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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