Microsoft Defender for Office 365
Help secure your email and Microsoft Teams with advanced protection against phishing, business email compromise, ransomware, and other threats.
SE Labs names Defender for Office 365 “Best Email Security Service”
Defender for Office 365 was recognized as “Best Email Security Service” of 2023 by SE Labs.
Integrated threat protection for your email and collaboration tools
Strengthen email security without compromise
Help protect your organization against advanced attacks, such as BEC, with native email security that automatically stops attack progression and boosts SecOps productivity.
Get comprehensive security for collaboration tools
Defend against emerging phishing attacks that target collaboration tools by protecting your Microsoft Teams environment with a unified detection and response experience.
Enhance security with industry-leading AI and automation
Get unparalleled accuracy with AI-enabled detection capabilities. Gain a better understanding of your organization's threat landscape and vulnerabilities with advanced analytics and automated workflows.
Defend against advanced attacks with XDR
Combat sophisticated attacks using email and collaboration signals as part of your detection and response in Microsoft 365 Defender. Use incident-based detections to hunt across the entire kill chain.
Capabilities
Prevention
Help prevent a wide variety of volume-based and targeted attacks, including business email compromise, credential phishing, ransomware, and advanced malware with a robust filtering stack.
Detection
Automatically detect malicious and suspicious content, such as links and files across email and Microsoft Teams, with industry-leading AI capabilities.
Investigation and hunting
Detect and respond to attacks with a unified investigation experience, full kill-chain visibility, and advanced hunting capabilities to identify and prioritize threats.
Response and remediation
Respond and remediate incidents with built-in automation that reverses malicious activities and custom setups that enable security teams to scale and be more efficient.
Awareness and training
Run attack simulations and train your users with data-driven insights on the most common attacks and knowledge gaps specific to your organization.
Secure posture
Use recommended templates and configuration insights to help your organization get and stay secure.
Integrated threat protection with SIEM and XDR
Empower your defenders to effectively secure your digital estate by combining extended detection and response (XDR) and security information and event management (SIEM).
Microsoft 365 Defender
Get unified security and visibility across endpoints, identities, emails, and cloud apps with an industry-leading XDR solution.
Microsoft Sentinel
Aggregate security data and correlate alerts from virtually any source with cloud-native SIEM from Microsoft.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Protect your multicloud and hybrid cloud workloads with built-in XDR capabilities.
A holistic view of threat protection
Defender for Office 365 supports organizations throughout the lifecycle of an attack.
Industry recognition
Microsoft Security is a recognized industry leader.
The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Email Security
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Email Security, Q2 2023.1
SE Labs: Best Email Security Service
Defender for Office 365 was recognized by SE Labs as the “Best Email Security Service” in 2023.
See how customers implement Defender for Office 365
St. Luke’s University Health Network
See why St Luke’s University Health Network moved from Proofpoint to Defender for Office 365.
bp
Read how bp is bolstering its resilience against phishing campaigns with Microsoft Defender for Office 365.
Compare flexible purchase options
Explore the comprehensive security capabilities offered by Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2. These capabilities are also included in Microsoft 365 E5 Security.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (Plan 1)
Originally starting from $2.00 now starting from $2.00
$2.00 $2.00
user/month
Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 offers protection against advanced attacks across email and collaboration tools in Office 365.
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Protection against advanced attacks, such as phishing, malware, spam, and business email compromise
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Protection beyond email (Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Office apps)
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Internal email protection
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Detailed reporting
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (Plan 2)
Originally starting from $5.00 now starting from $5.00
$5.00 $5.00
user/month
Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 offers everything in Plan 1 plus advanced threat hunting, automation, attack simulation training, and cross-domain XDR capabilities.
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Protection against advanced attacks, such as phishing, malware, spam, and business email compromise
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Protection beyond email (Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Office apps)
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Internal email protection
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Detailed reporting
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Advanced threat hunting
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Automated investigation and response
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Attack simulation training
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Microsoft 365 Defender (XDR) capabilities, such as cross-domain hunting and incident correlation
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- [1] The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Email Security, Q2 2023. Jess Burn. June 12, 2023.
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