Security News > 2021 > July > Microsoft adds Safe Links phishing protection to Microsoft Teams

Microsoft has extendend the phishing protection offered by Microsoft Defender for Office 365's Safe Links feature to Microsoft Teams.

On Monday, the company announced that the Safe Links feature will now be available for Microsoft Teams - if the customers also use Microsoft Defender for Office 365.

Safe Links has been a critical feature in Defender for Office 365 since its introduction in 2015, Chander said, and Microsoft's detonation systems "Detect close to 2 million distinct URL-based payloads that attackers create to orchestrate credential phishing campaigns".

"At the time the email is received by your organization, the link appears to be harmless, and so the mail is delivered. With time of click inspection Safe Links would have checked the link on delivery, and ensured that whenever the link is clicked it is redirected and inspected. If the link is malicious, the user is prevented from accessing the site, and if the link is harmless, the user is allowed to continue."

Such links may also be sent via conversations, group chats, and channels in Microsoft Teams, as well as included in documents shared via those.

To use Safe Links, enterprise admins must configure a Safe Links policy in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.

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