Enhance your email protection using Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Intermediate
Administrator
Solution Architect
Technology Manager
Microsoft 365
Office 365

This module examines how Microsoft Defender for Office 365 extends EOP protection through various tools, including Safe Attachments, Safe Links, spoofed intelligence, spam filtering policies, and the Tenant Allow/Block List.

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, should be able to:

  • Describe how the Safe Attachments feature in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 blocks zero-day malware in email attachments and documents.

  • Describe how the Safe Links feature in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protects users from malicious URLs embedded in email and documents that point to malicious websites.

  • Create outbound spam filtering policies.

  • Manage email access with the Restrict Access list and the Tenant Allow/Block list.

  • Submit messages, URLs, files, and attachments to Microsoft for analysis.

Prerequisites

None