Interaction with Microsoft ATP

Avanan supports link rewriting even when Microsoft Safe Links is enabled.

When both Avanan Click-Time Protection and Microsoft Safe Links are active, the Avanan rewritten link is embedded within the Microsoft rewritten link.

The format of the rewritten link is as follows:

Safe Links rewritten URL prefix> < Avanan rewritten URL prefix> <Original URL> < rewritten URL suffix> <Microsoft Safe Links suffix>

This integration provides the protection of both Avanan and Microsoft without you requiring to disable either one:

  • Both Avanan and Microsoft inspects the original link upon email receipt.

  • When a user clicks the URL, both Avanan and Microsoft inspects the website or file linked and can block access if it is identified as malicious.

When clicking on re-written links, the end user experiences the following:

Microsoft Verdict Avanan Verdict User Experience
Clean Clean Redirects to the original URL.
Malicious Malicious or Clean Microsoft block page.
Clean Malicious Avanan block page. See Click-Time Protection - End-User Experience.