Microsoft Office 365 Security

In order to protect your IT systems, we are currently auditing your current 365 setup and implementing many improvements to your tenant.

These settings help protect your email, data and identity. We are ultimately trying to protect you from any financial loss due to scams.

Implemented in the first round of security updates are:

MFA
MFA number matching
Authentication methods
Audit logs
Connected applications
Contact settings
External sender tag
DKIM
OneDrive retention
Shared mailboxes
Inactive mailboxes
SharePoint permissions
External sharing
Guest permissions
PowerShell access
Block legacy applications
Login portal branding
Risky country blocking
Risky IP blocking

External email forwarding
Admin permissions

External sender tag

You will start to see emails originating from outside your organisation labelled with an “EXTERNAL” message.
This helps to quickly identify external emails that you should be wary of in regard to clicking on links etc.
To help stop scams, emails to your staff pretending to you will get tagged also.
Emails from co-workers won’t have this tag added.
This setting is recommended and is widely used worldwide.

If you prefer not to have this labelling occur, please let us know.

External email forwarding

If a hacker gains access to your email, then will forward your emails to an email address the control. This is so they can intercept your emails.
They do this to look for financial emails and then send fake invoices to your customers.
If you need to forward emails to an external email address please let us know.