

Incidents are tracked and resolved, and post-mortem analysis is performed. The receiving personnel initiate the incident response process. When anti-malware tools detect malware, they block the malware and generate an alert to Microsoft 365 service team personnel, Microsoft 365 Security, and/or the security and compliance team of the Microsoft organization that operates our datacenters. Alerting, cleaning, and mitigation of detected malware.Automatic download and application of signature updates at least daily from the vendor's virus definition site.


The use of anti-malware software is a principal mechanism for protection of Microsoft 365 assets from malicious software. Microsoft 365 includes protection mechanisms to prevent malware from being introduced into Microsoft 365 by a client or by a Microsoft 365 server. Malware consists of viruses, spyware and other malicious software. In this article Protecting customer data from malware
