Microsoft 365 now has more control over outgoing emails.
We all know the feeling when we press send on an email and then realize we shouldn’t have sent it. Yeah, that’s what I am talking about. Many of us dread when we send emails to the wrong person. Microsoft is coming to our rescue by giving control to our bosses.
Microsoft has announced a new Office 365 feature that allows administrators to ban users from sending emails to blocked addresses. With this new feature, our boss can stop us from sending emails to people.
Previously, the Tenant Allow Block List function could only block users from getting emails from specific senders.
The company plans to begin reviewing this update in July. This feature will be available in the same month.
The evolution of Office 365
This isn’t the only feature promising greater security that Microsoft has been able to bring out to its Teams productivity suite in recent months. With phishing attacks, a common prevalent threat; hackers are still circumventing antivirus protection and committing identity theft.
In order to ensure the integrity of communications coming in and out, the business implemented a new security layer to the Office 365 email service.
Microsoft claims that the new SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS) protection, which is initially introduced in H2 2020. It will fix issues such as expired TLS certificates, issues with third-party certificates, and unsupported secure protocols.
It’s easy to see why Microsoft would want to tighten up the security of its email services. According to a recent BitDam study Microsoft may be even more vulnerable to email-based attacks than previously thought. As it has been established that malicious files routinely bypass many ostensibly top email security solutions.
The introduction of this new feature is evident that Microsoft is taking another step in the right direction to protect the security infrastructure for its users.
