Get the most out of Advanced Email Security
Now that you have Advanced Email Security on your Microsoft 365 mailbox, customize it to fit your needs.
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We recommend learning about and using the following features to get the most out of Advanced Email Security:
- Email encryption: Encrypt your outgoing emails by adding [ENCRYPT] to the subject line.
- Email banners: Change how and when a user is notified of a potentially malicious email.
- Spam settings: Choose when your email is determined to be spam.
- Email filters: Filter your messages using details like the sender address, headers and even content.
- Safe and blocked senders list: Allow or deny specific senders to send emails to your users.
- Quarantined email: Review your quarantined emails and report false positives and negatives.
- Quarantine digest: Receive a summary of quarantined messages via email.
- SMTP Discovery: Monitor email addresses that are sending mail with your domain name, but aren't added as users or functional accounts, like distribution groups and aliases.
- URL Defense: Rewrite potentially harmful links that are sent to the users in your organization.
- Emergency Inbox: Access your email when your inbox is unreachable.
- Custom branding and logo: Customize your dashboard to match your brand.
Here are a few articles from Advanced Email Security on other available features.
- Attachment Defense: Remove any potentially harmful attachments from incoming emails.
- Spooling alerts: Receive notifications of failed email delivery to specific users.
- Anti-spoofing policies: Protect your users from receiving emails from malicious senders.