Is external forwarding in Exchange a security risk? #M365AMA

In this episode, the #M365AMA panel discusses the following community question:

“We’ve got a company email account “”support@”” that needs to forward to 1 external Gmail address (leave a copy in the inbox). The IT department is telling our boss “”external forwarding is a huge security issue”” I suspect think the IT company just doesn’t want to turn on the “”allow individual inbox forwarding”” and we suspect that’s maybe because he’s stuffing the license
what are your thoughts here?
1- is simple forwarding, while leaving the local copy in the inbox, really a big security issue that a simple non-government company would have to worry about?
2- is it possible that they are reselling the same license for multiple companies on the same box?”

Check out the discussion here:

 

Participating in this discussion were:

• Christian Buckley @buckleyplanet 
• Hal Hostetler @TVWizard
• Norm Young @stormin_30

Some relevant notes/links shared by the team:

• Your organization does not allow external forwarding in Office 365, via wintips.org [https://www.wintips.org/fix-your-organization-does-not-allow-external-forwarding-in-office365/]