Step 1 of 6 · Account Profile

What industry is the customer in?

How many users / seats?

Step 2 of 6 · Current State

What Microsoft licence are they on today?

Who manages IT?

Step 3 of 6 · Pain Points

What keeps them up at night? (select up to 3)

Step 4 of 6 · Environment

Any compliance or insurance requirements?

What devices are in use?

Step 5 of 6 · Deal Context

Where are you in the conversation?

Who are you talking to?

Step 6 of 6 · Upgrade Goal

What is the target licence you want to land them on?

Analysing account profile...

Business Case

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StackRecon gives Microsoft presales and SE teams the intelligence, AI tools, and customer-ready assets to qualify faster, pitch sharper, and close with confidence.

🛡 Defender

⚡ Deal Tools

📄 Customer Assets

6

Defender Products

7

Battle Cards

5

Deal Tools

18

CIS Controls

5

SKUs Mapped

AI

Powered Assets

Defender Portfolio

Microsoft's integrated security suite — 6 products, one unified platform

Defender for Endpoint

EDR/AV platform for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android. MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detections + ASR rules.

vs CrowdStrikevs SentinelOneEDR

Defender for Identity

Identity threat detection using AD/Entra signals. Lateral movement, Pass-the-Hash, AS-REP Roasting detection.

vs Vectravs DarktraceITDR

Defender for Office 365

Anti-phishing, Safe Links, Safe Attachments, BEC protection for Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive.

vs Proofpointvs MimecastEmail

Defender for Cloud Apps

CASB + SaaS security posture. Anomalous behaviour, OAuth app governance, shadow IT discovery.

vs Netskopevs ZscalerCASB

Defender XDR

Unified XDR + SIEM platform. Cross-product incident correlation, automated investigation, threat hunting.

vs Splunkvs Palo Alto XSIAMXDR/SIEM

Defender for Cloud

CNAPP — CSPM + CWPP across Azure, AWS, GCP. Agentless scanning, DevSecOps pipeline integration.

vs Wizvs Prisma CloudCNAPP

Deal Tools

AI-powered tools to qualify, pitch and close Microsoft security deals faster

⚡

Business Case Builder

Answer 6 questions about your customer and get a full AI-generated business case — security story, upsell motions, T-minus timeline, and objection handling.

Live

🔍

Discovery Question Bank

40+ pre-built discovery questions organised by persona (Business Owner, IT Manager, CFO) and topic. One click to copy into your meeting notes.

Coming Soon

🧪

POC / Trial Planner

Generate a week-by-week 30-day POC plan based on the Defender products in scope and the customer's key success criteria.

Coming Soon

✉

Email Generator

AI-written follow-up emails for post-discovery, post-demo, proposal, stalled deals, and renewal conversations — tuned to SMB plain English.

Coming Soon

💰

Licensing Calculator

Input user count and current SKU to see the cost delta to Premium / E3 / E5 with a simple payback estimate and per-user per-month breakdown.

Planned

Reference

SKU guides, frameworks, analyst positioning, and competitive intelligence

📋

SKU Reference

Side-by-side feature comparison across Business Basic, Standard, Premium, E3, and E5 — with upsell talking points per SKU.

Live

🛡

CIS Controls Map

All 18 CIS Controls v8 mapped to Defender products with IG1/IG2/IG3 filters and per-product coverage scoring.

Live

📊

Analyst Benchmarks

Gartner MQ, Forrester Wave, IDC MarketScape, and MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations — Microsoft plotted against key competitors.

Live

💥

Right of Boom Model

7-phase incident lifecycle map showing where each Defender product intervenes — from Identify through Recover.

Live

🔄

Competitor Swap Guide

Step-by-step migration checklists for replacing CrowdStrike, Proofpoint, Mimecast, and Splunk with Microsoft Defender equivalents.

Planned

Customer Assets

AI-generated customer-facing documents and interactive demos — ready in minutes

📄

One-Pager Generator

AI-generates a branded, customer-ready one-pager tailored to the customer's industry and pain points. Download as HTML to print or email.

Coming Soon

📊

Executive Summary Builder

Boardroom-ready, non-technical executive summary generated from your business case answers. Outcome-focused language for CFOs and CEOs.

Coming Soon

🔒

Cyber Insurance Readiness

Maps common cyber insurance questionnaire requirements to specific Defender controls — showing which SKU satisfies which policy requirement.

Coming Soon

⚔

Attack Scenario Simulator

Interactive walkthrough of a ransomware or BEC attack showing at each step which Defender capability fires — with a "what if they didn't have Premium?" comparison.

Planned

Right of Boom Model

Where each Defender product intervenes across the incident lifecycle — before, during, and after breach

"Right of Boom" is the security operations framework that acknowledges breaches will happen — and maps capability investment across the full incident lifecycle. Left of Boom = prevention & hardening before an attack lands. The Boom = the moment of compromise. Right of Boom = detection, containment, eradication, and recovery after the fact. Microsoft Defender products span the entire spectrum, making it a uniquely complete platform for presales conversations that challenge point solutions.

💥 THE BOOM — Moment of Compromise

CIS Controls Map

CIS Controls v8 — all 18 controls mapped to Defender products by coverage type and Implementation Group

The CIS Critical Security Controls v8 define 18 prioritised security practices across three Implementation Groups (IG1 = essential hygiene, IG2 = enterprise, IG3 = advanced). This map shows how each Defender product contributes — whether as the primary control mechanism, a partial contributor, or a supporting signal source. Use this in customer conversations to demonstrate framework alignment and close coverage gaps against a recognised standard.

FILTER //

CIS Control	MDE	MDI	MDO	MDCA	XDR	MDfC

✓ Primary control mechanism

P Partial / contributes

S Supporting signal / data

— Not applicable

1 IG1 Essential

2 IG2 Enterprise

3 IG3 Advanced

Product Coverage Summary

Analyst Benchmarks

Gartner Magic Quadrant · Forrester Wave · IDC MarketScape · MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations

Positioning data is sourced from publicly available analyst reports and Microsoft disclosures. Quadrant positions and scores are approximated from published report summaries, vendor announcements, and cited extracts — exact coordinates are proprietary to each analyst firm. Use this as a directional reference in presales conversations, not as a verbatim analyst citation. Always link customers to the primary source for full methodology.

Gartner Magic Quadrant

Forrester Wave

IDC MarketScape

MITRE ATT&CK Evals

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