WELCOME TO MICROSOFT 365 & SURFACE: THE MODERN WORKPLACE IS EVOLVING.
Microsoft 365 and Surface deliver the experiences employees love, the protection organisations demand, and flexibility for teams to work their way. Encourage productivity, engagement, and collaboration with Surface for Business.
9 hours
According to Forrester Research, Microsoft 365-powered Surface devices give users up to 5 hours in weekly productivity gains with up to 9 hours saved per week for highly mobile workers
112%
ROI on Microsoft 365 with Surface
75%
Agree Microsoft 365-powered Surface devices help improve employee satisfaction and retention
PRODUCTIVITY CLOUD & SURFACE
Devices they love on the platform you trust – all supported by secure device management
Create
• Experience industry-leading typing comfort
• Dictate with your voice
• Draw and write using Microsoft Ink
Communicate
• Distraction-free Focused Inbox
• Add live captions
• Translation tools
Collaborate
• Collaborate with Microsoft Teams
• Co-author Office documents
• Share ideas with Microsoft Whiteboard
TOTAL SECURITY
From chip to cloud, Microsoft 365 and Surface helps organisations stay protected.
| Security Feature |
Device Feature |
Surface Feature |
What does it mean? | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEMM (Surface Enterprise Management Mode) | Yes | Yes | Feature of Surface devices with Surface UEFI that allows you to secure and manage firmware settings within your organization.1 | |
| Conditional Access | M365 E5 | Optimised user experience by granting access based on use of Windows Hello as multi-factor authentication built into Surface. | ||
| Protected DMA Access | Yes | Yes | We placed a boot mask over PCI-E port during boot so it is inaccessible, we remove power to entire device if the SSD is ever removed and during boot all of RAM is zero’d out by UEFI. | |
| Windows Defender Credential Guard | Yes | Isolate and harden key systems and user secrets. This makes an attack against user credentials much harder to perform. | ||
| Windows Defender Application Control | Yes | Harden computers against malware and prevent malicious code. This stops code that has not been previously ratified as secure from running. | ||
| Device encryption | Yes | Implementing BitLocker, and managing that through a TPM chip. | ||
| Purpose Built UEFI w/TPM 2.0 | Yes | Yes All Current |
Microsoft’s unique Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is built by Microsoft, delivers automatic updates, and is consistent, minimizing risk and maximizing your control.1 | |
| Device Firmware Configuration Interface (DCFI) | Yes | Yes All Current |
Cloud-scale remote firmware management with zero-touch device provisioning. Eliminates BIOS passwords, provides control of security settings including boot options and built-in peripherals. | |
| Removable SSD2 | Yes | Laptop 3 & Pro X | Confidence around data retention on serviced devices. | |
| Removable SSD | Yes | Yes | Written in partnership with the US security services, this tool allows you to fully wipe and erase a Surface. US DoD approved. | |
| Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) | Yes | Providing evergreen and updated malware protection, digital forensics (to identify the attack after the event). Running the agents in a separate memory space (discussed in the next point) reduces the risk of the Defender code itself being compromised. | ||
| Windows Hello | Yes | Optimised | Hello process designed and tested for Surface. Surface camera specifically designed for Hello. | |
| Physical TPM 2.0 | Yes | By using a physical TPM 2.0 chip in most of the Surface range, rather than a virtualised environment inside firmware, we have a more secure and sandboxed environment for storing passwords, PIN numbers and certificates. | ||
| Secure Boot | Yes | Optimised | Enabled by UEFI and TPM 2.0. Only code signed, measured, and correctly implemented can execute on a Surface device. | |
| BitLocker | Yes | Optimised | Our physical TPM and the UEFI control allows a significantly improved and integrated encryption solution. |
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