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Secure Collaboration with Microsoft Teams

The safety of our customers has always been paramount. Our RND team continuously researches and tests tools that provide high availability, privacy, and simplicity. One of them is Microsoft Teams, which we have been using since the very beginning.

MS Teams can help your organization raise security to a higher level.

Important Security and Privacy Features in MS Teams

Meeting Options

You decide who can join your meeting and who should wait in the lobby. As a meeting organizer, you can define presenters and attendees, control who can to present content, and remove participants during the meeting if needed.

Recording Access

Only meeting attendees and those who were invited to the meeting have access to the recording of the meeting. Recordings are located on the Microsoft Stream service and can be downloaded or shared according to specified permissions.

External Access

This feature enables Teams users from other organizations to join and work within specific teams and channels. It’s an essential feature when people from multiple organizations need to collaborate with each other.

Multi-Factor Authentication

A password alone is not sufficient for account protection anymore. To protect organizational accounts from attacks, there must be an additional form of identity verification. 3 PRO recommends the Microsoft MFA mobile application, which integrates fully with Microsoft’s Cloud services.

Advanced Threat Protection

Safeguards users from malicious content. When ATP identifies harmful content, it automatically locks it, so that users are unable able to open it or share it with other people.

Encryption

Audio/video traffic and chat messages are encrypted by SRTP – the Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol.

There are also many other features like Data Loss Prevention, Channel moderation, Communication compliance, Conditional access, etc. As each organization is specific, we recommend performing an analysis and providing consultations so that we can tailor the services to fit your organization’s needs.

Arrange Consultations Today!

In the current information technology landscape, organizations should regularly explore additional security features and functionalities. Our certified IT engineers can help you understand which steps you should take to become more secure.

Do not hesitate and contact us today!

Beware of Office 365 Phishing Attacks

No matter how hard your organization tries to protect employees and its customers, it is possible for determined individuals to find a way to bypass built-in security protections and steal your account credentials.

Here are two examples:

  • you will get an email with a notification that you have late tasks in the Planner
  • you will receive an email containing a link to a SharePoint document which is similar to standard SharePoint invitation

If you click on the link, a fake portal.office.com login page will appear.

What to do if your Office 365 account was hacked?

  • contact your IT support immediately
  • reset your password
  • remove mailbox delegates
  • disable mail forwarding rules
  • remove the global mail forwarding property
  • enable Multi-Factor authentication
  • set a complex password
  • enable mailbox auditing
  • deliver Audit Logs to the admin to review

Follow these steps to prevent phishing attacks

  1. Educate your colleagues about the dangers and the warning signs of phishing attacks.
  2. Do not click on a suspicious link from unknown email addresses/senders.
  3. Do not input your Office 365 account credentials into suspicious forms, or when a connection to a website is not secure.
  4. Always try to use two-factor authentication.
  5. Purchase and enable Advanced Threat Protection.

Use Advanced Threat Protection from the Security & Compliance Center

Advanced Threat Protection has a set of machine learning models with detection algorithms that can mitigate a very high percentage of phishing attacks. It is available in the Office 365 E5 plan, but you can also purchase it as an add-on to your existing Plans.

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