Email is one of the most common form of communication in today's working environment. However, email is also the most targeted object to compromise your users in an effort to breach an organization's security.
In this article, we've outlined the top five key features of Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection(ATP) that helps to keep your organization more secure and helps to ensure that your emails aren't being used against you.
1. Safe attachments
The Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection Safe Attachments feature checks any email attachments that come in to your inbox to make sure it's not malicious. Every time someone clicks on an email with an attachment, Safe Attachments automatically opens the file and tests it within a virtual environment. If the file is to be found safe, it'll open as expected. But, if the file is found to be malicious, it is removed automatically.
2. Safe Links
When an email is received that contains a URL and you click on that link, ATP Safe Links will automatically check the URL before opening it. That URL will either be identified as blocked, malicious, or safe. If the URL is safe, it'll open as usual without any further steps required. If the URL has been blocked, or is identified as malicious, it'll open a warning page.
3. Spoof Intelligence
Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection has built-in spoof protection that helps make sure the legitimate emails are sent, while shielding your organization from any malicious intent. In the Security & Compliance Centre on your Office 365 Admin portal, you can set up spoof filters that can determine the difference between legitimate activity and malicious activity. Also, you can review senders that are spoofing your domain and either block those senders from doing so, or allow them to continue with just a few clicks of your mouse.
4. Office ATP Anti-Phishing Capabilities
Machine learning models and impersonation detection algorithms of Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection Anti-Phishing helps to keep your organization protected from potential phishing attacks. Using the Anti-Phishing capabilities, your security team can set up Office 365 ATP’s Anti-Phishing to check all of your incoming messages for any indication that it could be a phishing attempt. These Anti-Phishing policies can be set for a specific group of people in your organization, or to an entire domain, or to every domain you own.
5. Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams
Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection helps to detect and block potentially malicious files from entering your document libraries or team sites, or locking the file and preventing anyone from accessing it once it’s been identified as malicious. Although it’ll still show in your site, the blocked file won’t be able to be opened, moved, copied, or shared (but you can delete it). Also, these files will be included in a list of quarantined items, so members of your security team can download, release, report or delete them from the system.
