Last week, the technology giant Microsoft has announced that they are going to add some new advanced features to Microsoft Defender for Office 365 to allow Microsoft Teams users to alert their organization's security team of any deceitful messages they receive.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (previously known as Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection or Office 365 ATP) works against malicious threats coming from malicious email messages, links, and collaboration tools to protect organizations.
The new features are developing upon improvements announced in July 2021, allowing Microsoft Teams to automatically blocks phishing attempts.
According to the given data on Microsoft's official website, this in-development feature will give power to admins to alter potentially dangerous messages targeting employees with malicious payloads or trying to redirect them to phishing websites.
"End users will be able to report suspicious Microsoft Teams messages as a security threat just like they do for emails - to help the organization to protect itself from attacks via Microsoft Teams," Microsoft explains on the Microsoft 365 roadmap.
Additionally, one of the users reported that Redmond is also developing new features for Office 365's Submissions experience to categorize the user-reported messages into individual tabs for Phish, Spam (Junk), and so on.
However, as per the process, it is expected that the advance submission feature will be available to the general public next month, the new user reporting capability is now in preview and will most likely roll out to standard multi-tenants until the end of January 2023 to desktop and web clients worldwide.
Microsoft extended Defender for Office 365 Safe Links protection to the Teams communication platform to help customers from malicious URL-based phishing attacks.
"Safe Links in Defender for Office 365 scans URLs at the time of click to ensure that users are protected with the latest intelligence from Microsoft Defender,” Microsoft further told.
