Activating Office 365 Mail

To protect Office 365 Mail, Harmony Email & Collaboration uses Check Point Cloud Security Platform - Emails V2 enterprise application that is automatically added to your Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

As a prerequisite to activate Office 365, make sure you have these:

00:00: 00:05: This tutorial demonstrates how to activate protection for Office, 365 00:09: mail with Harmony email and collaboration. 00:13: Log in to Infinity Portal and access, the harmony email and 00:17: collaboration Administration portal. 00:20: If you already have a contract purchase from checkpoint, click already have a contract 00:24: and follow the on-screen instructions to add your user Center account. 00:27: Otherwise click Start free trial by default. 00:31: The trial is for 14 days and you can access all the features. 00:36: To start using Harmony email and collaboration. 00:38: Click, let's get started on the welcome page that appears 00:42: Click Start for Office 365. 00:45: Select the mode of installation. Checkpoint recommends using 00:49: automatic mode, which provides better maintenance management and a 00:53: smoother user experience. 00:55: To limit the license consumption and protection to a specific group of users select 00:59: this checkbox. If you want to protect all users in your organization, 01:03: you can ignore this step. 01:07: Accept the terms of service and click okay. 01:10: You are now redirected to the Microsoft login page, follow the on-screen 01:14: instructions and sign in with Microsoft Global administrator credentials. 01:19: Review the permissions requested by checkpoint and click accept to Grant the 01:23: permissions. 01:24: To protect all the users in the organization. 01:26: Select all organization. 01:29: To protect a specific group of users, select specific group and enter 01:33: the group name and then click okay. 01:36: If you need to connect, multiple Harmony, email and collaboration, tenants to 01:40: the same Microsoft 365 account select the checkbox and 01:44: click okay. If this option is not available, please contact checkpoint 01:48: support. 01:50: After activating Office 365 mail, Harmony email and 01:54: collaboration runs in learning mode and performs several calibration processes 01:58: by default. It takes up to 48 hours to learn the 02:02: user behavior and adjust the phishing detection security engines, 02:06: depending on the number of protected mailboxes and the volume of their emails. 02:10: Please note that in learning mode, no, email will be flagged as phishing or 02:15: spam. 02:16: Harmony email and collaboration automatically exits, learning mode, 02:20: after the calibration processes are complete. 02:22: And you will immediately start seeing the detections note 02:26: that at this point, Harmony email and collaboration. 02:29: Only monitors, your emails for threats and does not quarantine them. 02:34: To prevent threats, you must change the policy protection mode to do that. 02:38: Go to policy. 02:40: Expand Office 365, male and click the default threat protection 02:44: policy ru. 02:46: Select the policy protection mode as prevent inline. 02:50: Choose the desired workflows for the different types of detections. 02:54: Scroll down and click save and apply. Now that the policy protection mode 02:58: is changed to prevent inline, Harmony email and collaboration starts 03:02: taking preventive actions.

To activate Office 365 Mail:

  1. From the Getting Started Wizard click Start for Office 365 Mail.

    or

    Navigate to Security Settings > SaaS Applications and click Start for Office 365 Mail.

  2. Select the mode of operation for Office 365.

    • Automatic mode

      Harmony Email & Collaboration performs the necessary configurations to your Microsoft 365 environment and operates in Monitor only mode. For more information, see Automatic Mode Onboarding - Microsoft 365 Footprint.

    • Manual mode

      You must manually perform the necessary configurations in the Office 365 Admin Exchange Center before you bind the application to your Office 365 email account and every time you add or edit the security policy associated with Office 365 emails. For more information, see Appendix A: Check Point Manual Integration with Office 365.

    Note - Check Point recommends using Automatic mode, allowing better maintenance, management, and smoother user experience. Before using the Manual mode, contact Check Point Support to help resolve any issues raised with the Automatic mode for onboarding.

  3. Enable the I Accept Terms Of Service checkbox.

  4. If you need to limit the license consumption and protection to a specific group of users or to connect multiple Harmony Email & Collaboration tenants to the same Microsoft 365 account:

    1. Enable the Restrict inspection to a specific group (Groups Filter) checkbox and click OK.

    2. In the Office 365 Authorization window that appears, sign in with a user with Microsoft Application Administrator or higher permissions.

    3. In the authorization screen, click Accept to grant permissions for Check Point Cloud Security Platform - Emails V2 application.

    4. In the Office 365 Mail - Group Selection pop-up, select Specific group.

    5. Enter the group name you need to protect with Harmony Email & Collaboration.

      Notes:

      • The group name must have an associated email address.

      • Harmony Email & Collaboration supports these groups for group filtering:

        • Assigned Membership:

          • Microsoft 365 Group

          • Mail-enabled Security Group

          • Distribution List

        • Dynamic Membership:

          • Microsoft 365 Group

    6. If you need to connect multiple Harmony Email & Collaboration tenants to the same Microsoft 365 account, enable the Multiple portals will be connected to this Office 365 account checkbox.

      Caution - Before you enable the checkbox, see Connecting Multiple Portals to the Same Microsoft 365 Account.

    7. Click OK.

Now, the Office 365 Mail SaaS is enabled and monitoring begins immediately.

Note - After activating Office 365 Mail, Harmony Email & Collaboration performs retroactive scan of its content. For more information, see Onboarding Next Steps.

Note - By default, Monitor only mode is assigned for all the SaaS applications you connect to. This allows you to immediately see the value that Harmony Email & Collaboration brings as it recognizes security incidents that occurred before on your SaaS platform. To configure email protection, see Threat Detection Policy.