Description #

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 seamlessly integrates with your Office 365 subscription to safeguard against threats present in emails, URLs, attachments, and collaboration tools. It offers robust investigation, hunting, and remediation capabilities, streamlining security teams' efforts to efficiently detect, prioritize, investigate, and respond to security threats. Defender for Office 365 empowers administrators and SecOps teams with a wide array of features, ensuring organizations are shielded from malicious threats. These benefits extend to users, administrators, and security operations personnel right from the organization's outset.

IT Partner responsibilities #

1. Manage licenses and subscriptions to ensure your organization possesses the correct Microsoft Defender for Office 365 licenses and subscriptions.
2. Perform the initial setup for Microsoft Defender for Office 365, including defining policies and default settings such as anti-phishing, anti-malware, and anti-spam.
3. Customize security settings to suit your unique requirements, such as handling specific content or types of email.
4. Conduct rigorous testing to verify system functionality and perform potential attack simulations to evaluate system responsiveness.
5. Ensure seamless integration with other security systems and tools in your IT environment to create a comprehensive security framework.
6. Set up monitoring and alert systems to closely observe security events, including phishing attempts, malware detections, and suspicious activity.
7. Ensure implementation adheres to industry standards and regulations for Compliance and Reporting.

Client responsibilities #

1. Provide a dedicated point of contact responsible for working with IT Partner.
2. Coordinate any outside vendor resources and schedules.

Prerequisites #

1. Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 or Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 license for all users.
2. Global administrator account in the tenant.

Plan #

1. Kickoff meeting.
2. Pre-Implementation Preparation.
3. Define Objectives.
4. Configuration and Setup.
5. Customization and Integration.
6. Testing and Validation.
7. Monitoring and Alert Management.
8. Incident Response Plan.
9. Post-Implementation Review.

Success criteria #

1. Requirements collected and documented.
2. All specified Security policies are configured and active, enhancing email and collaboration protection.
3. Comprehensive testing has been carried out, validating the system's readiness to guard against threats.
4. Proactive monitoring and alert systems are in place to swiftly identify and respond to security incidents, enhancing overall email security.