Device Hardening Gaps (Secure Configuration Assessment)
The question it answers: Which device hardening settings fail on the most devices, ranked by impact?
Credential Guard, LSA protection, SMBv1, Office macro settings, BitLocker and hundreds more: which hardening settings fail on the most devices, ranked by impact. The configuration counterpart of Exploitable Vulnerabilities.
At a glance
Section titled “At a glance”| Where in the app | Tenant › Defender & Security Operations › Device Hardening Gaps |
| Workload | Security |
| Kind | Findings list · dashboard tile |
| Data | Read from Microsoft 365 when someone first opens it, then kept for the report cache lifetime (Settings > Data & cache, 1 hour unless changed). |
| Licence | Defender for Endpoint P2 or Defender Vulnerability Management. |
| Report id (API and MCP) | tenant.secops.hardening-gaps |
Columns
Section titled “Columns”| Column | Key | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Severity | Severity | Status |
| Category | Category | Text |
| Configuration | Subject | Link |
| Check | Setting | Text |
| Impact / devices | Value | Text |
| Risk | Finding | Text |
| Remediation / devices | Detail | Text |
| Date | When | Date |
| Devices failing | Number | Number |
A findings list hides columns that no row fills. Severity is Critical, Serious, Warning, OK or Info; rows rated Critical, Serious or Warning need attention (Working with findings).
What it needs
Section titled “What it needs”Licence: Defender for Endpoint P2 or Defender Vulnerability Management.
Application permissions on the IntensiveReports app registration (all permissions):
| Permission | API | What it allows | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
ThreatHunting.Read.All | Microsoft Graph | Run hunting queries and read shared saved hunting queries |
Data sources it reads
POST /v1.0/security/runHuntingQuery (DeviceTvmSecureConfigurationAssessment, ...KB)
Through the API and MCP
Section titled “Through the API and MCP”GET /ir-api/v1/reports/tenant.secops.hardening-gaps?size=100An AI assistant reads it with the MCP tool get_report and the id tenant.secops.hardening-gaps. The client needs the Read grant for Security. See Using the API.