Improving email security in Microsoft 365: Five reasons

Microsoft 365 has many millions of users around the world, who leverage the platform to optimize efficiency and productivity. But this ubiquity has meant that cyber criminals have increasingly developed tactics and techniques that specifically target Microsoft 365 deployments. And native email security and data protection are not able or intended to keep up.

Even if you have solutions to augment Microsoft 365 email security, evolving cyber threat trends mean that you need to assess your potential vulnerabilities—and find ways to mitigate them. There are five reasons in particular that you may need to augment your email security for Microsoft 365—and they are the subject of an upcoming webinar every admin should attend.

Addressing threat trends

Attend this webinar featuring Barracuda’s email security marketing and product leads if you want to get all the info about new areas of attack and security needs—and about how to mitigate your vulnerabilities and accelerate your response to attack.

Join us and find out:

• Why data and email in Microsoft 365 may be more vulnerable to impersonation and business email compromise (BEC) attacks than you think

• How slow incident response processes harm your cyber resilience and enlarge the window of opportunity for malware or malicious links to be activated

• How a cobbled-together Microsoft 365 email protection infrastructure, using multiple vendors and solutions, can leave vulnerabilities exposed

Olesia and Reed will explain these threat trends in detail. And then they’ll talk about what you need to do to protect your organization. 

Understand your needs

The first step is to assess your specific email security gaps. And then you need to identify and implement strategies to mitigate them.

For example, if your organization is being heavily targeted with impersonation attacks, then you may be relying mostly on traditional email gateway security. Look for a solution that leverages AI to learn patterns and block both internal and external malicious emails, like Barracuda Email Protection. 

Another key capability to minimize risk is automated incident response. With just a few clicks, you can find and delete every instance of a reported email across all your Microsoft 365 mailboxes. Responding effectively in just seconds or minutes—as opposed to hours—dramatically reduces the risk of someone inadvertently triggering an attack. Not to mention it frees up your team to do other work.

At the webinar, you’ll also see why a comprehensive, full-featured platform like Barracuda Email Protection provides an integrated blanket of security for your Microsoft 365 email and data, by bringing together a complete set of security and data protection capabilities.

Attend the webinar to get the whole story and gain the insights you need to assess and address your Microsoft 365 security needs.