{"id":3586,"date":"2024-12-02T09:35:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T08:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpethzprd.ethz.ch\/its\/?p=3586"},"modified":"2024-12-02T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T08:35:08","slug":"time-of-click-protection-for-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/2024\/12\/02\/time-of-click-protection-for-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"Time-of-click protection for URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft now provides &#171;time-of-click&#187; checking of the URLs found in email messages and documents such as MS Word files and spread-sheets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ability to check URLs is now built into Outlook, Outlook-Web-Access and the various MS Office applications. This feature is available for Microsoft 365 users, where the mailboxes and files are stored in the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each time that you click on a URL, a Microsoft filtering server checks the reputation of that URL and, if necessary, opens the URL in a &#171;sandbox&#187; environment to be sure that the URL is safe. This may slow down your work a bit, but it is necessary to provide protection against URLs that have been changed to point to a malware-downloader AFTER you have received the email or document. This is a delayed use of the URL as a threat: first the URL was safe, later it was no longer safe because it is now potentially harmful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See also <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/microsoft-defender-for-office\/enhanced-threat-detection-with-url-click-alerts-by-microsoft\/ba-p\/3766110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Enhanced threat detection with URL click alerts by Microsoft Defender for Office 365<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft now provides &#171;time-of-click&#187; checking of the URLs found in email messages and documents such as MS Word files and spread-sheets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257891,25],"tags":[301580,758,301869,301867,301868,301866],"class_list":["post-3586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-sec","category-news","tag-cloud","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-defender","tag-protection-for-urls","tag-sandbox-environment","tag-time-of-click"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3643,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions\/3643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}