Emails containing malicious attachments and links are commonly used in attacks against large institutions. Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ of Missouri uses Microsoft Safe Attachments and Safe Links to protect faculty, staff and students from phishing attacks and malware infections.
Safe Attachments is a proven and effective security tool that reduces the chances of malicious attachments infecting computers or distributing ransomware. With Safe Attachments, all suspicious attachments go through a real time behavioral malware analysis engine that uses machine learning techniques to evaluate the content for suspicious activity. Suspicious and unsafe attachments are removed, and the recipient is notified of the action. Safe Attachment is not noticeable to most email users.
Detecting Unsafe Attachments
If an unsafe email attachment is detected by the scanning engine, it will be removed from the email and replaced by a short text file informing the user that the original attachment was found to be malicious.
Safe Attachments works on email coming from both internal and external sources. This further protects our email users from internal threats such as compromised devices or compromised user accounts. Please note that email deliveries with large attachments may be slightly delayed while the technology scans the content.
Safe Attachments and File Storage
Safe Attachments uses the same advanced scanning engine used for emails to proactively scan documents in OneDrive and SharePoint and identifying malware. If a document is identified as malicious, it will be blocked from opening, copying, moving or sharing. To learn more about Safe Attachments in Office 365 applications, visit the .
Handling Email Attachments
Safe Attachments is a proven and effective security tool, but it is not perfect, and its implementation does not guarantee that all files are safe. There is still a chance that malicious attachments could make it to a user's inbox. Continue to use extreme caution when opening attachments, especially from an unknown source. If anything about the email looks suspicious, please report it to your local IT Help Desk.