Key features of Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 protects your cloud-oriented enterprise communication and collaboration apps (Microsoft Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams) from known and unknown cyberthreats.

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 advantages

While Microsoft's default, built-in security controls provide only a basic level of security, Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 deals with known, unknown and advanced threats, including Business Email Compromise (BEC) - one of the most financially damaging online crimes aiming at commercial, government and non-profit organizations. Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 uses the following emerging technologies to protect cloud-oriented enterprises from ransomware, malicious attachments, spam, phishing, and other threats:

• A signature-based protection using machine learning (AutoPhiT) along with advanced heuristic and behavioural analysis.
• A combination of SPF (Sender Policy Framework), DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail), DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance) email validation, and lookalike detection method is used to detect and prevent email spoofing and phishing, BEC attacks and spam.
• Deep Quarantine - heuristics activity is improved using deep learning neural networks.
• Protection from mailsploit/ghost spoofing and code injection attacks that become possible due to mail clients bugs.
• IP reputation - a better way to detect spam on the IP level.
• Data Discovery - sharing of confidential text or image data stored and transmitted within and beyond your organization is traced, so you can consider actions to prevent the possible leakage.

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 special features

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 has the following special features available while protecting the Microsoft Office 365 services:

• Microsoft Exchange Online

  Your incoming and outgoing email messages are automatically scanned for viruses, Trojans, and other types of malware and ransomware that can be transmitted by email. Your organization is protected from unsolicited mail (spam), mass mail, list linking, phishing, spoofing, conversation hijacking and BEC attacks. Nevertheless, you can configure your own allowlists for safe senders and use the denylist option for known unwanted addresses. You can effectively filter unnecessary attachments in the email messages using specific criteria. At that, on-demand scan is also available, and you should use it right after you migrate to Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 — this feature eliminates targeted email threats that your mailboxes might have been exposed to even before Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 was activated.

• Microsoft OneDrive

  Multilayered threat detection ensures protection of your OneDrive files from viruses, worms, Trojans, ransomware and other malware by means of a configurable security policy.

• Microsoft SharePoint Online

  You can configure advanced scanning of your SharePoint Online sites for infected files.

• Microsoft Teams

  Files transmitted via Microsoft Teams are scanned for malware according to the protection settings configured for your OneDrive and SharePoint Online services.

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 common features

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 has the following common features available while protecting the Microsoft Office 365 services mentioned above:

• Viewing the statistics

  You can view the application current state and detection statistics by means of an accessible dashboard including daily charts and diagrams in the browser window.

• Management

  Manage the application settings in Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 through the Management Console. Choose what and how to protect. Use pre-configured security policies or configure the security levels individually.

• Quarantine

  Infected messages and files are moved by Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 to Quarantine to prevent infection. Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 provides a common view for items located in Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 Quarantine and Exchange Online Quarantine, thus allowing you to review all the detections made by Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 and default Microsoft security. At that, you can locate, download or release selected items if necessary.

• Reporting

  You can generate scheduled reports on the detections made by Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 during certain periods. At that, Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 provides timely notifications about detections of files and messages that contain malicious objects.

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 licensing

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 provides trial and commercial licensing:

• Try it for free

  When you create your account on Kaspersky Business Hub portal, you are given a trial license that allows you to protect 1000 Exchange Online mailboxes and 1000 OneDrive users for 30 days.

• Purchase a commercial license

  The price of a commercial Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 license depends on the number of protected objects only. For example, if you have an organization that comprises 100 licensed Office 365 mailboxes and 80 OneDrive users, you should buy a license for 100 mailboxes. At that, resource mailboxes, room mailboxes, and shared mailboxes without an Office 365 license do not require a Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 license. The number of protected SharePoint Online sites is not limited by the license.

  Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 provides two types of commercial licenses:

  • Annual license – for 1, 2 or 3 years.
  • Subscription license – a monthly license, which provides a possibility to change the number of protected objects flexibly at any moment of license term.

MSP support

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 offers great opportunities for management service providers: you can easily manage numbers of clients via single account using Kaspersky Business Hub portal where you can manage your company workspaces for Kaspersky software solutions.