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People often use email to send sensitive information, such as:
- financial data,
- legal contracts,
- confidential product information,
- sales reports and projections
- , patient health information,
- or customer and employee information.
As a result, mailboxes can become repositories for large amounts of potentially sensitive information and information leakage can become a serious threat to your organization.
With Office 365 Message Encryption, your organization can send and receive encrypted email messages between people inside and outside your organization.
Office 365 Message Encryption works with Outlook.com, Yahoo!, Gmail, and other email services.
Email message encryption helps ensure that only intended recipients can view message content.
OME Facts
- Additional layer of protection
- Protect email content By using encryption
- Based RMS : NO additional software required
- Implemented using exchange online mail flow rule
- Work with NON office 365 email like Yahoo of Gmail
- Require recipient to authenticate to read email
How OME works
- Office 365 user send email with encrypted features to yahoo recipient
- Yahoo recipient open email and see link that require him to re-authenticate or send him one-pass-code
- This will make sure that any spy to unauthorized access will NOT able to access email
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to use the new OME capabilities, you need one of the following plans:
Office 365 Message Encryption which is part of
Office 365 Enterprise E3 and E5,
Microsoft Enterprise E3 and E5,
Microsoft 365 Business Premium,
Office 365 A1, A3, and A5, and Office 365 Government G3 and G5.
Customers do not need additional licenses to receive the new protection capabilities powered by Azure Information Protection.
Azure Information Protection Plan 1
to receive the new Office 365 Message Encryption capabilities:
Exchange Online Plan 1,
Exchange Online Plan 2
Office 365 F1
Microsoft 365 Business Basic,
Microsoft 365 Business Standard,
Office 365 Enterprise E1.
- Each user benefiting from Office 365 Message Encryption needs to be licensed to be covered by the feature.
Conclusion
this article : we have discuss OME concepts
net article we will see how to configure OME and how recipient will access encrypted email
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