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Microsoft 365 OneDrive and SharePoint have versioning. Many people consider versioning their disaster recovery solution and don’t utilize a 3rd party backup services for their Microsoft 365 deployments. Microsoft themselves state: “Versioning helps to protect SharePoint Online lists and SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business libraries from some, but not all, of these types of ransomware attacks. Versioning is enabled by default in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online. Since versioning is enabled in SharePoint Online site lists, you can look at earlier versions and recover them, if necessary. That enables you to recover versions of items that pre-date their encryption by ransomware. Some organizations also retain multiple versions of items in their lists for legal reasons or audit purposes.” 

Upcoming Web Browser Changes May Put Your Company At Risk

Constant changes to the internet mean standards must be updated or created as needed. The primary organization responsible for forging internet standards is the Internet Engineering Task Force, IETF. Recently, IETF approved two new methods for encrypting DNS traffic to improve the privacy and security of DNS lookups. These are DNS over HTTPS or DoH and DNS over TLS or DoT.

Be Aware Of Your Office 365 Rules 

As Office 365 has become popular with businesses of all sizes, it has also become a popular attack vector for hackers and fraudsters.  One of the ways that these internet miscreants have been attacking Office 365 customers is through mail processing rules.