Security is one, if not the top most important priority a business should have. Without it, imminent threats would constantly be another burden the business would have to deal with. Microsoft offers various security platforms, one of those being Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection. Read on to learn how to protect your company from cybersecurity threats.

Breaking it Down

This Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is a cloud-based email server, which prevents viruses, spoofing, and malware to occur to your organization. It’s one of the features included in Microsoft’s enterprise E5 and business premium offers. The basic starting price is $2.60 per user- a low cost, for high protection!

Besides the cost-effective advantages, here are the following features to sell you on it even further:

Top 5 Features of ATP:

1. Attachments

This ensures any attachments coming through to your business emails are safe and not malicious or virus-prone. This means, whenever someone in your organization receives an email with an attachment, this safety feature will automatically test the attachment to ensure it doesn’t affect your business.

If everything is normal, the attachment will open and if not, it will be deleted.

2. Links

Nowadays, hacks and general cyber-attacks often occur through links. This is obviously especially prominent from those links you get from strange third-party sources. It is evident to most to not click on these links, but mistakes do happen.

But that’s why ATP provides a safe link feature. If the link from the email does get clicked on, then this feature simultaneously checks it before allowing you to open it. If it is unsafe, it will be deemed as such and blocked. Otherwise, if it is safe, it will open as normal.

3. Spoofing

Spoofing, although often associated with a negative connotation, is also necessary at times. For example: an assistant speaking on your behalf, lead generation, sales emails, and more. Of course, you can’t do it all yourself so others within your organization, or those who you’ve hired need to ‘spoof’ on your behalf.

For this exact reason, it is crucial to not limit all types of spoofing. The concern should be that it is legitimate, authorized spoofing that occurs instead of those malicious spoof emails. This is why ATP offers a spoof intelligence feature that ensures your organization is protected against that issue.

Your business is then able to configure certain spoof filters to detect differences from real and fake spoof email activity.

4. Anti-Phishing

Thanks to machine learning and various impersonation algorithms, ATP is able to provide an anti-phishing feature to protect your company from phishing occurrences. This feature allows for verification of any and all incoming emails in order to detect any suspicious activity.

After your security team has integrated the ATP, this feature will be automatically applied. Based on the way your team has implemented this, the anti-phishing feature will check certain actions and restrict any phishing queries.

5. Sharepoint, Microsoft Teams, and OneDrive

The three platforms listed above are the most used within business settings in order to increase collaboration and share ideas easily and efficiently. However, just because it is Microsoft-based, security features still need to be implemented to ensure a safe and secure environment.

ATP is able to block any malicious activity attempting to immerse itself into your team site or platform. Once surely identified as malicious, the file for example, will be locked and restricted from anyone being able to open it. Thus, even if not deleted, it will not pose any threat.

Each file within Sharepoint, Microsoft Teams, and OneDrive is scanned by ATP in order to pick out any suspicious documents that may be lurking about.

Time to Secure Your Business?

Real-time protection is more important than ever in today’s new technologically advanced world. If you don’t have a security team, or are looking for help in integrating a security platform into your organization, get in touch with us today!

Secure your business and don’t worry about the constant external cybersecurity threats that exist.