Get the most out of Advanced Email Security
Note: Advanced Email Security is only available in English. While the help articles are available in your local language, the product interface, functionality and outputs are exclusively in English.
Now that we include Advanced Email Security with every Microsoft 365 plan, you can confidently safeguard your email and help ensure a safe environment for your organization. Customize it to fit your specific needs and get the most out of its features.
Start by understanding the basics:
- What is Advanced Email Security?: Learn more about this add-on and how it protects and secures your email.
- Sign in to Advanced Email Security: Both users and admins can sign in to Advanced Email Security through the Email & Office Dashboard.
Explore these key topics (we highly recommend learning about these features!):
- Quarantined email: Review your quarantined email, and report any false positives and negatives.
- Quarantine digest: Receive a summary of quarantined messages via email.
- Spam settings: Customize when email is considered spam.
- Safe and blocked senders list: Control which senders can or cannot email your users.
- Email encryption: Protect outgoing email by encrypting them with [ENCRYPT] in the subject line.
- Email banners: Understand how users are alerted of potentially malicious email.
- Once you understand the different types of banners, customize them for your organization.
Advanced Email Security offers even more capabilities:
- Email filters: Use criteria, like the sender address, headers and content, to filter your messages.
- SMTP Discovery: Keep track of email addresses sending messages with your domain name that aren't added as users or functional accounts, like distribution groups and aliases.
- URL Defense: Automatically rewrite potentially dangerous links that are sent to your organization’s users.
- Emergency Inbox: Access your email when your inbox is unreachable.
- Custom branding and logo: Customize the appearance of your dashboard to match your brand.
Check out these articles from Advanced Email Security on other 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.
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