ORCA.236: Safe Links is enabled for emails.
| ID | ORCA.236 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Suite | ORCA |
| Product | Defender |
| Related products | Exchange Online |
| Feature | Safe Links |
| Security area | Email and collaboration protection |
| Resource type | Policy |
| User impact of fixing | Low |
| Effort to fix | Low |
| Framework controls | nist-800-53-r5:SI-3 Malicious Code Protection |
| MITRE ATT&CK | T1566.002, T1204.001 |
| Reads from | Exchange Online |
| Licence needed | ATP_ENTERPRISE |
What this checks and how to fix it
Section titled “What this checks and how to fix it”When Safe Links for emails is enabled, URLs in emails will be checked when users click on links.
Remediation action
Section titled “Remediation action”Enable Safe Links policy action for unknown potentially malicious URLs in emails.
Related Links
Section titled “Related Links”- Microsoft 365 Defender Portal - Safe links
- Recommended settings for EOP and Microsoft Defender for Office 365
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