Microsoft has become the latest company to ensure message encryption is coming to its service in the light of NSA's snooping around data. Office 365 is set to get message encryption in the first quarter of 2014 and will ensure that users will be able to automatically send encrypted emails to recipients outside of their own company. The new feature is called Office 365 Message Encryption and will ensure that not just all mails being sent but replies and forwards of original messages will automatically be encrypted. In a blog post announcing this new feature, Shobhit Sahay, Product Marketing Manager for the Microsoft Exchange team wrote, “Office 365 Message Encryption is the new version of Exchange Hosted Encryption (EHE). This version includes all of the capabilities of EHE plus new features, such as the ability to apply your company's branding to encrypted messages.”
Encryption comes to Office 365
Quite like EHE, Office 365 Message Encryption will work with Office 365 mailboxes as well as on-premises mailboxes that use Exchange Online Protection, he added. Office 365 E3 and E4 users will get the Office 365 Message Encryption feature at no extra cost and the company is including it in Windows Azure Rights Management, already a part of these planes. The feature will also be added to the standalone version of Windows Azure Rights Management without raising the price of the service. You can opt to pay $2 a month to get a “complete solution” for internal and external information protection – traditional Rights Management capabilities like Do Not Forward for internal users, plus the new ability to encrypt outbound messages to any recipient.Essentially, you will be able to apply or remove encryption in the Exchange admin center and the outbound message will get encrypted before it touches the outside mail server. A set of instructions will be sent to the receiver, who will have to go through a few steps to get authorisation to read the content of the message. If the receiver decides to forward the mail, the original mail will get automatically encrypted again.
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