Effective June 1, 2020, Microsoft will automatically enable Microsoft Threat Protection features when eligible customers visit the Microsoft 365 security center (security.microsoft.com). Read below to learn more.
Customers with corresponding licenses for one of the following Microsoft 365 security products:
This also applies to customers with one of the following licenses by June 1, 2020:
Starting June 1, Microsoft will be enhancing the listed Microsoft 365 security products by turning on Microsoft Threat Protection features when an eligible customer visits the Microsoft 365 security center.
Microsoft Threat Protection is a new solution from Microsoft that enables out-of-the-box, coordinated defenses across the Microsoft 365 security stack for email, endpoints, identities, and apps. It orchestrates cross-product defenses to detect, block, and prevent sophisticated attacks and automatically heal assets affected by these attacks.
Microsoft Threat Protection stitches together threat signals to help determine the full scope and impact of a threat: how it entered the environment, what it has affected, and how it's currently impacting the organization. It leverages the end-to-end view of the attack to orchestrate automatic response actions across products, stopping the attack and applying self-healing technologies to mailboxes, endpoints, and user identities.
To learn more about Microsoft Threat Protection:
Visit the product website | Explore the documentation | Read our blog | Watch the webcast
Microsoft Threat Protection is covered by the Online Services Terms as updated for May 2020.
The following features will light up:
This applies to all customers with Microsoft 365 security products, except for certain government institutions as well as customers in regions that currently don’t support integration between Office 365 ATP and Microsoft Threat Protection.
Microsoft Threat Protection will not turn on automatically for customers in the following government institutions:
This exclusion also applies to customers in the following regions whose licenses are eligible for Office 365 ATP only (and not any of the other Microsoft 365 security products):
Yes, customers who are currently eligible can enable Microsoft Threat Protection before June 1, 2020. Go to Settings in Microsoft 365 security center (security.microsoft.com/settings) and, if needed, follow the steps outlined in this article.
Microsoft automatically enables Microsoft Threat Protection features for all eligible tenants. Simply visit Microsoft 365 security center and start exploring it.
No action is required, and the change will not affect you. You can continue to use Microsoft Threat Protection features as before.
Yes, customers with one or more eligible licenses for any of the listed products will get access to Microsoft Threat Protection, which consolidates data from the listed products to provide a unified security experience in Microsoft 365 security center. Data available to Microsoft Threat Protection will be scoped only to products that have already been deployed.
No, none of the listed Microsoft 365 security products are automatically deployed. When turned on, Microsoft Threat Protection consolidates data from products that have already been deployed. Learn more about deploying the supported products
Access to Microsoft Threat Protection is governed at the tenant level in the same way access to the specific E5 product experiences is managed – a tenant needs to have valid E5 licenses attached to it to access Microsoft Threat Protection features in Microsoft 365 security center. Data sent to Microsoft Threat Protection is scoped only to products that have already been deployed and only to users and devices to which E5 licenses have been assigned per the license assignment definition of the individual products.
The changes above come into effect on June 1, 2020.
Please read Microsoft Threat Protection documentation. You can also contact us via the customer feedback tool in Microsoft 365 security center, read the Microsoft Online Services Terms, or reach out to your Microsoft representative or partner to learn more.
Raviv Tamir
Group Program Manager
Microsoft Threat Protection
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