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With the rising number of cyber threats, businesses of every size are increasingly at risk of falling victim to a cyber-attack. Malware, viruses, and phishing emails can put your business data at serious risk. If cybercriminals are successful and manage to get into your system, this can have a major impact on your business. Financial loss, damaging downtime, data breaches, and hefty fines only being a few of them. However, many businesses still don’t take cybersecurity seriously enough. But the longer they wait, the higher the probability they’ll get attacked. Fortunately, for businesses using cloud-based applications like Office 365, Microsoft offers Advanced Threat Protection to protect your business data from cyber threats when using their popular collaboration tools.  

If you’re not using Advanced Threat Protection or aren’t fully set up yet, you should consider implementing it for your business. Read on to discover what Microsoft 365 Advanced Threat Protection is, what handy features it includes, and why your business needs it. 

What is Advanced Threat Protection?

Advanced Threat Protection, now recognised as Microsoft Office 365 Defender, is a cloud-based filtering service to help you protect your business from malware and viruses and offers better day-zero protection. It will safeguard your business from threats entering your system through the Microsoft 365 apps, or spam and phishing emails that include malicious links. Microsoft Office 365 Defender doesn’t only allow you to detect and identify cyber threats, with its many features, it also enables you to investigate threats to get more visibility into who is targeting your business, and then prioritise threats, and respond to them accordingly. 

What are the features it includes?

  • Microsoft Office 365 Defender protects your emails, files and Microsoft 365 applications from malware and viruses through the following features:
  • Threat protection policies: Defender allows you to set specific security policies depending on the level of protection your business needs.
  • Reports: Microsoft Defender for Microsoft 365 gives you the latest insights and helps you detect threats in real-time and analyse them.
  • Threat investigation: With threat investigation, your team can anticipate, understand and prevent cyber-attacks.

Automated investigation: Automated investigation is a new feature that helps your team save time and effort with risk mitigation, allowing you to identify and mitigate risks much sooner.

Why do you need Advanced Threat Protection?

Educating your employees, setting up data encryption, changing your passwords and updating your systems regularly are effective ways to protect your business from cyber-attacks. But alongside these, you also need advanced security features like Microsoft 365 Advanced Threat Protection to protect your business from malware or viruses entering your systems. Especially as phishing emails are an extremely popular and effective method to attack a business and compromise data, so you need to ensure full protection for your business email accounts. Microsoft 365 Advanced Threat Protection allows you to:

  • Protect in real-time: Advanced Threat Protection helps you protect your files, applications, and inboxes from advanced cyber-attacks in real-time.
  • Have more visibility: You’ll also get visibility into who in your business might be targeted and what type of attacks you might be a target for.
  • Block unsafe attachments: It helps protect you from downloading unsafe attachments landing in your employees’ inboxes.
  • Block unsafe links: If your team is about to click on a malicious link, they’ll get notified or warned.
    Track URL Tracing: Microsoft Defender lets you track who clicked on a malicious link.

Protecting your Microsoft 365 data and applications is key if you don’t want to fall victim to cyber-attacks. As they’re getting more sophisticated and more frequent, you need to think about a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy rather sooner than later.  

If you’re not sure where to start or need a bit of help getting Advanced Threat Protection for Microsoft Office 365 set up, get in touch today to talk to one of our Microsoft experts. They will talk you through it and help you set up your protection to the standards you need.