Once written off as a failed CMS incapable of generating a significant user base, Microsoft’s SharePoint has continually defied expectations to become one of the most widely-used ECM and Collaboration products ever. It caters to over 200 million users and 250,000 organizations, including 85% of Fortune 500 companies. SharePoint is a user-friendly intranet portal and provides a consolidated center for document sharing, tracking, and overall project management.

Microsoft SharePoint enables users to share files with coworkers in just a few clicks. However, external sharing is just as easy— which puts the security of your sensitive data at risk. To help you control external sharing of files and folders without interfering with legitimate collaboration, this article details the external sharing settings available in the Microsoft administrative interfaces and offers best practices for configuring them.

Over the last two decades, the M365 service capabilities have developed rapidly and have evolved into a more complex version. In addition, the Security & Compliance Centre has rapidly expanded in response to the rising sophisticated attacks. Office 365 user numbers have reached approximately a whopping 345 million," broadly aligning with the 17% y-o-y increase in commercial revenue.

A lot has changed since Sumo Logic last gave our two cents on how to secure Office 365. In the meantime, Office 365 has become Microsoft 365 (M365), and Sumo has continued evolving and expanding its security offering. Today’s threat actor is adept at compromising M365 accounts through various methods. Stealing credentials through phishing email campaigns and brute-force attacks has become commonplace.

Microsoft 365 E5 is an enterprise cloud-based suite of Microsoft Office productivity apps combined with advanced voice, analytics, security, and compliance services. It is an upgrade over lower tiers E1 and E3. Though threat protection features are included in all Microsoft or Office 365 subscriptions, an E5 license provides some advanced features.

A Cloud data migration project can be a complicated procedure that requires much planning, coordination, and management to ensure successful outcomes. There are many risks to consider including data quality control, over-exposure, data loss and the costs involved, particularly when it comes to large volumes of specialized data. When an organization is considering a SharePoint migration to Microsoft 365 (M365), they must prepare their data to mitigate these risks to ensure a successful outcome.

LimaCharlie has multiple integrations that offer security teams greater visibility into Microsoft Windows. If you’re familiar with LimaCharlie, you probably know about some of these already. But over the past few months, we’ve added quite a bit to our catalog of capabilities. For this reason, we wanted to put together an updated guide to our most important Microsoft integrations.