Problem with Microsoft ATP’s Phishing Detection which Put Users at Risk In this cyber world, hackers are attacking on the users through various ways. Today, Email attacks are growing on a rapid pace like phishing attacks, ransomware and insider risks etc. Now, many businesses are moving to cloud based email platforms like Office 365,to mitigate the risks of these attacks. Famous email security technology is Microsoft’s own Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) solution. It filters the unknown malware and phishing attacks in real time. You can install MS Office through office.com/setup. But some of the organizations have reporting issues with Office 365’s phishing detection which is putting users at risk. In this blog, you will read the problems with Office 365’s phishing detection, and also the solutions how you can protect your organizations against them.
Microsoft Office 365 Advanced Threat Protections: It is a cloud-based email filtering solution for Office 365, which is developed by Microsoft. It stops the malicious phishing emails, links and attachments. ATP feature is available in Office 365 Enterprise E5, Education AT and also in Microsoft 365 Business Premium. You can also purchase this add-on module for other O365 plans. Microsoft ATP is basically designed for business users just to protect them from phishing attacks.
The Benefits of Microsoft ATP: ATP’s Safe Links safeguards your device against malicious URLs in emails, Office documents, OneDrive attachments and also in Microsoft Teams. ATP’s Safe Attachments prevent unknown malware and viruses with sandboxing. ATP uses machine learning to detect the malicious attachments which do not have a known signature. Microsoft solution, ATP integrates with the Office 365 and so that is why there is no need to configure any third party solutions. Problem With Microsoft ATP: In spite of all these benefits, Microsoft ATP is not perfect because it is found that malicious email with targeted phishing, are delivered to user inboxes. This puts a great risk for the employees and customers as hackers can easily steal their data. ATP is launched in 2015, so it has less experience than other security solutions. Some of the experts also found that the emails which ATP classified as malicious, in reality they are safe emails which have been misclassified. The emails which they quarantine are marketing emails, newsletters, subscriptions but some of the users wanted to see these mails. ATP actually gives three main options for malicious emails like allow all to be delivered, quarantine everything suspected to be malicious, or send suspected malicious emails to junk. Read Also – Insert Tick or Cross Symbol in MS Word and Excel If you allow malicious emails to be delivered means genuine emails which is by mistake listed as malicious will be received. But it is possible that malicious emails can be opened by users, and will put the user at risk. Quarantining all emails will also create a problem, because genuine emails can also be quarantined by mistake. Sending malicious emails to junk. This also creates a problem for the users, as they have to look for the genuine emails themselves. ATP not properly stops phishing. If you want more information, you can visit to the site of MS Office via www.office.com/setup.