Information technology consulting

Your Microsoft cloud, run properly.

We design, secure and automate Microsoft 365 for organisations that need enterprise-grade IT without an enterprise-sized team — identity, devices, data protection and security operations, done by someone who does this every day.

What we work with
Microsoft 365 Entra ID Intune Purview Defender Sentinel Power Platform Azure PowerShell & Graph
Services

What we do

Hands-on help across the Microsoft stack — from first tenant to hardened, audited, automated estate.

Microsoft 365 administration

Tenant design and clean-up, migrations, multi-tenant governance and licence optimisation — so the platform fits the business instead of the other way round.

  • Tenant setup and migrations
  • Exchange, SharePoint and Teams governance
  • Licensing review and cost control

Identity & endpoint management

Entra ID and Intune configured the way Microsoft intends: Conditional Access that blocks the right things, devices enrolled, patched and compliant from day one.

  • Conditional Access and MFA design
  • Windows, macOS and mobile enrolment
  • LAPS, compliance policies and baselines

Data protection with Purview

Sensitivity labels, DLP and insider risk policies that protect what matters without drowning your people in false positives.

  • Label taxonomy and rollout
  • DLP and rights management tuning
  • Insider Risk and Adaptive Protection

Security operations & detection

Defender and Sentinel tuned to your environment, custom KQL detections for the threats that generic rules miss, and audit-log investigations when something looks wrong.

  • Defender XDR and Sentinel onboarding
  • KQL detection engineering
  • Investigations and incident response

Compliance & hardening

Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus and CIS benchmark alignment — with the evidence to prove it, not just a tick in a box.

  • CE / CE+ readiness and remediation
  • CIS baselines for M365 and Windows
  • Secure Score and audit evidence packs

Automation & reporting

The repetitive admin work, automated: Power Platform workflows, Azure Automation runbooks and PowerShell against Graph, surfaced in Power BI so you can see the state of your estate.

  • Helpdesk, procurement and request flows
  • Licence and permission sync runbooks
  • Power BI dashboards for IT and audit
Approach

Fixed scope. Documented handover. No lock-in.

Every engagement ends with your team able to run what we built. If you want us to keep running it, that's a separate conversation — never a condition.

01

Assess

A short, structured review of your tenant, identities, devices and controls against CIS and Cyber Essentials. You get a prioritised findings report you can act on with or without us.

02

Build

Agreed changes delivered in small, tested steps with change records and rollback plans. Nothing goes live in your tenant that you haven't seen first.

03

Run

Documentation, runbooks and a handover session for your team. Optional monthly retainer for monitoring, patch review and the questions that come up after go-live.

Kieran Carruthers
About

Built by someone who does the work, not just the slides.

Carruthers Technology Consulting is led by Kieran Carruthers, a hands-on Microsoft 365 specialist across identity, endpoints, Purview, security operations and the automation that holds it all together — with a security operations background, watching what actually gets attacked.

That means advice grounded in what works in production, not what looks good in a slide deck — and a habit of building tooling and writing it down so it keeps working after we leave.

Microsoft 365 & Entra Purview & DLP Detection engineering Cyber Essentials Plus Open-source security tooling

Let's talk about your estate.

A 30-minute call to understand where you are and whether we're the right fit. No pitch deck, no obligation.

hello@carrutherstc.com Working remotely with clients across the UK and internationally