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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 explained

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 explained

What Defender for Office 365 adds on top of EOP — Safe Links, Safe Attachments, AIR, attack simulation — plus Plan 1 vs Plan 2 and the settings worth tuning.

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What does Defender for Office 365 add to Exchange Online Protection?

Safe Links (URL rewriting and time-of-click checks), Safe Attachments (detonation in a sandbox), impersonation protection for users and domains, attack simulation training, and in Plan 2 automated investigation and resp…

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Is Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 or Plan 2 in my licence?

Plan 1 is in Business Premium; Plan 2 is in Microsoft 365 E5 and E5 Security. E3 and Office 365 E3 include only Exchange Online Protection; Defender for Office 365 is an add-on there.

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Does Defender for Office 365 protect Teams and SharePoint?

Yes — Safe Links applies to Teams messages and Office documents, Safe Attachments for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams scans files at rest, and Teams message reporting and quarantine feed the same investigation tools.

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