Enabling Data Protection and Compliance in the G Suite Environment

By Matt Hines, VP of Marketing at CipherCloud & Ishani Sircar, Product Marketing Manager at CipherCloud    The Rise of G Suite and Related Data Security Challenges With over 2 billion active users and a market share of 56.97 percent, G Su… Continue reading Enabling Data Protection and Compliance in the G Suite Environment

Introducing CipherCloud Data security-as-a-service (DSaaS)

By Sanjay Chetwani, Senior Director, Alliances & OEM at CipherCloud    With the adoption of technology across consumers and businesses, data as we know it will continue to increase quantity and value both. Today’s digital-first… Continue reading Introducing CipherCloud Data security-as-a-service (DSaaS)

Assessing the Risk of the Former Employee

Employees leaving a company can pose a real risk to the security of an organization Many years ago, I left a job to take a new position. Several weeks after I made the move, I was searching for some information and realized that it may have been in my… Continue reading Assessing the Risk of the Former Employee

Advanced Office 365 Message Encryption Includes Branded Communications and Revocation

A branded notification for an encrypted message
A branded notification for an encrypted message

Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) now offers an advanced set of features to Office 365 E5 tenants. You can have messages with specific branding delivered to different domains. Advanced OME also includes message revocation. Branding is a feature that will appeal to a limited set of tenants, but it would be nice if revocation was available to a wider set of Office 365 tenants.

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Exiting Office 365 with Your Encrypted Messages and Documents


The Azure Information Protection team recently published an interesting post about making a “cloud exit.” In other words, how to move your encrypted data out of a cloud service like Office 365. As it turns out, this is feasible if you plan. But how many organizations have even thought about how they might decrypt protected content?

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Office Apps to Get Native Support for Office 365 Sensitivity Labels


Microsoft says that the Office desktop Windows apps will have native support for Office 365 sensitivity labels in the second half of 2019. Native support means that users won’t need to install the Azure Information Protection (AIP) client to apply labels. However, if they want to continue using the AIP client (because it is more functional), they need to deploy a system registry update.

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Why Exchange Transport Rules are a Good Way to Encrypt Email

Exchange Online Office 365
Exchange Online Office 365

Exchange Online transport (mail flow) rules are a powerful way to ensure that email from Office 365 tenants to specific recipients are encrypted in a consistent manner. Using rules relieves the need for users to become involved and makes sure that email is protected in a way that recipients can read messages. It’s a good way to use the protection features built into Office 365.

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Encrypted Office 365 Content is a Wake-Up Call for ISVs


The signs are that Office 365 will store more encrypted content as time goes by. But ISV products might not be able to process that content because they cannot decrypt it. All of which creates the prospect that you might archive or move data somewhere only to discover later that it is inaccessible. And that’s a bad thing.

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Microsoft Plans to Launch Automatic Email Encryption for Office 365 Tenants


Microsoft plans to create an automatic policy to encrypt outbound email containing sensitive data for all Office 365 tenants. It sounds like a good idea until you begin looking at the operational consequences of such an action. For instance, how to insert a new transport rule into a complex set of existing rules. All in all, this is not a good plan.

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Rights Management, Protection, and Email AutoSignatures


Given the increased ways to apply rights management protection (encryption) to Exchange Online messages, the volume of encrypted traffic should rise. That’s good for users because their email is protected, but it’s not so good for ISVs who must deal with encrypted email. One such example is autosignature products, where server-based components can’t touch protected email to add their text.

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