Microsoft Enhances Encryption On Outlook.com, OneDrive

July 1, 2014
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explained this as:

“Over the past six months, we have been working across the industry to further protect and help ensure your mail remains protected. This is a significant engineering effort given the large number of services Microsoft offers and the hundreds of millions of customers we serve around the world.”
Outlook.com also gets another added layer of protection, the PFS (Perfect Forward Secrecy) that comes into play when sending and receiving email messages from a Microsoft account. This technology also benefits OneDrive, meaning that users that store files in the cloud get this increased protection when logging in from the both the web interface and the various mobile apps.]]>

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Mike Johnson is a writer for The Redmond Cloud - the most comprehensive source of news and information about Microsoft Azure and the Microsoft Cloud. He enjoys writing about Azure Security, IOT and the Blockchain.

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  • As a user of both, I’m relieved that Microsoft is enhancing the security on them. I didn’t feel totally insecure using them, but they could certainly use a boost.

    Ted Smith July 2, 2014 6:50 pm Reply

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