Your company has a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription.
Users in the research department work with sensitive data.
You need to prevent the research department users from accessing potentially unsafe websites by using hyperlinks embedded in email messages and documents. Users in other departments must not be restricted.
What should you do?
To prevent the research department users from accessing potentially unsafe websites by using hyperlinks embedded in email messages and documents, you should create a new safe links policy. Safe Links is a feature in Defender for Office 365 that provides URL scanning and rewriting of inbound email messages, as well as time-of-click verification of URLs and links in email messages and other locations. This feature ensures that users are protected from malicious links that could be used in phishing and other attacks. Safe Links policies can be configured to apply to specific user groups, such as the research department, ensuring targeted protection without affecting other departments.
Safe Links is a feature in Defender for Office 365 that provides URL scanning and rewriting of inbound email messages in mail flow, and time-of-click verification of URLs and links in email messages and other locations. Safe Links scanning occurs in addition to the regular anti-spam and anti-malware in inbound email messages in Exchange Online Protection (EOP). Safe Links scanning can help protect your organization from malicious links that are used in phishing and other attacks. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/office-365-security/safe-links-about?view=o365-worldwide