of our experts. We’ll review your current estate, the baselines you’re trying to meet, and the risks most relevant to your sector, then recommend a hardening engagement that fits - with no obligation and no hard sell.