Office 365 Security

[cjk]

Hello,

 

This my thread first post on here, but i have been reading the forum for some time.

 

We are currently looking at moving our schools email to our own Office 365 Tenant. We currently use a mix of LA provided Gsuite and Office 365.

We are currently told the LA provided Office 365 is secure when sending to/from the LA.

 

If we moved to our own tenant would it still be secure with office 365 tenants? I also understand we could send encrypted emails through Office 365 to any address, would these meet the requirements of the DPA to send personal information? I assume email would be secure (TLS Security?) within our own domain in our own tenant?

 

Sorry if this has been asked before, I have read a number of threads but haven't seen much in terms of DPA & Office 365.

 

Any advice or expiration would be much appreciated

Many Thanks

[mikkydoos]

We are currently told the LA provided Office 365 is secure when sending to/from the LA.

 

Probably because it doesn't leave the network circuit between you and them.

 

All email cloud services are encrypted anyway these days, hence SSL, TLS protocols etc.

You can set up full encryption in O365 for sure.

 

I'd be more worried about using an LA hosted service than the big boys.

Edited May 4, 2017 by mikkydoos

[gshaw]

If you want to send encrypted mail you'll need to set up Azure RMS (rights management services) on your new tenant. Comes free as part of your EES \ O365 subscription.

[cjk]

All email cloud services are encrypted anyway these days, hence SSL, TLS protocols etc.

You can set up full encryption in O365 for sure.

 

Looks like it should all be okay, can't be any worse than currently

 

Comes free as part of your EES \ O365 subscription.

Yes we have got an EES subscription, infact we originally licence EES just to get the new versions of Office but is why I am now thinking it may as well makes use of the O365 part.

 

Thanks for your advise