Introduction
Office 365 is Microsoft’s cloud solution for accessing email, calendar, and Microsoft office tools. Office 365 allows organizations to host their entire email architecture at an off-site location, and it allows Microsoft to manage all day-to-day aspects of your organization’s email.
Secure Email Gateway is a cloud-based secure email gateway. It is designed to eliminate spam and email borne malware for customers using cloud-hosted or on-premises mail servers.
This guide contains step-by-step instructions on how to integrate Office 365 with Secure Email Gateway. The guide assumes you have a functioning Office 365 deployment.
Advantages of Integrating Secure Email Gateway and Office 365
Moving your mail to a cloud solution like Office 365 brings a wide range of advantages and flexibility to an organization. Integrating your deployment with Secure Email Gateway will add the critical, enterprise-grade security required by such a cloud-deployment.
Xcitium Secure Email Gateway (CDAS) protects against targeted invasions using enhanced social engineering attack protection, web reputation, and detection engines. It also employs cloud-based threat analysis to block highly targeted email attacks by using exploit detection and Xcitium patented containment (sandboxing) technology. Integration of these components enables you to defend against advanced malware and targeted attacks.
Auto-containment
Xcitium's patented containment technology protects against malicious attachments without sacrificing user productivity. When an attachment is opened, it runs in the Xcitium container while the file is analyzed to determine whether or not it's safe. The file cannot access the host's resources or user data while it is in the container, so it can't damage or infect the endpoint.
Xcitium Reputation Network
Xcitium's comprehensive and highly accurate IP reputation system helps block malicious URLs embedded in emails.
Intelligent filtering
Secure Email Gateway uses a sophisticated array of spam filters, anti-virus scanners and content analysis engines to prevent unsolicited mail from ever entering your network. Featuring full integration with the Xcitium Valkyrie file verdict system, it delivers true enterprise-level security to cloud-based mail servers.
Ease of use
Advanced search options-including search on users or text in sender, receiver, subject, and other fields-make it easy to find emails in the archive. As with quarantined emails, you can take action on archived messages.
Adding Secure Email Gateway on top of Microsoft Office 365 offers enhanced security, especially with spear-phishing and targeted attack protection, providing you with an additional layer of security against advanced malware and zero-day exploits.