Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Features

Actively gathers data on suspicious sources and characteristics of potentially malicious content

Supports secure implementation with popular email applications and clients.

Allows administrators to set user access privileges to permit approved parties to access sensitive data.

Has pre-built data loss prevention (DLP) functions which prevent employees or accounts that have been hacked from sending out sensitive information.

Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards.

Actively gathers data on suspicious sources and characteristics of potentially malicious content

Supports secure implementation with popular email applications and clients.

Allows administrators to set user access privileges to permit approved parties to access sensitive data.

Access pre-built and custom reports to monitor user activity and storage.

Prevents previous committers of fraud and other suspicious accounts from future communications

Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards.

Archives conversations, files, and other communications for future reference

Prevents malware or spam in emails either through predictive or reactive anti-malware/anti-spam tools.

Encrypts the content of emails and their attachments.

Isolates potentially malicious content and files before they can gain network access

Includes advanced tools, including machine learning analysis to detect threats often missed by traditional filtering tools, such as unsafe attachments, advanced malware, and targetted social engineering attacks.

Prevents both phishing attacks and spear-fishing attacks, including impersonation attacks.

Has pre-built data loss prevention (DLP) functions which prevent employees or accounts that have been hacked from sending out sensitive information.

Alerts administrators and other related parties about the unauthorized movement or release of company information.

Monitors user email activity, documents behaviors for baselining and anomaly detection.

Constantly monitors system to detect anomalies in real time.

Analyzes historical email data, identifies at-risk individuals, then detects and blocks targeted spam emails.

Allows administrators to set policies for security and governance.

Prevents spam emails containing phishing links, suspicious URLs, and malicous attatchments from reaching a user's inbox.

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Improves performance based on feedback and experience