{"id":90345,"date":"2021-05-04T10:06:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T10:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/?post_type=product&p=90345"},"modified":"2025-05-05T17:35:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T17:35:25","slug":"safeguard-send-for-office-365","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/product\/safeguard-send-for-office-365\/","title":{"rendered":"Safeguard Send for Microsoft 365"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s a problem when you pick the wrong recipients by mistake, and then send the email.\u00a0 And in the legal world, if you or a user accidently emails opposing legal counsel or other recipients it can be disastrous.\u00a0 This can sometimes happen by having two names listed for one person, where one is a work email address and the other is a personal email address.\u00a0 Then when composing the email and using the tab key to pick and choose recipients, the wrong “John Smith” is inadvertently chosen.\u00a0 This mistake has happened many times, including as far back as 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, in a recent study by Tessian<\/a>, misdirected emails are a much bigger problem than phishing, ransomware, and brute force attacks. In fact, in organizations with 1,000 employees, at least 800 emails are sent to the wrong person every year. That\u2019s two a day.<\/em><\/p>\n

Safeguard Send for Microsoft 365 helps to solve this and other issues when going to send emails by checking outgoing email, looking for incorrect recipients and other potential violations, for example examining email subjects, bodies and attachments, etc., to make sure they are in compliance with your business rules.\u00a0 If not, then it provides an external email warning prompt.<\/p>\n

While there are many outgoing email checks that can be performed, by far the most popular rule is an external email warning, that is, to prompt the user whenever sending an email outside the company.<\/b><\/p>\n

In addition to scanning the recipients underlying email address (and not just the display name), there are a number of different conditions that can be checked as an email goes out the door.<\/p>\n

For instance, you can…<\/p>\n