How to Stay on Top of Permissions Changes to Public Folders in Exchange Online

Many organizations use Exchange Online public folders to collect and share data, including highly sensitive data. Anyone who has sufficient Exchange Online permissions to public folders can easily access the content in them, modify and remove information, move content around, or even forward it to those who shouldn’t see it — which can result in a breach or a data loss. Staying on top of changes to permissions for public folders, especially those that contain critical data, is a must-have for IT administrators, so they can quickly identify unauthorized changes and mitigate threats. 

Netwrix Auditor for Exchange is a software application for user behavior analysis and risk mitigation across cloud IT environments. The application delivers insightful reports that enable you to gain visibility into what’s going on across your hosted Exchange component including who changed which permissions to public folders in Exchange Online and Exchange Server and when it happened, so you can respond quickly and harden the security of your sensitive assets against threats. The Interactive Search feature helps you quickly spot suspicious changes to public folder permissions across your Exchange Online environment, while alerts on threat patterns keep you notified about the activity you deem risky.