Microsoft Teams users are using it for a really bad reason, so stop now
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It seems that many Microsoft Teams users may be trusting the service a little too much, new research has claimed.
Cybersecurity firm Hornetsecurity is urging companies to take more preventive measures against potential threats using the Microsoft Teams video conferencing platform.
According to the survey, nearly half (45%) of users admit to regularly sending “confidential and sensitive” information through Microsoft Teams.
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Worse, an even higher figure (51%) was found to be sharing “business-critical” information, while a similar number (48%) of respondents had accidentally sent a Microsoft Teams message that shouldn’t have been sent, such as to the wrong person. person.
When it comes to devices, offenders are more likely to share confidential information with a personal device (51%), compared to a work-issued device (29%). It is clear that the importance of using professionally secured devices should be emphasized in staff training.
Hornetsecurity proposes this as a solution to ease the pressure on corporate cybersecurity, citing 56% of survey participants who believe that employee training and awareness is the most important aspect of mitigating risk.
The company’s CEO, Daniel Hofmann, explains that “companies must have adequate safeguards in place to protect and secure company data,” as more and more employees use chat-like messaging services.
If users want to continue sharing content via chat, Hofmann says companies should “ensure that information and files shared on the platform are backed up in a secure, responsible manner.”
This news comes just a few weeks after University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers claimed that Teams (and Slack) third-party apps may have some worrisome security flaws. Because their code is rarely analyzed by Teams and Slack’s development teams, the potential for data breaches could be greater than expected.