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# Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen # Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen
**Applies to:**
- Windows 11
Concerned about your users accidentally typing their sign-in passwords into a credential harvesting content? Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen helps protect Microsoft school or work passwords against phishing and unsafe usage on sites and apps. Concerned about your users accidentally typing their sign-in passwords into a credential harvesting content? Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen helps protect Microsoft school or work passwords against phishing and unsafe usage on sites and apps.
Enhanced Phishing Protection works alongside Windows security protections and helps protect typed work or school passwords used to sign into Windows 11 in three ways: Enhanced Phishing Protection works alongside Windows security protections and helps protect typed work or school passwords used to sign into Windows 11 in three ways:
- If users type their work or school Microsoft account password on any browser into a site deemed malicious by Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, Enhanced Phishing Protection will alert them. It will also prompt them to change their password so attackers cant gain access to their account. - If users type their work or school Microsoft account password on any browser into a site deemed malicious by Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, Enhanced Phishing Protection will alert them. It will also prompt them to change their password so attackers cant gain access to their account.
- Reusing work or school passwords makes it easy for attackers who compromise a users password to gain access to their other accounts. Enhanced Phishing Protection can warn users if they reuse their work or school Microsoft account password on sites and apps and prompt them to change their password. - Reusing work or school passwords makes it easy for attackers who compromise a users password to gain access to their other accounts. Enhanced Phishing Protection can warn users if they reuse their work or school Microsoft account password on sites and apps and prompt them to change their password.
- Since its unsafe to store plaintext passwords in text editors, Enhanced Phishing Protection can warn users if they store their work or school password in Notepad, Winword, or any M365 Office app and recommends them to delete their password from the file. - Since its unsafe to store plaintext passwords in text editors, Enhanced Phishing Protection can warn users if they store their work or school password in Notepad, Winword, or any M365 Office app and recommends them to delete their password from the file.
## Benefits of Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen ## Benefits of Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen
Enhanced Phishing Protection provides robust phishing protections for work or school passwords that are used to sign into Windows 11. Arm your users against credential phishing scams and enjoy: Enhanced Phishing Protection provides robust phishing protections for work or school passwords that are used to sign into Windows 11. Arm your users against credential phishing scams and enjoy: