M365 - Exchange Online Center

I had an interesting discussion recently with a customer about email encryption in Office 365. The customer wanted to know the pros and cons of each encryption option in Office 365.  This customer’s main goal was encrypting email messages so Microsoft can’t access them. Here's a summary of the different encryption options in Office 365, and how to encrypt your data (and why you would want to) so Microsoft can’t access it inside Office 365.

With the increasing number of services and features in Office 365, keeping up with all the changes can be a challenge. Keeping an eye on all the different ways a user can do harm, either willingly or by mistake, is not an easy task, either. While the on-premises versions of Exchange and SharePoint do offer some form of auditing, many organizations were surprised to find out that things were quite different after their move to the cloud.

Phishing attacks are ever more common for all email users. These attacks can target organizations or individual users.. Most phishing emails are easy to spot, but even the savviest of us can be caught off guard, and when a user ends up clicking on a dangerous link in an email message, then suddenly a bunch of servers start getting encrypted and your whole weekend is ruined. In an attempt to help reduce this problem, Microsoft is currently rolling out email safety tips as part of Exchange Online Protection in Office 365.

Office 365 is a collection of online services that allow organizations to use Exchange, Skype for Business, and SharePoint in the cloud. In the nearly five years that Office 365 has been available most of the organizations using Office 365 have used it just like that; for Exchange or Skype for Business or SharePoint in the cloud. Some organizations are using more than one of those services, but for the most part they are still using them separately.