Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Features
What are the features of Microsoft Defender for Office 365?
Administration
- Intelligence Reporting
- Email Integration Suppor
- Access Management
- Data Loss Prevention
Maintenance
- Auditing
- Allow and block lists
- Compliance
- Archiving
Security
- Anti-Malware/Anti-Spam
- Encryption
- Quarantine
- Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
- Anti-Phishing
- Account takeover prevention
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Administration
Intelligence Reporting | Based on 142 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Actively gathers data on suspicious sources and characteristics of potentially malicious content | 88% (Based on 142 reviews) | |
Email Integration Suppor | Based on 140 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Supports secure implementation with popular email applications and clients. | 90% (Based on 140 reviews) | |
Access Management | Based on 137 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows administrators to set user access privileges to permit approved parties to access sensitive data. | 89% (Based on 137 reviews) | |
Data Loss Prevention | Based on 135 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Has pre-built data loss prevention (DLP) functions which prevent employees or accounts that have been hacked from sending out sensitive information. | 85% (Based on 135 reviews) | |
Compliance | Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards. | Not enough data | |
Intelligence Reporting | Actively gathers data on suspicious sources and characteristics of potentially malicious content | Not enough data | |
Email Clients | Supports secure implementation with popular email applications and clients. | Not enough data | |
Role-Based Rules | Allows administrators to set user access privileges to permit approved parties to access sensitive data. | Not enough data |
Maintenance
Auditing | Based on 133 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Access pre-built and custom reports to monitor user activity and storage. | 87% (Based on 133 reviews) | |
Allow and block lists | Based on 140 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Prevents previous committers of fraud and other suspicious accounts from future communications | 88% (Based on 140 reviews) | |
Compliance | Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards. This feature was mentioned in 136 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 reviews. | 88% (Based on 136 reviews) | |
Archiving | Based on 131 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Archives conversations, files, and other communications for future reference | 86% (Based on 131 reviews) |
Security
Anti-Malware/Anti-Spam | Based on 142 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Prevents malware or spam in emails either through predictive or reactive anti-malware/anti-spam tools. | 90% (Based on 142 reviews) | |
Encryption | Encrypts the content of emails and their attachments. This feature was mentioned in 136 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 reviews. | 89% (Based on 136 reviews) | |
Quarantine | Based on 139 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Isolates potentially malicious content and files before they can gain network access | 88% (Based on 139 reviews) | |
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) | Based on 139 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Includes advanced tools, including machine learning analysis to detect threats often missed by traditional filtering tools, such as unsafe attachments, advanced malware, and targetted social engineering attacks. | 91% (Based on 139 reviews) | |
Anti-Phishing | Based on 142 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Prevents both phishing attacks and spear-fishing attacks, including impersonation attacks. | 90% (Based on 142 reviews) | |
Account takeover prevention | Based on 132 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Has pre-built data loss prevention (DLP) functions which prevent employees or accounts that have been hacked from sending out sensitive information. | 87% (Based on 132 reviews) |
Detection
Data Exfiltration Detection | Alerts administrators and other related parties about the unauthorized movement or release of company information. | Not enough data | |
Activity Monitoring | Monitors user email activity, documents behaviors for baselining and anomaly detection. | Not enough data | |
Real-Time Detection | Constantly monitors system to detect anomalies in real time. | Not enough data |
Protection
Targeted Attack Prevention | Analyzes historical email data, identifies at-risk individuals, then detects and blocks targeted spam emails. | Not enough data | |
Policy Enforcement | Allows administrators to set policies for security and governance. | Not enough data | |
Spam Filtering | Prevents spam emails containing phishing links, suspicious URLs, and malicous attatchments from reaching a user's inbox. | Not enough data |