What does Microsoft Defender for Office 365 do?

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a cloud-based email filtering service that helps protect your organization against unknown malware and viruses by providing robust zero-day protection, and includes features to safeguard your organization from harmful links in real time. Defender for Office 365 has rich reporting and URL trace capabilities that give administrators insight into the kind of attacks happening in your organization.

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Overview

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (formerly ATP) is a cloud-based email filtering service that helps protect your organization against unknown malware and viruses by providing robust zero-day protection, and includes features to safeguard your organization from harmful links in real time. Defender has rich reporting and URL trace capabilities that give administrators insight into the kind of attacks happening in your organization.

• Protect your organization against advanced attacks such as phishing and zero-day malware

• Gain visibility into the threat landscape and leverage actionable insights to mitigate threats in your organization

  Bring together all your team’s chats, meetings, files, and apps so you can easily connect and collaborate from one place with Microsoft Teams

  Create team sites to share information, content, and files throughout your intranet using SharePoint

  Join meetings on the go with a dial-in number using Audio Conferencing8

  Host webinars that include attendee registration pages, email confirmations, and reporting

  Web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote

  Plus a web version of Outlook

  Plus a web version of Outlook

  Plus a web version of Outlook

  Always up-to-date versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for iOS and Android on up to 5 mobile devices and 5 tablets6

  Real-time coauthoring so multiple users can work in the same document, simultaneously

  This feature is partially included

  This feature is partially included

  Email hosting with 50 GB mailbox

  Use your own custom domain name (for example, [email protected])

  Business-class email on mobile devices, tablets, desktops, and the web with Exchange

  Manage your calendar, share available meeting times, schedule meetings, and get reminders

  Schedule meetings and respond to invitations with ease using shared calendars

  Set up new user emails, restore deleted accounts, create custom scripts, and more from anywhere

  Enable large cloud archive and long-term preservation policies with Exchange Online Archiving

  Store and share files with 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage per user

  Work on a file and save it directly to OneDrive or SharePoint; your changes are updated across your synced devices

  Share files with external contacts by providing access or guest links

  Securely share documents and send emails so only those with the right permissions can access the information

  Access and sync files on PC or Mac and mobile devices

  This feature is partially included

  This feature is partially included

  This feature is partially included

  Protect your email against spam, malware, and known threats with Exchange Online Protection

  Meets key international, regional, and industry-specific standards and terms, with more than 1,000 security and privacy controls

  Control who and when someone has access to your business information with security groups and custom permissions

  Create password policies that require users to reset their passwords after a specified number of days.

  Microsoft acts as a processor for data

  Under Domain Account Sign-Up

  Under Domain Account Sign-Up

  Microsoft acts as a controller for data

  Around the clock phone and online support

  Have peace of mind with 99.9% financially-backed uptime guarantee

  Licensed for commercial use

  This feature is partially included

  Gather feedback from your customers and employees with Microsoft Forms

  Create, edit, share, and coauthor professional diagrams and flowcharts with Microsoft Visio for the web

  Plan schedules and daily tasks with Microsoft Teams

  Track information and work that matters most to your team with Microsoft Lists

  Make it easier for your customers to schedule and manage appointments with Microsoft Bookings

  Fully installed and always up-to-date versions of Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote for Windows or Mac (plus Access and Publisher for PC only)

  Each user can install the Office apps on up to 5 PCs or Macs6

  Get enterprise-grade endpoint security across your devices to protect against ransomware and other cyberthreats

  Help protect against sophisticated threats hidden in email attachments and links, and get cutting-edge defenses against phishing attacks with Defender for Office 365

  Restrict the copying or saving of company information to unauthorized apps and locations with app protection for Office mobile apps

  Control who has access to company information by applying restrictions like do not copy and do not forward with Information Rights Management

  Apply policies that provide pre-breach threat resistance in Windows 11 and Windows 10 with attack surface reduction and exploit protection capabilities

  Help employees securely access business apps wherever they work with conditional access, while helping prevent unauthorized access

  Configure security features and settings on Windows 11 and Windows 10 PCs and mobile devices running iOS or Android® with an easy-to-use setup wizard7

  Use simplified controls to manage policies applied to Windows 11 and Windows 10 PCs

  Automatically deploy the Office apps to Windows 11 and Windows 10 PCs

  Configure your PCs to automatically install Office, Windows 11 and Windows 10 updates

  Apply security policies to protect business data on all your devices, including iOS, Android®, and Windows PCs with mobile device management from Intune7

  What is the purpose of Microsoft 365 defender?

  Microsoft 365 Defender is a unified pre- and post-breach enterprise defense suite that natively coordinates detection, prevention, investigation, and response across endpoints, identities, email, and applications to provide integrated protection against sophisticated attacks.

  Is Microsoft 365 Defender an antivirus?

  Microsoft Defender Antivirus is your next-generation protection. Office 365 includes antiphishing, antispam, and antimalware protection. With your Office 365 subscription, you get premium email and calendars, Office apps, 1 TB of cloud storage (via OneDrive), and advanced security across all your devices.

  Is Office 365 Defender good?

  Defender for Office 365 is an excellent software in general. It provides so many special tools that may be used to check, safeguard, and test your environment. Defender provides attack simulators, hunting and vulnerability scans.

  What does Microsoft Defender cover?

  Microsoft 365 Defender Get integrated threat protection across devices, identities, apps, email, data and cloud workloads.