Examine Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Intermediate
Administrator
Security Engineer
Solution Architect
Technology Manager
Microsoft 365
Office 365

This module examines how Microsoft Defender for Office 365 extends EOP protection by filtering targeted attacks such as zero-day attacks in email attachments and Office documents, and time-of-click protection against malicious URLs.

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, you'll 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.
  • Unblock users who violated spam filtering policies so they can resume sending emails.

Prerequisites

None