Every MSP can sell you Microsoft licenses. ABT builds and manages the governed, hardened, AI-ready environment that financial services regulators expect to see.
Direct Microsoft Relationship
ABT buys licenses directly from Microsoft at Tier-1 pricing. No distributors, no markup layers. Volume pricing that scales with your institution, with the flexibility to add, remove, or change plans monthly.
Tier-2 resellers buy through a distributor like Pax8 or Ingram, which adds a margin on top of Microsoft's price. ABT skips that layer entirely. For a 200-person institution on Business Premium, the annual difference between Tier-1 and Tier-2 pricing can reach $15,000 or more depending on the product mix.
ABT also gets direct escalation paths to Microsoft engineering. When a critical issue hits your tenant, ABT opens a case directly with Microsoft support, not through a distributor's queue.
Financial Services Specialization
GLBA, FFIEC, SOC 2 Type II, NIST CSF 2.0. ABT understands the compliance frameworks your examiners reference because we manage tenants for credit unions, community banks, and mortgage companies every day.
Generic MSPs configure Microsoft 365 the same way for a law firm and a credit union. ABT configures tenants for regulatory compliance from day one. That means conditional access policies that match FFIEC authentication guidance, DLP rules that detect GLBA-defined sensitive data types, and audit logging that produces the artifacts examiners request during IT examinations.
ABT maps 62 of 77 Guardian policies directly to GLBA Safeguards Rule (16 CFR Section 314.4) subsections, with per-policy relevance explanations and automation classifications.
Guardian Security Built In
Every ABT-managed tenant is hardened through Guardian, our managed security and governance platform. Secure Score optimization, conditional access policies, data loss prevention, and audit logging from day one.
Guardian is not a product you install. It is an operating model that wraps around the client's tenant with 80 JSON policy templates across 11 categories, continuous monitoring of 160+ Microsoft Secure Score controls, and zero-tolerance threat response automation that revokes all sign-in sessions on any risk detection, 24 hours a day.
Security Insights gives executives a monthly report showing Secure Score trends, compliance gaps, external sharing exposure, and sign-in anomalies. Productivity Insights tracks application adoption, Copilot usage, and license utilization across every user.
Copilot-Ready Foundation
80% of employees already use AI tools at work. For regulated financial institutions, that creates compliance risk when those tools operate outside the governed environment. ABT builds the foundation so Copilot Business runs inside your tenant with DLP policies, sensitivity labels, and audit trails in place before AI goes live.
Without governance, Copilot can surface overshared files, generate content from stale data, and operate without audit trails. ABT's deployment process includes a pre-Copilot security assessment, Guardian hardening for AI-specific risks, and a 30-day adoption sprint with role-based training.
Zero-Downtime Migration
Switching your Microsoft 365 licensing provider should not mean downtime or data risk. ABT has migrated hundreds of tenants from other providers with zero disruption to daily operations.
A license transfer is a billing change, not a data migration. Your tenant, users, email, files, and settings remain exactly where they are. ABT assumes billing authority through the CSP channel while your team continues working. The process typically completes within 48 hours.
For organizations moving from on-premises Exchange, ABT runs a full migration project with mailbox-level scheduling, calendar sync validation, and post-migration testing during off-hours.
Ongoing Managed Services
Premier support with direct access to ABT engineers who know your tenant. License optimization reviews, security posture monitoring, and proactive recommendations, not just break-fix when things go wrong.
ABT runs quarterly license reviews to right-size your subscription mix. If 40 of your 200 users only need email and Teams, you should not pay for desktop Office apps they never open. ABT identifies those savings and adjusts licenses to match actual usage patterns.
Your designated ABT engineer tracks your Secure Score, monitors policy drift, and proactively addresses Microsoft configuration changes that affect your tenant.
