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FIGURE 10-3:
Intelligent services in Office Online help you improve your writing.
Recently, Microsoft added writing assistance so not only does the intelligence service check for spelling (indicated by a red squiggle) and grammar (shown with a blue double underline), it also checks for clarity and conciseness (shown with a dotted underline in Figure 10-3).
Keeping malicious actors at bay
Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is a security feature in Office 365 E5 or A5 plans. If you have other plans, Office 365 ATP can be purchased as an add-on.
Office 365 includes ATP Safe Attachments and ATP Safe Links to help protect your organization from malicious actors. ATP Safe Attachments ensures that email attachments are safe, whereas ATP Safe Links makes sure links to websites in email messages or embedded in Office documents do not result in a breach.
In Outlook Online, you may receive an email from someone who is trying to harvest your credentials through an infected attachment. With ATP Safe Attachments, that attachment is detonated in a virtual machine before it reaches your mailbox. If it’s a safe attachment, then you will see it in your email. If not, the attachment will be removed automatically from the email with a notification to inform you that a malicious attachment has been removed. This all happens very quickly, within minutes and even seconds, so it doesn’t impact your productivity. If Microsoft needs more time to analyze the attachment, your email will still be delivered immediately with a notification that the attachment is still being analyzed.
ATP Safe Links, on the other hand, protects you by checking web addresses (URLs) in real-time every time you click on a link in your email or in an Office document. Verifying the web address at the time of click is important because hackers can
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