Securing Microsoft Teams with Highside

With the drive towards remote working many companies are leveraging the video conferencing, document sharing and instant messaging features of modern collaboration tools. While offering significant benefits these tools come with security issues, especially if they are used to gain access to internal and sensitive or confidential data.

A number of security concerns have been identified with Microsoft Teams, including:

• Guest users can be added and may see internal/sensitive content
• Teams can be used on unmanaged devices, potentially resulting in data loss
• Screen sharing may cause sensitive or confidential data to be displayed
  
• File uploads from guests or from unmanaged devices may contain malware
  
• File sharing in Teams can cause loss of confidential data
  
• Teams App integration can mean that data may be sent to untrusted destinations
  
• Data can be accessed by Microsoft employees or privileged administrators
• Encryption keys are controlled by Microsoft

HighSide’s SecureTeams is the only Microsoft approved encryption module for Microsoft Teams. HighSide’s secure Microsoft Teams extension is a distributed key management and encryption system that runs on top of your existing Microsoft Teams deployment. It enables the secure sharing of sensitive information and data including PII, financial data, passwords, etc., all from within Microsoft Teams. SecureTeams is deployed with just a few clicks and not only safeguards your data, it enables you to meet compliance frameworks from HIPAA to ITAR, to GDPR and more.

HighSide customers include military/government and Fortune 100 organizations, law firms and healthcare companies; Highside’s end-to-end encryption protocol is used to protect sensitive data and IP from sophisticated attackers and nation-states.

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