In our last couple of blogs, we have discussed a number of exciting features, new add-ons and great flexibility to empower teamwork among employees. As MS Office 365 lets you work on shared documents over Cloud, security in your shared working environment becomes a strong focus.

Our modern-day work styles are attracting a large amount of cyber threats – from individual threats to sophisticated organizational breaches and massive cyber-attacks. With the growing complexity in the current work environment, cybercriminals have expended to a level where no single service can adequately protect an organization. To overcome the issue, organizations need complete security—Right from employee identities, enterprise applications to data, devices, and infrastructure. According to a popular forecast—Cyberattacks will likely cost $6 trillion worldwide by 2021. Microsoft Office 365 threat protection helps mitigate advanced threats by providing an end-to-end holistic solution to secure an organization from all of the potential threat factors, available on Cloud.

End to end security focus

Combined with a rich set of security features, MS Office Threat Protection stack provides more effective and efficient ways to enable detection and response to the cyber-attacks. Let’s understand how MS Office focuses on end-to-end security:

• Protection: Set up and configure Office 365’s security services against advanced threats before they impact your organization. Office 365 offers a rich, robust, comprehensive, and multi-layered solution to address cyber-attacks.
• Detection: In case a breach occurs, customers have visibility to all malicious emails that are targeted to the organization. They can even know when and where the breach has occurred, and which data is lost.
• Response: Remediate from an attack and return the organization to a ‘No-Threat’ state. Since Microsoft IT began leveraging Office 365 Threat Intelligence, cases throughout have increased 37 percent per month and the average time to resolve incidents have reduced by 80 percent.
• Remediate: You can also learn how to react or respond to different types of threats.

MS Office 365 Products That Can Mitigate Cyber Attacks

Get powerful protection against cyber threats with a range of popular MS Office 365 add-on features:

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• Microsoft Exchange Online Protection: It provides advanced security and reliability to protect your information while exchanging the online data.
• Get trusted, enterprise-grade threat protection: Did you know that in every 39 seconds cyber-attack or online threatening activities take place somewhere in the world? To protect yourself from being a victim of a hacker attack, you need trustworthy and tested protection for your organization’s digital environment. MS Office 365 threat-protection technologies help protect and provides visibility against spam, malware, viruses, phishing attempts, malicious links and other threats.
• Protect against spam and malware in emails: Get enterprise-class reliability and protect against spam, malware and many other known or unknown threats. whilst maintaining access to your email during or after emergencies.

• Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: It can help protect your mailboxes, files, online storage, and applications against new & sophisticated attacks in real time.
• Help defend against advanced email threats: Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) helps protect against sophisticated threats hidden in email attachments and it provides cutting-edge defenses against dangerous cyber activities. Rich reporting lets you investigate why ATP flagged a threat, and it gives you details about the users who received malicious emails and malicious links.

• Office 365 Cloud App Security: It gives insight into suspicious activity in Office 365 so you can investigate situations that are potentially problematic and, if needed, take action to address security issues.
• Enhance your visibility and control: Identify high-risk and abnormal usage, security incidents and evolving threats within your Office 365 environment and set up detailed anomaly-detection policies and controls with Office 365 Cloud App Security. Gain enhanced visibility into your Office 365 usage and uncover Shadow IT of cloud apps in your organization.

Drive Digital Transformation in Your Organisation with ICTechnology

With more than 100 million commercial monthly active users of Office 365, and more than 500 million Windows 10 devices in use, Microsoft is in a unique position to help companies empower their employees, unlocking business growth and innovation by setting up certain security standards.

So, are you ready to protect your information with MS Office 365? With a seamless experience across your workplace and infrastructure, MS office provides the new standard to get the work done and achieve more.

To implement MS Office 365 for your organizations and to enjoy these great features, contact us at ICTechnology, a leading managed service provider in Australia. All you need to do is fill this form and we will contact you. You can also call us directly at 1300-123-428.

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Since the beta version of MS Office 365, announced in October 2010, MS office has introduced a holistic workplace solution that empowers everyone to work together in a secure way. Currently, Microsoft office has grown by more than 100 percent and there are more than 135 million monthly commercial office 365 users enjoying its rich functionality.

IT directors, administrators, and CIOs managing enterprise set-ups, spanning multiple cities or countries need efficient and secure networks. It is true that larger organizations have more complex IT requirements compared to the small-to-medium businesses (SMB). However, this doesn’t mean that SMBs don’t need those set-ups. In most small companies or even 250 people, they may have one IT person to manage all network related issues around the office. You can imagine how efficient that would be especially keeping up with the changing technology or watching out for cyber-attacks.

2019 will be a year of Technology especially Cloud Services. This is the time to check and analyze your forthcoming business plans and set your New Year objectives. We are already running in the last semester of 2018. Businesses and top management IT executives are considering this on priority. In this article, we are introducing the list of top Cloud Computing trends that will be everywhere in 2019 and how they can help you accomplish your New Year goals and business growth plans.

MS Office 365 offers a centralized place to create, collaborate, communicate and get the work done. Since its beta version, announced in October 2010 and its first availability on 28 June 2011 to the current date, MS office 365 has brought the concept of “bring together” for existing online services into “an always-up-to-date cloud service” incorporating Exchange Server (for e-mail), SharePoint (for internal social networking, collaboration, and a public web site), and Lync (for communication, VoIP, and conferencing). Let’s dig deeper into how MS office 365 makes your job easier and help you achieve more in less time.

From Uber to Australian Defence and Aussie government banks, 2017 witnessed some biggest security lapses in the last decade. Read these highlights: (Source – As published in CRN News)

1. Uber disclosed in November that hackers had stolen information from up to 57 million rider and driver accounts last year in a massive data breach. The company paid the thieves US$100,000 in October 2016 to delete the data and keep quiet about the breach, according to a Bloomberg News report.
2. The personal details of 48,270 Australian government, banking and utility employees were exposed online by a third-party contractor.
3. An attack on a subcontractor to Australian Defence resulted in the loss of 30 GB of “commercially sensitive” documents. The highly sensitive documents included projects for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program and the P-8 Poseidon “submarine killer” plane and detailed designs of Australian Navy ships.

Cybercriminals do not care about the size of your business. They just look for two factors – Is there money? & How difficult is it to attack the victim’s system? This is where Kaspersky security software acts smart to fortify the cyber perimeter for your business protection. Following articles on Kaspersky anti-ransomware solution and Kaspersky endpoint security, in this article, I am going to discuss the features of Kaspersky Small Office Security.

In our previous article, we discussed Kaspersky Anti-ransomware solution for small businesses. As I mentioned – it is not a full-fledged version. For better protection and enhanced security, you need an advanced solution that can understand the critical endpoint security requirements of any business. Kaspersky Endpoint Security can be a perfect fit, especially for small and mid-size businesses. Be it a mobile device or file server, Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud will let you manage all security requirements remotely at any time.

From last couple of years, Anti-ransomware Solution is gaining popularity among cybercriminals primarily because of its capacity to restrict access to important files and sensitive data on a victim’s computer. We can’t forget Wannacry 2017 attack and how badly it exploited many businesses with malicious virus for numerous oganizations across the globe. One year has passed and we’re still in danger of ransomware attack. That’s why Kaspersky Lab has paid close attention to encryptors and decryptors. The experts are working really hard to develop specific tools to counter security threats.

Undoubtedly, Phishing Scam is the most sophisticated cyber-attack from the list of endless security threats. Although it may sound fairly simple, due to its legitimate appearance, it is one of the proven tactics adopted by hackers for duping a victim and capturing his private information. The attacker masquerades himself as a trusted entity that you may think is harmless, for instance; a request from his bank or a note from a company ID to click a link or download an attachment.