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Summary<\/strong>: While doing a malicious Email Investigation in Office 365, specific prerequisites need to be followed first, such as the organization must have Microsoft 365 Advanced Threat Protection. Apart from this, policies should be defined for anti-malware, anti-spam, anti-phishing, and other cybersecurity risks. Using Threat Explorer to Investigate Suspicious Emails and analyze Phishing URLs are some of the crucial steps a SOC analyst should take to mitigate the after-effects of a cyberattack. A third-party email forensics software, such as Stellar Email Forensic, supports the investigation and digital evidence collection at the granular level.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>

Organizations and businesses today rely on emails for their day-to-day communication, making them vulnerable to various cybersecurity threats, such as phishing, malware attacks, etc. In light of these threats, Microsoft offers most of its products, including Office 365, with built-in security features. For example, if your organization has Microsoft 365 Advanced Threat Protection, then you’ve access to a built-in security tool – Threat Explorer, that can help protect your organization against malicious emails.<\/p>

In this guide, we’ll discuss how Micorsoft 365 Threat Explorer protects your organization from cybersecurity threats and helps you to investigate malicious emails.<\/p>

Prerequisites<\/strong><\/h3>

You can use Office 365 Threat Explorer to strengthen email security by finding and deleting malicious emails, curbing phishing attacks, etc. However, it would help if you met a few conditions first:<\/p>