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Securing Office 365™ With Symantec
Cloud? What’s this cloud you speak of? Of course you are moving to cloud. Everyone is moving to some form of cloud adoption today, it’s the new virtual frontier. But what type of security will you have in the cloud? What barriers can you setup to keep your data, emails, files and sharing environments safe? We all want to reap the benefits of simplicity and convenience of cloud applications like Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps, but are we giving enough thought to adding in the right levels of security? More often than not, that is the main thought process of IT professionals contemplating the move to cloud applications like Office 365. Let’s break it down and see how we can address this challenge into easy to implement aspects.
The first consideration is ensuring you have the ability to control yourcontent. How will you know if an employee is emailing confidential files that should be protected? By leveraging Symantec’s content-aware detection between your end-users and the cloud, you can safely monitor and detect any sensitive or confidential data that should be protected – before it ever leaves your environment. This enables you to take the right action at the right time, actions such as notifying users of policy violations before email is sent, encrypting email in transit, or blocking email in real-time to prevent the loss of sensitive data.
The second is maintaining secure access. The cloud, by definition, is outside the security of your enterprise so how do you keep your employee accounts safe from attackers? You want to ensure secure access, especially for remote users, but you also don’t want to eliminate the convenience factor that the cloud provides by making it too difficult for your legitimate employees to login. By employing Symantec’s strong authentication solution, you can take advantage of a number of options to validate the identity of the user – before they gain access to your cloud-based app. And you don’t need to give up convenience to add security, in fact, one of our authentication options doesn’t even require a password!
The last aspect is to block malware and spam. Attackers and spammers now use email as the #1 incursion vector to infiltrate your network and send unsolicited advertisements. Their attacks are constantly evolving in an attempt to circumvent your email security. Symantec’s solution employs advanced features such as Skeptic™ heuristic technology and Real-Time Link Following can thwart the newest types of attacks. You can rest assured knowing that malware is blocked before it can enter your Office 365 environment. When you take advantage of the technology that is available to you today you can remove the human “error” factor that criminals rely on to get their malware into your environment.
The bottom line is that convenience doesn’t have to be less secure and being secure doesn’t have to be inconvenient. You can have both so that you can leverage the benefits of Office 365 and your employees can work efficiently and comfortably. Symantec is a leader in security and we can help you get the most out of your Office 365 investment.
