How does Microsoft 365 protect my data?

Protects your company information by controlling the way users access and share information. Sets rules and configure settings on personal and organization-owned devices to access data and networks. Deploys and authenticate apps on devices, both on-premises and mobile.

Is Office 365 data secure?

Microsoft provides a financially backed 99.9% application uptime guarantee for Microsoft 365. It also includes a range of robust security capabilities, such as identity and access management, threat protection, information protection, and security and risk management.

How does Microsoft protect user data?

With state-of-the-art encryption, Microsoft protects your data both at rest and in transit. Our encryption protocols erect barriers against unauthorized access to the data, including two or more independent encryption layers to protect against compromises of any one layer.

Does Microsoft keep your data?

At Microsoft, we believe privacy starts with putting you in control of your data. Your privacy dashboard is the place where you can view and clear data that Microsoft saves to the cloud. This data includes your browsing and Bing search history, location data, apps and services activity, and more.

Can Microsoft access my o365 data?

You can access your data anytime during your Microsoft subscription. Azure, Dynamics 365, Intune, and Office 365 subscribers can retrieve data without notification.

Data Protection in Microsoft 365

Can Microsoft look at your files?

If Microsoft can read Outlook.com email, they can read your Office documents too. Microsoft Office and Windows 8 encourage people to save documents and pictures to Microsoft's OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) service.

Can Microsoft read my documents?

Read Aloud is only available for Office 2019, Office 2021, and Microsoft 365. On the Review tab, select Read Aloud. To play Read Aloud, select Play in in the controls. To pause Read Aloud, select Pause.

Can I trust Microsoft with my data?

We secure your data at rest and in transit

With state-of-the-art encryption, Microsoft protects your data both at rest and in transit. Our encryption protocols erect barriers against unauthorized access to the data, including two or more independent encryption layers to protect against compromises of any one layer.

Where is my 365 data stored?

To confirm where customer data is stored for existing Office 365 services, please view tenant specific data location information in your Office 365 Admin Center in Settings | Org settings | Organization profile | Data location card.

Can Microsoft be trusted?

However, Microsoft has actually done some good for online security. Microsoft is arguably the most influential technology company in history. Nearly 30 years after its first release, Windows is still the world's most popular operating system. As of 2018, it's installed on 88.4 percent of computers worldwide.

What is Microsoft 365 security & Compliance?

The Microsoft Office 365 Security & Compliance Center is an enterprise email security and data protection solution purpose-built for organizations who use Office 365 business products, Outlook, and Exchange servers alike.

How does Azure delete data?

Data destruction: When customers delete data or leave Azure, Microsoft follows strict standards for deleting data, as well as the physical destruction of decommissioned hardware. Microsoft executes a complete deletion of data on customer request and on contract termination.

Where can the legal team access information around how the Microsoft cloud helps them secure sensitive data and comply with applicable laws and regulations?

It can be found in the Microsoft 365 security center. Following the Secure Score recommendations can protect your organization from threats.

What are the security risks of Office 365?

Credential Theft. Microsoft Office 365 credentials are some of the top targets for cybercriminals. With access to an Office 365 account, an attacker can steal a great deal of sensitive data and use their access to perform future attacks. Cybercriminals steal account credentials through a variety of different means.

Can Office 365 emails be hacked?

Using the stolen credentials, the attacker can access the user's Microsoft 365 mailbox, SharePoint folders, or files in the user's OneDrive. One action commonly seen is the attacker sending emails as the original user to recipients both inside and outside of the organization.

Does Office 365 have a firewall?

Your company will have consistent protection and performance wherever users are. Deploying Office 365 and other cloud applications using a traditional firewall with port- and protocol-based policies simply will not work, because there's no way to tell whether or not a user or device is authorized.

Does Office 365 store data in the cloud?

Office 365 is Microsoft's cloud service. It offers a variety of cloud-based software that you can access anywhere and acts as a service. It covers the Office Suite programs like Word, Excel, PowerPoint. As well as offer their cloud-based services like SharePoint.

Where does Microsoft have data centers?

Within these markets, Microsoft Azure operates data centers in the following regions: Central US, East US, East US 2, North Central US, South Central US, West Central US, West US, West US 2, and West US 3.

Where is our data stored?

All of the data (i.e. YOUR data) is stored on hard drive arrays in servers that are susceptible to many of the same faults as the storage in your laptop or desktop computer. Additionally, depending of which provider you use, the data centre could be based in a different country, or possibly even a different continent.

How do I stop Microsoft from collecting data?

Does Microsoft sell your personal data?

You own your data

Microsoft will use your customer data only to provide the services we have agreed upon, and for purposes that are compatible with providing those services. We do not share your data with our advertiser-supported services, nor do we mine it for marketing or advertising.

How long does Microsoft keep your data?

Subscription Retention

If a paid subscription ends or is terminated, Microsoft retains customer data stored in Microsoft 365 in a limited-function account for 90 days to enable the subscriber to extract the data. After the 90-day retention period ends, Microsoft disables the account and deletes the customer data.

How do I stop Microsoft from spying on me?

Can Microsoft look at your OneDrive?

By default, only YOU can see OneDrive files

It is like your local drive, my documents or desktop. So, nothing to worry about confidentiality and security. If you share a OneDrive file with someone, then obviously those people have access.

Who can see Office 365 documents?

Only you can see your private files on your profile unless you decide to share them.