Item: Microsoft Defender for Office 365
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Defender for Office 365

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 and Cons

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.

Return on Investment

It has been a positive impact on the ROI. When we moved to being a remote-first company, it has give us all the positive return of investment of anything that we have put in the product for employees working across the world during Covid times. It has helped us achieve those results seamlessly.

Usability

N/A

Alternatives Considered

We have multiple endpoints, actually, we have for our laptops as well, but particularly for Office 365, this is the only one that we've been using. We've not used anything since we moved to Office 365.

Key Insights

Do you think Microsoft Defender for Office 365 delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Defender for Office 365's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Defender for Office 365 live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Defender for Office 365 again?

Yes

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.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Review