Advanced Threat Protection Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is a new email filtering service that complements Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and provides protection against specific types of advanced threats including phishing and zero day attacks. ATP delivers the following benefits: Safe links. Attackers sometimes try to hide malicious URLs with seemingly safe links that are redirected to…
Exchange Online Protection Exchange Online Protection is a cloud-based anti-spam and antivirus solution. Organizations can choose to deploy it as a single solution or a hybrid solution together with the Exchange Server on-premise antivirus protection. Because this is a cloud-based product, it does not require any hardware or software deployment. Instead, the current Mail Exchanger…
Searching the audit log in O365 In the Security & Compliance Center, click Search & investigation > Audit log search. Configure the following search criteria (Note: Leave this box blank to return entries for all files, folders, and URLs in your organization): Activities. Click the drop-down list to display the activities that you can search for. User and admin…
Enabling auditing in your O365 Tenant Enabling auditing in your tenant is a one-time process. Follow these steps to turn it on: In the Security & Compliance Center, click Search & investigation > Audit log search in the left navigation pane. Click Start recording user and admin activities. Note: If you don’t see this link, auditing has already been turned…
Creating a transport rule to bypass safe attachments You can create a transport rule, also known as a mail flow rule, in the Exchange admin center to bypass safe attachments scanning. To understand how you create a transport rule that bypasses scanning, review the following steps: Open a browser and navigate to the Office 365 portal….
Modifying an existing safe attachments policy The following steps illustrate how you would use the Security & Compliance Center to modify an existing safe attachments policy named SA block policy to exempt a security analyst named Ellie. The policy is configured with the following options: The policy is enabled. The action is Block. The policy is applied to…
Creating safe attachment policies by using the Security & Compliance Center You can set up an ATP safe attachments policy using either the Security & Compliance Center or the Exchange admin center (EAC). Creating a new safe attachment policy: The following steps describe how to create a new safe attachment policy. Go to the Security &…
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Protect against threats – Office 365 Microsoft 365 includes a variety of threat protection features. Here’s a quick-start guide you can use as a checklist to make sure your threat protection features are set up for your organization. Important Initial recommended settings are included for each kind of policy; however, many options are available, and…
Types of reports in the Security & Compliance Center – Office 365 A wide variety of reports are available in the Security & Compliance Center. (Go to Reports > Dashboard to get an all-up view.) The following table lists available reports with links to learn more: Type of information How to get there Where to go to learn more…