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Stop Collaboration Threats Before They Start
Mitigate security threats from email and collaboration tools with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO). We’ve spent years at AdaptivEdge implementing MDO and migrating organizations from competitor solutions. Protect surfaces especially susceptible to cyber threats with onboarding and ongoing support from a Microsoft security pro.
Collaboration Security Across M365
With MDO, we provide comprehensive protection against phishing, malware, and sophisticated business email compromise (BEC) attacks across Microsoft touchpoints, including Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams.
AdaptivEdge support helps your organization onboard and maintain full MDO functionality, including:
- Comprehensive security across Microsoft 365—covering email, collaboration tools, and cloud storage
- Malicious URL and attachment blocking through Safe Links, Safe Attachments, and Anti-Malware
- Advanced anti-phishing safeguards, including domain and impersonation protection, credential harvesting defense, and customizable phishing policies
- Integration with Microsoft Purview for data and information protection
- Attack Simulation Training to educate employees and improve phishing awareness
- Real-time threat detection, deep investigation via Threat Explorer, and automated remediation through AIR

5 Steps to Strengthen Collaboration Security
Here’s how your consultant will help you protect users and data across M365 collaboration tools:
- Assess & Plan: We evaluate your current mail flow architecture, existing security baselines, and current anti-phishing configurations to develop a customized deployment plan for Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO).
- Configure Key Protections: Your consultant activates and configures core protective features, including Safe Links for time-of-click URL protection, Safe Attachments for sandbox analysis of email attachments, and customized impersonation protection settings specific to your organization.
- Integrate with Microsoft Purview (Optional): We connect MDO capabilities with Microsoft Purview solutions to unify your data compliance, governance, and data loss prevention (DLP) strategy across all collaboration data.
- Test & Educate: We use the integrated Attack Simulation Training to simulate real-world phishing attempts, which evaluates organizational readiness and significantly improves user awareness and behavior.
- Review & Optimize: We analyze post-deployment metrics and refine MDO policies to strike the optimal balance between robust protection and daily usability. You’ll also receive comprehensive documentation for continued operational management.

Defender for Office 365 Consultant
Eddie Alvarez is a security consultant with extensive experience in the Microsoft tech stack. He’s ready to help with your Defender for Office 365 project.
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