Now that businesses across the country (and the globe) are working entirely from home, email is more pivotal to communication than ever. However, it also means there are increased security risks that your business and employees could face as a result of this increased online presence.
How can you guarantee that your email service will remain safe and functional so your business can keep working?
Business leaders like you want a simple and secure way to manage email for their company—and Microsoft’s Modern Office suite provides just that. Their Exchange Online Protection and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 services secure your email and prevent attacks and safety breaches before they can do damage.
In this guide, we’re going to take you through those services’ most important features, how they benefit and protect your business, and how WheelHouse IT’s team of experts can help you get started.
Together, we can ensure your email security remains intact and strong.
What Are Modern Office’s Email Security Features?
Modern Office’s email security features (formally called Exchange Online Protection) provide protection across Microsoft’s global network of data centers. This layer of protection helps make messaging environment administration easy and secure.
Here are Exchange Online Protection’s main features for email security.
Constant Threat Elimination
With Modern Office’s email security measures, you will eliminate threats before they reach your corporate firewall. This defense is multi-layered, with real-time anti-spam and multi-engine anti-malware protection to ensure that nothing sneaks onto your servers. Learn more about how WheelHouse IT’s security and compliance services keep your business protected at every layer.
Security Administration Made Simple
Exchange Online Protection also allows you to manage your security from a web-based interface called the Exchange Administration Center. This means you don’t have to use multiple programs or applications. You can see everything you need in one interface.
Content Filtering Capabilities
With active content, connection, and policy-based filters available, you can control what gets through and what doesn’t. This feature also allows compliance with any corporate policies and government regulations to which your business adheres. For regulated industries like healthcare and legal, these controls can be a critical part of your HIPAA compliance strategy.
Easy to Get Started
There is no hardware or software to install, manage, or maintain, meaning you don’t have to wait long to get your security up and running. It also minimizes your upfront investment, which is crucial for businesses looking to reduce or eliminate high spending. WheelHouse IT’s Microsoft 365 for Business services make the onboarding process even faster.
Advanced IP Security Measures
Exchange Online Protection also protects your company’s IP integrity by utilizing separate outbound delivery pools for high-risk emails. This way, any potential malware or spam threats won’t find their way back to your IP address.
Fast and Accurate Reporting
With the capabilities for real-time reporting and message tracing, Exchange Online Protection can provide email environment insights by reviewing the status of any message that the service processes. This means you can see email security results fast. Pair this visibility with WheelHouse IT’s proprietary monitoring platform for a complete picture of your IT environment around the clock.
Around-the-Clock Support
This email protection service offers IT-level phone support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year—all at no additional cost. This way, you can deal with issues whenever they arise. WheelHouse IT complements this with our own internal NOC team providing 24/7 proactive monitoring so issues are caught before they become outages.
How Do These Email Security Features Benefit Your Business?
As businesses all around the world continue to work remotely, email remains the main method of communication for many companies. As such, you want to make sure that your communications and servers are as secure as possible.
Modern Office and Exchange Online Protection provide enterprise-class reliability and protection against spam and malware, all while ensuring you maintain access to email services during (and after) emergencies. For businesses that handle sensitive client data—whether in healthcare, legal, or financial services—a breach of email security can mean far more than downtime. It can mean regulatory penalties, lost clients, and lasting reputational damage.
As we all navigate this online workspace, there are going to be issues, emergencies, and confusion with services like email. However, Exchange Online Protection and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 give you the tools and support your business needs to remain functional, productive, and secure. Pairing these tools with WheelHouse IT’s email encryption services adds another critical layer of protection for sensitive communications.
How Can WheelHouse IT Help Your Business Implement Modern Office Email Security?
At WheelHouse IT, we want to see your business succeed in these uncertain times (and beyond). We have a dedicated and experienced team of managed IT professionals who can help you navigate this new, modern workplace and help you implement Microsoft Modern Office, Exchange Online Protection, and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 for your business as you continue to work from home.
WheelHouse IT is a certified Microsoft partner with deep experience across the full Microsoft Modern Workplace stack. Our team has completed 500+ migrations and holds SOC 2 Type I certification—meaning the security controls we implement for clients are the same ones we hold ourselves accountable to.
Work with a team that is knowledgeable and has experience with Modern Office by getting in touch with us today. Exchange Online Protection for email security is the most secure and reliable platform for effectively monitoring, protecting, and managing your business’s email services as you continue to work remotely—and WheelHouse IT has the experts to help you implement it effectively.
Let’s work together to make sure your business remains as effective, productive, and secure as possible.
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