Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Score8.2 out of 10

32 Reviews and Ratings

What is Microsoft Defender for Office 365?

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a security solution used to protect Office 365 against advanced threats, such as phishing and business email compromise. It helps prevent volume-based and targeted attacks, including business email compromise, credential phishing, ransomware, and advanced malware with a robust filtering stack, as well as to detect malicious and suspicious content like links and files across Office 365.

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Casey Ryan

Director of Operations at WestPark Capital (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The scope is across all employees. We have a lot of BYOD devices, so bring your own devices is really the main use cases. Lots of remote offices, lots of home offices, so we use the vendor to secure all those devices that are connected to our network.

Pros

Deployment's really effective so we can get into our device as well. And generally it protects us from, I guess malware and viruses is the main thing. So I wouldn't put defenders. Sometimes we have trouble with email, but that's not really a vendor issue.

Cons

Probably functionality might be, cloud apps might be helpful if it could extend to applications that we're getting data from that aren't necessarily part of our environment or pulling data into our environment. So I guess that would be one thing.

Return on Investment

I think it's provided sort of core functionality that we wouldn't maybe have been able to deploy support on our own.

Angel Martinez

IT Supervisor in Information Technology at Rack (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the product to provide solution for business and for the end user of different departments. And the scope, it's going to depend which projects we are using that solution. And for some user and also for some countries because we are globally company.

Pros

I mean, Microsoft is a good tool. It's a good and helpful solution, and we leverage on all of their capabilities, I would say.

Cons

Well, we need to be integrated with other system because it doesn't have all the functionalities that we will like for the application or the tool. But yeah, it's okay because no one solution have everything not there.

Return on Investment

I would say it's positive at end kind of will be like what we really need or what the company is asking for or let's say this kind of business area.

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Kelland Goodin

Sales Engineer in Marketing at Darktrace (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's more like a backend passive tool in the way we use it on top of our own tool, so it's a nice multi-pronged approach. Again, this is for protecting our inbox and everything.

Pros

Generally, I see our product act on a bit first and before that, so that probably wouldn't be the best detail I could give, unfortunately.

Cons

No cons to really come up with.

Return on Investment

Wouldn't be able to tell you. That's me. More of our actual IT team. That'd be able to tell you more there, but no complaints on my end.

Sunil Patel

Product Support Engineer in Engineering at ELLKAY (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For authentication purposes, if there are any, we have contractors as well in our company. So we have limited exercise, so we have a certain area that only an assigned person can go into that area. Only for that access to the libraries we use this application.

Pros

It's authenticated, right? So without your approval it'll not go and without its acceptance you cannot enter. So it's both way, it's very secure.

Cons

I haven't experienced like that. It is very user friendly.

Return on Investment

The positive aspect is the security of the employees, security of the data. There is no breach I can say. So it is a good impact. I mean there is not any bad or negative impact.

Brittany Smith

Security Analyst in Information Technology at WGU (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I would implement this product for other organizations. I would solve their problems by presenting which solution Microsoft offers that would be the best for their organization. My scope would be small businesses.

Pros

This product is good with implementing and collaborating with other applications.

Cons

This product could be a bit easier to implement when there are problems. If you don't have specific Microsoft training, you will run into issues.

Return on Investment

It's positive because it helps scalability.

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