Strengthen your security posture and maintain CSP authorization

Take action now to improve your security score and build trust with customers.

Impacted audience

Indirect resellers

Details

Meeting Microsoft mandatory security requirements helps you reduce risk, demonstrate reliability to customers, and maintain your Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partner authorization. Annual validation of security requirements begins January 2026, so take these key steps to stay secure and authorization-ready:

• Provide a monitored security contact in Partner Center and keep contact information current to ensure timely communication.
• Enable multifactor authentication (MFA) for all in-scope users with administrative roles.
• Review and limit privileged roles regularly and remove inactive accounts.

Next steps

Learn how to improve your security posture using the Security workspace for indirect resellers One-pager.

Track your progress on security requirements in the security workspace, a centralized platform within Partner Center that offers dashboards, alerts, and statistics that you can harness to boost security.

Access more tips and tools to strengthen your security and maintain authorization:

• Security requirements Learn page
• CSP authorization FAQ
• CSP security best practices
• Customer security best practices