Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 safeguards your organization against malicious threats posed by email messages, links (URLs), and collaboration tools. Defender for Office 365 includes:

• Threat protection policies: Define threat-protection policies to set the appropriate level of protection for your organization.

• Reports: View real-time reports to monitor Defender for Office 365 performance in your organization.

• Threat investigation and response capabilities: Use leading-edge tools to investigate, understand, simulate, and prevent threats.

• Automated investigation and response capabilities: Save time and effort investigating and mitigating threats.

Interactive guide to Microsoft Defender for Office 365

In this interactive guide you'll learn how to safeguard your organization with Microsoft Defender for Office 365. You'll see how Defender for Office 365 can help you define protection policies, analyze threats to your organization, and respond to attacks.

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Getting Started

If you're new to Microsoft Defender for Office 365 or learn best by doing, you may benefit from breaking initial Defender for Office 365 configuration into chunks, investigating, and viewing reports using this article as a reference. Here are logical early configuration chunks:

• Configure everything with 'anti' in the name.
  • anti-malware
  • anti-phishing
  • anti-spam
• Set up everything with 'safe' in the name.
  • Safe Links
  • Safe Attachments
• Defend the workloads (ex. SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Teams)
• Protect with zero-hour auto purge (ZAP).

To learn by doing, click this link.

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 and Plan 2

The following table summarizes what's included in each plan.

• Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 is included in Office 365 E5, Office 365 A5, and Microsoft 365 E5.

• Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 is included in Microsoft 365 Business Premium.

• Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 and Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 are each available as an add-on for certain subscriptions. To learn more, here's another link Feature availability across Microsoft Defender for Office 365 plans.

• The Safe Documents feature is only available to users with the Microsoft 365 E5 or Microsoft 365 E5 Security licenses (not included in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 plans).

• If your current subscription doesn't include Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and you want it, contact sales to start a trial, and find out how Microsoft Defender for Office 365 can work for in your organization.

• Microsoft Defender for Office 365 P2 customers have access to Microsoft 365 Defender integration to efficiently detect, review, and respond to incidents and alerts.