Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Reviews & Insights

We use Office 365 for all our sharing needs. We have SharePoint, we have various other apps like all the Office 365 apps and that's managed through our centralized CNR team and it also has Defender to protect all the employees accessing all the documents together.

For an organization like us, it's a big organization, roughly around 7,000 to 8,000 employees, and we have people working from anywhere in the world. We are a remote-first company, so everyone's accessing from their home environments of Office 365. Securely managing so many users and giving them a seamless experience is what I've seen this product is doing well. Area for improvement: sometimes setting off the links can be a pain, it can block certain links. When users do have access, it can cause some issues there.

In our company of ~2500 users, we use Microsoft Defender for Office 365 on a daily basis, or rather, every minute of the working day. This ranges from monitoring Microsoft Defender for Office 365 for Identity sensors and alerts, to managing blocked/allowed senders, removing email threats that got delivered to users, isolating high-risk devices, releasing emails from quarantine, and much more. Microsoft Defender for Office 365 also gives us insights of vulnerable software within our environment on servers and normal workstations, missing KB' for various CVE's, Alerts for suspicious activity or applications, as well as recommendations and possible solutions for other vulnerabilities found within our network. It integrates nicely with the rest of our domain applications, and we have automated sentinel alerts which triggers for various types of events that one needs to monitor. We have recently implemented MDI which is part of the offerings, and found it to be very useful in terms of monitoring logs and events, and sending alerts to the list of people specified in order for action to be taken. Features that are also very important include Company Secure Score, and exposure score, which provides you with detailed stats and analysis to see trends and do reporting on using PowerBI.

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is found to be well suited for our size company, and easily for smaller or larger companies as well. It does have a few places where improvements can be made, but at least it also asks you to provide feedback to Microsoft, which I have done with certain suggestions or complaints. However, overall it is a very thorough and useful tool when it comes to securing and defending yourself against trending threats.

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.

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I think the point of the product was to help our bank make sure that their data was protected. So setting up all the categorization, setting up all the rules, setting up the detection and ensuring that no data from the company leaked out from the bank.

I think in everybody using Office 365 using Azure makes a lot of sense. It's a no-brainer.

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.

It's well suited for people who need a one stopgap solution or need to stay in the Microsoft family. That's probably the most appropriate option; less appropriate is if you're on a tight budget, maybe, and you're like a smaller startup.

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.

It's well suited for our physical deployment of remote people and sort of a SaaS company. It exists in cyberspace, so that's really very constructive. Where it's not, these sort of very specific data sets and sort of identity protection for customers, it's not as useful and it may not be one of its core purposes, but we're trying to use it for that as well.

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.

So when, for example, if I change the device, then you have to set up everything right? Sometimes it's difficult to recover your data. Sometimes if you don't know your ID, you have to go to the admin person. You cannot do it by yourself. You have to go to the MSP person.

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.

This product suits small businesses, large organizations, and SEG L users. It would not be appropriate if you would like to use just one in-house software because, again, if you're not familiar with Microsoft, it won't; you can't integrate it that well.