Microsoft Outlook rolling out end-to-end encryption to protect business email

[LASER_oneXM]

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https://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-outlook-rolling-out-end-to-end-encryption-to-protect-business-email/

Outlook will also ask a user if they wish to encrypt an email if it detects sensitive information, like a bank account number, in the email.

• The new Outlook will give users options for how secure you'd like your emails to be.
• There are also features that would block people receiving your emails from being able to forward or copy the message.

Microsoft is rolling out a series of new security measures in their email program Outlook, including end-to-end encryption. Users will now be able to turn on a feature that will send messages through a secure connection, shielding it from cybercrimnals and hackers.

The features were initially announced via an April 5 blog post, but only recently started rolling out to users.

Two of the biggest changes to Outlook revolve around encryption and forwarding. With an Office 365 subscription, users can send, receive, and download encrypted files and messages, the post said. Users without an account can download files or messages using a passcode.

These encrypted emails cannot be forwarded or copied, and any documents in them will remain encrypted if access by another user without an Office 365 subscription, the post said.

Microsoft gives you a variety of encryption options both for your own account and messages you receive from other accounts, allowing you to tailor your security features as you'd like. Before this move, Outlook messages were secured through the TLS encryption method, which could not keep messages encrypted once they made it to another person's inbox and could not encrypt attached files.

Outlook has also added a feature where it will automatically ask you if you'd like to encrypt an email if it detects sensitive information in the email such as a bank account number or social security number, the post noted.

 

[frogboy]

Now, this has to be a good implication to help keep users and their messages safe.

 

[Deleted member 65228]

I'm here at 3:42am doing diamond push ups

If only more companies had such determination but with security and keeping people's data safe.

 

[upnorth]

A very beautiful and promising step in the right direction that fills me with hope. Thanks for the share @LASER_oneXM

 

[Oten]

Great news!