Chapter 8: Microsoft Defender for Office – Threats to Productivity
Microsoft Defender for Office (MDO) is the next Defender product in our sights, this time for your email and collaboration tools. This seems to be one of the more underutilized sets of tools, and I think that's primarily because a lot of this suite has come into its own recently. Bringing the features of MDO under the Security.Microsoft.com portal umbrella has helped shine a light on them for those not familiar with them.
I think there are plenty of exciting things to cover with MDO, such as Exchange Online Protection (EOP), which is included by default as it's really at the core of MDO. Then, there are other features, such as safe links, safe attachments, anti-phishing, and attack simulation training. We'll cover these in detail throughout this chapter. Two licenses can sum up everything we'll discuss, which we'll cover quickly before continuing with this chapter. As I mentioned previously...