If the control to unrestrict the attachment is enabled, the document will be decrypted and the recipient will be able to view it normally. When the recipient signs-in to the Office 365 Message Encryption portal, they can preview attachments as before.
Details on implementing the settings are below. For example, one scenario this is valued is when a doctor shares a protected attachment to her patient, and the patient wants to share this with his family, the attachment is no longer encrypted so they can open the attachment without any additional steps.Īdmins can control whether attachments have unrestricted permissions for Encrypt-Only emails. To provide more flexible controls for recipients, organizations can control if recipients have unrestricted permissions on the attachment or not for Encrypt-Only emails. By default, when a user sends an email and attachments using Encrypt-only, the Office attachments are also protected with Encrypt-Only permissions and that encryption persists throughout lifecycle of the content. We have now made it possible for administrators to control how Encrypt-Only behaves for attachments. This was a key ask from Office 365 Message Encryption customers and is now available as a tenant-level setting. Changes are reflected below in the blog.Īdministrators can now control whether Office attachments are protected for recipients inside and outside of Office 365 when the Encrypt-Only template is used. This is only a very basic step but one which is easy to implement.We have updated the blog to reflect that we've expanded the ability to control if Office attachments are protected for recipients inside Office 365 - previously this was only supported for non-Office 365 users. Preventing employees from being able to download ad install the office applications helps you maintain control and access to your data. Now when employees login to their accounts the options to download and install Office is not there. To prevent all, untick all of the options under ‘Office apps that users can install’ and click Save.Ĥ. Here you can set options to prevent the downloading of the Office applications. To remove this option to download and install the Office applications log into the Office 365 Admin Center here.ģ. Here we can see a standard user account has the ability to download and install Office applications.Ģ.
It’s simply not worth the risk so preventing employees from being able to install Office applications direct from the web portal is an easy way to mitigate this risk.ġ. Employees which can install OneDrive or Outlook onto unsecured devices may put your company and clients data at risk.
Preventing employees from installing Office applications themselves especially on their home computers may be an essential part of your data loss prevention strategy. Prevent Users From Installing Office Applications Themselves Office 365
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