Most individuals find that working from home raises security and regulatory compliance concerns since home networks lack the same level of IT control as those found in the office environment.
Microsoft Teams engineers realized that distant employees shouldn’t have to give up productivity for the sake of security, so they made changes to the platform to address this concern.
Microsoft Teams Security and Compliance Integration Tools
1. Privacy Protection
When your departments utilize Teams, the platform gets access to your most sensitive data, both corporate and personal. Platform users have complete control over how their data is distributed, used, and collected thanks to the
platform’s security features and architecture. Other privacy steps taken by Teams include:
- Never serving ads to you through your Teams account.
- Enabling you to use your data whenever and however you choose.
- Data deletion following subscription termination.
- Not keeping track of multitasking during Teams meetings.
- Providing you with periodic reports of your progress.
2. Personal Information And Account Security
Using Multi-Factor Authentication reduces the risk of your
account being hacked by 99.9%, according to Microsoft research. The use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) requires you to give extra information when signing in in order to validate the identity and prevent hackers from exploiting weak passwords.
Conditional access allows you to create regulations for access depending on a variety of factors such as user type, device IP address, and other factors such as membership status. Microsoft Endpoint Manager provides a unified dashboard for managing all of your apps and devices.
3. Support For 90+ Regulations
Data usage, storage, and disposal through Microsoft Teams are all within the authority of your account administrator. Monitoring, managing, and discovering data are all accomplished via the use of sophisticated tools. It is now possible for users to quickly and easily locate, handle, and save information using eDiscovery technology.
There are retention strategies in place to guarantee that your firm is functional and protected while also complying with administrative and regulatory policies (this is especially crucial in highly regulated sectors).
4. Controls For Meetings
IT administrators may enhance Teams’ security by mandating subscription on managed and non-managed devices with the help of Microsoft’s Intune platform. If the person or device does not meet the requirements, a notification will be displayed, and repair instructions will be provided via the Intune Company Portal app.
5. Data Protection
Every day, Microsoft analyses more than 8 trillion security signals, which it then leverages to defend users from cyberattacks and other security risks. Microsoft does this by encrypting data transmitted among users’ systems and Microsoft datacenters via industry-standard protocols like SRTP and TLS.
Microsoft’s Data Loss Prevention software helps to safeguard sensitive data such as financial data and personally identifiable information from being lost or compromised. Additionally, restricting who has access to discussions and information will make it easier to track your Teams accounts.
Conclusion
Using Teams’
Data Loss Prevention policy, you can monitor critical data in apps like SharePoint, OneDrive, and Outlook. You can also set restrictions in your DLP strategy that inform your IT team if something goes wrong. In addition, DLP provides for a variety of hybrid work environments. This model may be customized for each location, with its own set of rules and policies. When you add Teams Data Loss Prevention, the threats to your business are identified, quantified, and prioritized.
