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Microsoft Defender for Office 365

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What is Microsoft Defender for Office 365?

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a security solution used to protect Office 365 against advanced threats, such as phishing and business email compromise. It helps prevent volume-based and targeted attacks, including business email compromise, credential phishing, ransomware, and advanced…

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 9, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Office 365 for all our sharing needs. We have SharePoint, we have various other apps like all the Office 365 apps and that's managed through our centralized CNR team an...
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Verified user
Manager
Microsoft Defender for Office 3656 years of experience

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 20, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use the product to provide solution for business and for the end user of different departments. And the scope, it's going to depend which projects we are using that solutio...
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Angel Martinez
Supervisor - Information Technology
IT Supervisor
Rack
Microsoft Defender for Office 3653 years of experience

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
May 20, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
It's more like a backend passive tool in the way we use it on top of our own tool, so it's a nice multi-pronged approach. Again, this is for protecting our inbox and everythin...
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Kelland Goodin
Engineer - Marketing
Sales Engineer
Darktrace
Microsoft Defender for Office 3651 year of experience

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 20, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
The scope is across all employees. We have a lot of BYOD devices, so bring your own devices is really the main use cases. Lots of remote offices, lots of home offices, so we u...
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Casey Ryan
Director - Other
Director of Operations
WestPark Capital
Microsoft Defender for Office 3653 years of experience

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 20, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
For authentication purposes, if there are any, we have contractors as well in our company. So we have limited exercise, so we have a certain area that only an assigned person ...
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Sunil Patel
Engineer - Engineering
Product Support Engineer
ELLKAY
Microsoft Defender for Office 3653 years of experience
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Product Details

What is Microsoft Defender for Office 365?

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a security solution used to protect Office 365 against advanced threats, such as phishing and business email compromise. It helps prevent volume-based and targeted attacks, including business email compromise, credential phishing, ransomware, and advanced malware with a robust filtering stack, as well as to detect malicious and suspicious content like links and files across Office 365.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
August 09, 2024
Verified User
Manager in Product Management
Telecommunications Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Defender for Office 365
6 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Office 365 for all our sharing needs. We have SharePoint, we have various other apps like all the Office 365 apps and that's managed through our centralized CNR team and it also has Defender to protect all the employees accessing all the documents together.
Pros
  • It has been seamlessly working for us. We have not faced any issue as an end user. I've not faced many issues around accessing my apps, securely accessing and I've also seen certain links being blocked if I do not have correct access based on the security level that is defined for each user.
Cons
  • I would believe sometimes the links can be shared outside of the organization. I think that can be improved in the product. You can better manage how you share documents and you can better manage that centrally through the endpoints here.
Likelihood to Recommend
For an organization like us, it's a big organization, roughly around 7,000 to 8,000 employees, and we have people working from anywhere in the world. We are a remote-first company, so everyone's accessing from their home environments of Office 365. Securely managing so many users and giving them a seamless experience is what I've seen this product is doing well. Area for improvement: sometimes setting off the links can be a pain, it can block certain links. When users do have access, it can cause some issues there.

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
May 20, 2024
CR
Casey Ryan
Director of Operations
WestPark Capital (Financial Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Defender for Office 365
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The scope is across all employees. We have a lot of BYOD devices, so bring your own devices is really the main use cases. Lots of remote offices, lots of home offices, so we use the vendor to secure all those devices that are connected to our network.
Pros
  • Deployment's really effective so we can get into our device as well. And generally it protects us from, I guess malware and viruses is the main thing. So I wouldn't put defenders. Sometimes we have trouble with email, but that's not really a vendor issue.
Cons
  • Probably functionality might be, cloud apps might be helpful if it could extend to applications that we're getting data from that aren't necessarily part of our environment or pulling data into our environment. So I guess that would be one thing.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's well suited for our physical deployment of remote people and sort of a SaaS company. It exists in cyberspace, so that's really very constructive. Where it's not, these sort of very specific data sets and sort of identity protection for customers, it's not as useful and it may not be one of its core purposes, but we're trying to use it for that as well.

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
May 20, 2024
AM
Angel Martinez
IT Supervisor
Rack (Farming, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Defender for Office 365
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use the product to provide solution for business and for the end user of different departments. And the scope, it's going to depend which projects we are using that solution. And for some user and also for some countries because we are globally company.
Pros
  • I mean, Microsoft is a good tool. It's a good and helpful solution, and we leverage on all of their capabilities, I would say.
Cons
  • Well, we need to be integrated with other system because it doesn't have all the functionalities that we will like for the application or the tool. But yeah, it's okay because no one solution have everything not there.
Likelihood to Recommend
N/A

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
May 20, 2024
KG
Kelland Goodin
Sales Engineer
Darktrace (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Defender for Office 365
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It's more like a backend passive tool in the way we use it on top of our own tool, so it's a nice multi-pronged approach. Again, this is for protecting our inbox and everything.
Pros
  • Generally, I see our product act on a bit first and before that, so that probably wouldn't be the best detail I could give, unfortunately.
Cons
  • No cons to really come up with.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's well suited for people who need a one stopgap solution or need to stay in the Microsoft family. That's probably the most appropriate option; less appropriate is if you're on a tight budget, maybe, and you're like a smaller startup.

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
May 20, 2024
SP
Sunil Patel
Product Support Engineer
ELLKAY (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Defender for Office 365
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
For authentication purposes, if there are any, we have contractors as well in our company. So we have limited exercise, so we have a certain area that only an assigned person can go into that area. Only for that access to the libraries we use this application.
Pros
  • It's authenticated, right? So without your approval it'll not go and without its acceptance you cannot enter. So it's both way, it's very secure.
Cons
  • I haven't experienced like that. It is very user friendly.
Likelihood to Recommend
So when, for example, if I change the device, then you have to set up everything right? Sometimes it's difficult to recover your data. Sometimes if you don't know your ID, you have to go to the admin person. You cannot do it by yourself. You have to go to the MSP person.
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