Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection

Office 365 Exchange Online Protection

Why is Advanced Threat Protection with Office 365 Important?

The advanced threats of 2015 spread by one of two main vectors: as email attachments, or dropped by exploit kits on users visiting sites with infected ad streams. Most cyber-criminal operations follow the money. They look for the easiest way to steal something of value. Getting thru standard email is easy, real easy.

Small businesses can be more at risk because they often have less advanced computer defenses. Some 80% of small and medium-size businesses don’t use data protection. Less than half use email security, according to Intel Security. Many of the small businesses come to us using personal email with little to no security like aol or yahoo mail.

DPC is using the power of Microsoft Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection through Office 365 to secure small business email systems. With Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection, you can protect your mailboxes against new attacks in real time. By protecting against unsafe attachments and expanding protection against malicious links, it provides better protection.

See this diagram below to understand how your email is scanned and filtered to help remove any looming threats before they hit your inbox.

But just having the service is not enough. Because email is so important to small business, it is important to configure protection in a way that does not impede business. DPC will customize your settings using Office 365 that allows for Data loss and leak prevention. We do this with notification of sender email spoofing, and safe attachments.

Please let DPC Technology Support review your email providers. Let's make sure that you are receiving the latest in inbound and outbound email protection.

By: Daniel R. Nicolitz, CTO DPC Technology Support

Sources:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ransomware-a-growing-threat-to-small-businesses-1429127403
https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-insight/post/Cybersecurity-Predictions-for-2016 https://mikecrowley.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/exchange-online-protection-in-depth-v3.pdf