Threat protection policies
Threat protection policies provide a great way to configure the necessary protection for your organization when it comes to Office 365. They're all conveniently in one spot for you to view. Before we get into the policies themselves, let's highlight what policies there are and the two main ways we can configure them.
First things first, let's head over to https://security.microsoft.com/threatpolicy. From here, we'll see two sections for policies: Templated policies (Figure 8.2) and Policies (Figure 8.3).
Templated policies, or preset policies, provide a centralized approach to applying a series of policies at once in either a strict or standard fashion. This gives you a bundles approach so that you can apply strict policies leadership and maybe standard policies to everyone else, ensuring the most sensitive communication is protected. Like most things in Windows environments, when you have situations where both are applied, the...
