Office 365 Encrypted Email
In microsoft 365 email data at rest is encrypted using bitlocker drive encryption.
Office 365 encrypted email. If you don t have one of those plans you can add azure rights management service rms or enterprise mobility security ems to your plan. The encrypted email feature is included in the office 365 e3 e4 e5 and k1 plans. Bitlocker encrypts the hard drives in microsoft datacenters to provide enhanced protection against unauthorized access.
With office 365 your data is encrypted at rest and in transit using several strong encryption protocols and technologies that include transport layer security secure sockets layer tls ssl internet protocol security ipsec and advanced encryption standard aes. Select sign in and view your encrypted message. Depending on your subscription and the functionalities microsoft has rolled out you will find two or more pre configured encryption policies.
Email message encryption helps ensure that only intended recipients can view message content. After you open the message you ll see message encryption by microsoft 365 and an attachment called message html. In an email message choose options select encrypt and pick the encryption that has the restrictions you want to enforce such as encrypt only or do not forward.
It s not at all difficult to implement message encryption. Microsoft 365 message encryption is part of the office 365 enterprise e3 license. The new office 365 message encryption ome capabilities allow organizations to share protected email with anyone on any device.
With office 365 message encryption your organization can send and receive encrypted email messages between people inside and outside your organization. More information about email encryption options. To learn more see bitlocker overview.
Enable office 365 message encryption. With ome enabled in your office 365 tenant users can immediately start sending encrypted email to recipients within or outside the organization based on the default policies available in ome.