How Microsoft 365 Helps Secure

Your Business
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Table of contents

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Protect data across all Classify data and help Protect against external
devices prevent leaks threats

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Securely preserve and Microsoft 365: Keep your
access your data business productive and
secure
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Introduction You have goals for your business. Whether

they are related to growth or efficiency, there
are security threats that put your goals at risk.
You need simple, effective tools that help keep
your business both productive and secure.

Small to medium-size businesses have unique

needs. You and your employees access your
business data on a variety of devices that need
to be secured. You have to be able to protect
your customers’ data. Perhaps you worry about
how to defend against cyberattacks and how to
safely store your business information.

Harness the power of intelligent security to

proactively protect your business. Microsoft
365 delivers the tools you need to reach your
goals with peace of mind.

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01.
You and your co-workers are working on
different devices – PCs and Macs as well as
phones and tablets. Occasionally, someone
loses theirs or it’s stolen. Sometimes you need

Protect data to clear a former employee’s device of your

business data.

across all devices Microsoft 365 helps keep your data secure
– and helps you manage access – on both
personal and business-owned devices.
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Here’s how Security policies, like device-level PIN lock and jailbreak detection,
can be set to help prevent unauthorised users from accessing
it works corporate email and data on a device if it’s lost or stolen.

Microsoft 365 corporate email and documents can be accessed

on employee-owned devices only while they are being managed
by your business and compliant with your IT policies.

Mobile device management (MDM) from Intune ensures that

mobile devices are up to date, with secure access to email,
documents and other resources.

Microsoft 365 Easily set up and manage user access to company data
across employee and company devices.
helps you easily
secure devices Get built-in mobile device management for Microsoft 365
data across iOS and Android devices.

Remotely wipe Microsoft 365 data from employee devices

if they are lost or stolen, or when an employee leaves the
company, while leaving their personal data in place.

Customise security policies for each person and device to set

the right level of protection for your data.
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02.
Data privacy is at the forefront of people’s
minds these days, including your customers.
You need a comprehensive solution to help
secure your email, documents, transactions

Classify data and

and sensitive data that you share outside
your company walls.

help prevent leaks It’s important for your business to

protect sensitive information and prevent
unauthorised disclosure. For example, maybe
you’re required to secure financial data or
personally identifiable information (PII), such
as credit card numbers, National Insurance
numbers or health records.

Microsoft 365 gives you data protection

at all times, no matter where the data is
stored or who it’s shared with.
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Here’s how Microsoft 365 helps safeguard business data by classifying,

labelling and protecting documents and emails. It also makes
it works it easy to create a data loss prevention (DLP) policy, which helps
identify, monitor and shield sensitive information while assisting
in meeting compliance standards.

Access to business information is easily controlled by using security

groups and customisable permissions. Users can add an additional
layer of protection by providing a PIN or fingerprint to access
business documents and data.

Microsoft 365 Helps prevent sensitive information, like National Insurance

numbers and credit card numbers, from leaking outside your
protects your business

information Lets you easily configure policies to classify, label and

protect data based on its sensitivity

Provides persistent protection that follows your data

everywhere

Enables you to share documents and emails so that

only those with the right permissions, including employees,
customers, suppliers and partners, can access the information

Makes it easy to create password policies that require users

to reset their passwords after a specified number of days
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03.
You’re worried that someone who works for you
will open an email containing malware that will
infect your system. How do you secure your
email, files, data and devices against unknown

Protect against
and sophisticated intrusions?

external threats Microsoft 365 helps protect against external

attacks, including phishing, malware, ransomware
and zero-day exploits. It improves your security
with cloud-based services and teams of experts
that work to protect you against cyberattacks.
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Here’s how Microsoft 365 includes Advanced Threat Protection (ATP),

an advanced cloud-based email filtering service that helps
it works protect against unknown malware and viruses. ATP includes
features to safeguard your business from harmful attachments
and links in real time.

Microsoft 365 also protects your devices from viruses, malware

and spyware by enforcing Windows Defender protection for
all Windows 10 PCs. Windows Defender uses real-time
protection to scan apps and websites.

Microsoft 365 Scans email attachments with sophisticated techniques

that detect new types of malware
is proactive
Helps protect against phishing and malware by
automatically checking links in emails and documents in
real time

Helps you apply policies that ensure Windows Defender

is scanning all Windows 10 PCs in your business

Makes sure devices are configured consistently to help

ensure that data and devices are protected
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04.
A past project has resurfaced, and you need
to access all related information. Microsoft 365
helps you secure, preserve and access your data
from any device, with unlimited cloud archiving

Securely
and long-term safe preservation policies.

preserve and
access your data
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Here’s how If your business ever faces a reasonable expectation of litigation,

you’re required to preserve electronically stored information (ESI),
it works including email and documents relevant to the case. Microsoft 365
helps keep you in compliance without impacting productivity.

Exchange Online Archiving creates a cloud-based archive mailbox

alongside your primary mailbox folders and it can be accessed and
searched just like a primary mailbox. Content beyond emails can be
easily preserved, including from Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and
OneDrive. eDiscovery gives you the ability to search for and export
the relevant content.

Microsoft 365 Helps protect archived mailboxes with advanced,

dependable physical and digital security measures
stores your data
safely Enables you to host your archives on trusted Microsoft
servers while maintaining control over your environment

Keeps users productive with easy-to-use, business-class

archiving
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05.
Since 58% of cyberattack victims are
categorised as small businesses,1 it’s
not surprising that many business owners
have identified cybersecurity as a priority.

Microsoft Gain peace of mind by protecting your

365: Keep business in an integrated, simplified way. With

just a single subscription, Microsoft 365 gives

your business you a layered approach to security that helps:

productive and Safeguard data across devices and apps.

secure Prevent intentional and unintentional

data leaks.

Protect your business from threats, especially

external cyberattacks.

Preserve data securely so you can access it

anytime, including for compliance reasons.

Whether you’re a business of one or of

hundreds, the comprehensive security
provided by Microsoft 365 can support
your business at every stage of your growth.

1
Verizon, 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report, 2019.
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