One of North America’s largest distributors of natural, organic, fresh, and specialty foods, the customer serves retailers and suppliers through a nearly 20-distribution center network and a workforce of around 7,000 employee-owners. 

The customer maintained a Microsoft 365 environment with related productivity and application tools, including Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint. Heightened security solutions were also in place to protect the customer’s critical data in the event of a cyberattack.

Sentinel worked alongside the customer to design and implement a security-hardened Microsoft 365 cleanroom environment dedicated to business continuity and operational resilience. The Sentinel team gathered the customer’s requirements, designed the cleanroom to those specifications, and conducted security best-practice reviews with key personnel leading up to the deployment of a siloed Microsoft 365 environment configured to support critical business functions. Documentation, configuration reporting, and knowledge transfer sessions enabled the customer’s IT team to confidently manage and maintain the environment once deployed.

The customer now has a dedicated Microsoft 365 cleanroom tenant custom designed to support critical operations during a security incident or disruption affecting its primary environment. This solution strengthens the customer’s business continuity strategy by providing a secure recovery platform that can be quickly activated when needed. The customer expressed gratitude to the Sentinel team for taking the time to construct and deploy the cleanroom environment, then providing guidance, documentation, and knowledge transfer to ensure it will remain secure and up to date by their internal teams.