Microsoft announced the addition of two new compliance and security offerings beginning February 1, 2019, as a response to the new requirements added by information protection regulations such as EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and today's increasing cybersecurity attack threat.
The new security and compliance packages are designed to provide business customers who aren't ready for a Microsoft 365 E5 bundle to be able to get some of the benefits it comes with.
The Identity & Threat Protection offer packs multiple threat protection services
Microsoft 365 is a software bundle comprising Office 365, Windows 10, and EMS (short for Enterprise Mobility + Security), which in Microsoft's vision provides customers with an easy way of enjoying a secure and easy to manage platform, while also boosting creativity and teamwork.
Moreover, the new Microsoft 365 Identity & Threat Protection package bundles together multiple advanced threat protection services, ranging from Microsoft Threat Protection (Windows Defender ATP, Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), and Office 365 ATP incorporating Threat Intelligence), to Microsoft Cloud App Security and Azure Active Directory.
The Identity & Threat Protection offer will be available starting February 1 to all Microsoft 365 E3 customers for $12 per user per month, before volume discounts.
Microsoft also plans to add the Information Protection & Compliance offer to the Microsoft 365 subscription plans, combining Office 365 Advance Compliance and Azure Information Protection into a single package.
Microsoft 365 E3 customers can now use features available in the E5 bundle
According to Redmond, this package is "designed to help chief compliance officers perform ongoing risk assessments with a compliance score across Microsoft Cloud services, automatically classify and protect sensitive data, and efficiently respond to regulatory requests leveraging artificial intelligence (AI)."
The new compliance Microsoft 365 offering will be priced slightly lower when compared to the new security package, with a price of $10 per user per month for all Microsoft 365 E3 customers before volume discounts.
"There are no price increases or service impacts associated with any of these changes. The new Identity & Threat Protection and Information Protection & Compliance offerings are designed to provide customers with simpler purchase, deployment, and adoption of these security and compliance workloads," said Ron Markezich, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft 365.
Comments
Bullwinkle-J-Moose - 5 years ago
Security?
Compliance?
Microsoft does not provide Security so there is no need to comply
Wild claims of providing security by making our systems insecure is the biggest scam there is
How about showing us that Windows source-code so we can verify our own security?
Or that you actually own the source-code you are licensing through blackmail and extortion?
Didn't think so
How about closing the backdoor's in Windows?
Didn't think so
How about dropping all the spyware?
Yeah, that's what I thought
Compliance?
How about NO!
Paying for our own enslavement?
Get Bent!
Microsoft is run by Criminals
itstomd - 5 years ago
I have to agree with "Bullwinkle-J-Moose"... There is always some guy in a backoffice with access to your cloud data.. I was one of them, not at Microsoft, but other large corporations.. I have found scanned IRS returns, love letters, and all kinds of stuff!
Anything you put in the cloud, no matter how secure they say it is can be accessed by someone. You should encrypt everything if its sensitive, but again, if its in the cloud, and you have access to the data unencrypted, the back office guy can get to it too. I use veracrypt on vms and use a super complex password which needs to be inputted at boot. Even then, it can be risky. The best is to have your encrypted data in a closed networkwith no access to the internet in your locked IT room.