{"id":8662,"date":"2022-04-12T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intelliworx.wpenginepowered.com\/uk\/?p=8092"},"modified":"2025-03-31T08:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T08:19:20","slug":"security-and-compliance-in-microsoft-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intelliworx.co\/uk\/blog\/security-and-compliance-in-microsoft-365\/","title":{"rendered":"Security and compliance in Microsoft 365"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peoplemanagement.co.uk\/article\/1745148\/two-in-five-employers-will-embrace-hybrid-working-poll-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">increased shift to remote and hybrid work models<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, businesses have come to rely heavily on cloud storage and computing solutions, as well software-as-a-service platforms such as Microsoft 365.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to its mobility and collaboration features, Microsoft 365 is a popular choice for businesses. However, in a cloud-based environment, security and data compliance becomes more of a concern. The challenges of effective and efficient data protection for your organisation can be overcome with the built-in capabilities and controls of Microsoft 365 to meet security and compliance standards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft 365, formerly known as Office 365, is one of the most widely used productivity suites in the world. Many companies enjoy <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/intelliworx.co\/uk\/blog\/benefits-of-using-microsoft-365-for-your-business\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the benefits of Microsoft 365<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and there are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/microsoft-teams-hits-250-million-monthly-active-user-milestone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">over 250 million monthly active Microsoft Teams users<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Microsoft 365 is a powerful platform that enhances productivity and collaboration, and robust security capabilities such as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/intelliworx.co\/uk\/blog\/what-is-identity-and-access-management\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">identity and access management<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, threat protection, information protection, and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft 365 security and compliance<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Robust security is vital to protect your organisation\u2019s critical data, and to ensure your business meets the necessary and sometimes mandatory compliance regulations. Data compliance regulations set out by corporate governance, industry organisations, and governments protect sensitive data through protocols that dictate data use and storage requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the sheer volume of data businesses collect can make it difficult and time-consuming to achieve compliance. It&#8217;s an essential part of safeguarding your digital assets and ensuring that your business abides by the relevant UK and international laws. Fortunately, Microsoft has created specialised workspaces for security and compliance teams that offer centralised management across Microsoft 365 services, to ensure your business meets these security and data compliance regulatory requirements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Secure communication ensures that your company&#8217;s communications and critical data stay secure, with threat protection and data loss prevention capabilities across email exchanges, chat clients, shared files, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Native security modules, features, and functions in the Microsoft Office 365 Security and Compliance suite work seamlessly with Microsoft&#8217;s many business products and services.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Investigation and response provide security teams with the ability to view cyber threat intelligence data, and then turn it into automated threat mitigation efforts to avert incoming attacks.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8860\" src=\"https:\/\/intelliworx.co\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/04\/data-compliance.jpg\" alt=\"data-compliance\" width=\"800\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intelliworx.co\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/04\/data-compliance.jpg 800w, https:\/\/intelliworx.co\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/04\/data-compliance-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft 365 Security Center<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Microsoft 365 Security Center is the centralised hub for monitoring and managing security across all data, devices, apps and infrastructure. It provides security administrators and risk management professionals with the ability to manage Microsoft 365 advanced security solutions and enables organisations to perform security risk assessments by providing tools to assess their current and historical security postures and enhance vulnerability management.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft 365 security features are based on four main pillars:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Identity and access management: shield your information and reduce the risk of login attempts by providing authentication tools like strong passwords, two-factor authentication, single sign-on (SSO) and more. It also grants you access to resources based on what role or department you are in.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Threat protection: includes integrated, automated security solutions that help keep your email, data and other files safe from cyberthreats.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Information Protection: helps you find, organise and protect your company&#8217;s sensitive information across clouds, apps and endpoints. This helps you to know where your data is to better prevent it from getting lost or breached.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Security and risk management: protect your organisation\u2019s critical data by quickly identifying and mitigating risks from both malicious and unintentional activities.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft Compliance Center<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today the biggest concern most businesses utilising the cloud have is meeting compliance requirements. Businesses that are lax with data privacy, security and protection regulations can face severe penalties. Businesses that work with information covered by enforced standards or regulations need to continually assess how well they comply with these regulations and what actions they should take to stay compliant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft has combined all compliance features into the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center to fulfil your legal, regulatory and technical requirements. The Microsoft Compliance Manager helps you to assess compliance risk, provide workflows for defining controls, and stay on top of data privacy and information security needs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It makes meeting compliance requirements seamless with information governance and records management, inventory services, up-to-date regulations, certifications reports, and ensures your business is audit-ready with all the details in one place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft 365 helps businesses to be more creative and productive, collaborate with others and stay connected. Managing your business security and compliance doesn\u2019t have to be complex. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/intelliworx.co\/uk\/microsoft\/microsoft-365\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The certified experts from INTELLIWORX<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can ensure your business gets the most from your Microsoft 365 plan while staying secure and compliant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security and compliance are top priorities for organizations. 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