Use Security Policy Advisory To Manage Your Office 365 Security Policies

For any big organization, keeping the data safe is a high priority. It can sometimes be hard to secure the user but it is necessary and needs to be done. It can be hard to keep the security up against new threats. Complex security solutions can make it even more confusing and disoriented to keep your data safe.

That’s why new measures are taken to create easy ways to keep all the data safe. From MS Office setup, steps are taken to provide new ways that help you as you protect the people, devices, apps, and data in your organization. The first step towards providing better security is the announcement for public review of the Security Policy Advisor. This is the first attempt to support the Office 365 setup and invest to strengthen the apps in Office 365 ProPlus. The new Security Policy Advisor helps organizations in many ways.

 It helps the user to foresee the changes in feature caused by any change in security policies.

 It provides you recommendations by analyzing your usage.

 It provides you with deep insights about the impact on your group’s use of any feature in

MS Office from policy changes.

Now let’s have a look into some exciting new features of the new Security Policy Advisor.

Simplified Policy Management

The Office Cloud Policy service, it is an easy to use cloud-based tool that allows you to change the policies for Office 365 ProPlus and implement them on any selected users by using Azure Active Directory groups. This allows the policymaker to make changes to the devices, accounts or Office setup from a single account. The new policy changes will be assigned as soon as the individual users sign in with their credentials.

The cloud-based tool helps to manage and make policy changes or all the devices, managed or unmanaged, available for policy changes. Improved Policy Configuration Monitoring Earlier it was all up to a single person to make policy changes which will benefit the group. But the pressure of making changes to all the group users falls on you. It was not to determine which policy changes will have a better impact on the group.

Even if the changes in policies are made with better security baseline, they have to wait to see the impact on the users. The new Security Advisor completely changes the game. It analyzes the individual use of Office and helps to change the policies which will suit the user. Not only that, but Security Policy Advisor also helps to analyze the changes which will be seen with the implementation of certain policies.

The Advisor will recommend changes in policies which can benefit the group by analyzing the usage of different individuals.

Conclusion- Security Advisor doesn’t just end with the recommendation and policy changes. It will continue to monitor the impact of the policy and highlight the user or situations which require your attention.