You are a global administrator in a company with a Microsoft 365 subscription with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 license assigned to your users.
You want to protect your users from unintentionally opening malicious websites by clicking on harmful URLs.
What should you configure?
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A. B. C. D.Correct Answer: D
You should configure a Safe Links policy.
By enabling this feature Office 365 will protect your users by scanning the URL in inbound email messages and in other locations within Office 365
Safe Links are enabled in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, under Policies & Rules -> Threat Policies -> Policies -> Safe Links.
Option A is incorrect.
This policy protects against malware in attachments.
Option B is incorrect.
This policy protects against phishing attempts.
Option C is incorrect.
This policy protects against inbound and outbound spam in your organization.
To know more about configuring Safe Links policies, please refer to the link below:
The correct answer is D. Safe links policy.
Safe links is a feature of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 that provides URL protection for your organization. Safe links helps protect your users from clicking on malicious links in emails, documents, and other locations by providing URL scanning and rewriting.
When a user clicks on a link in an email or document, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 checks the link against a list of known malicious URLs. If the link is found to be malicious, the user is redirected to a warning page instead of the original destination.
To configure Safe links policy, you can use the Security & Compliance Center in Microsoft 365. Here are the steps to create a Safe links policy:
In conclusion, to protect your users from unintentionally opening malicious websites by clicking on harmful URLs, you should configure Safe links policy in Microsoft Defender for Office 365.