Right-Sizing Management & Security for Microsoft Teams & O365
Automate and enforce data protection in Microsoft Teams.
It’s no surprise that the pandemic has changed the way we work and collaborate. Digital Collaboration skyrocketed as organizations adapter to remote and hybrid work, BUT security challenges have accelerated as well. Even with G5 licenses like most of the State now have, Microsoft Admins find themselves in a tug-of-war between promoting rapid and easy collaboration for their users, and prioritize compliance and risk reduction.
On one hand, their users want rapid, easy collaboration. On the other hand, information security officers and executive teams need to prioritize compliance and risk reduction as part of their business continuity efforts.
More than 250 million monthly users now rely on Microsoft Teams. This rapid growth of users — and their data — underscore why IT administrators must have a deep understanding of their organization’s data ecosystem, including:
- What kinds of information exists in Teams?
- Where does our sensitive data live?
- Who can access the data (internal and external parties)?
- DID they access it? And if so, when?
- How are we enforcing Microsoft Teams security policies?
Like any critical business system, Teams must be proactively managed. But that’s easier said than done: Despite their best efforts, IT admins are weighed down by time-consuming, bulky, and inefficient processes that often require deep knowledge of PowerShell and require manually intensive analysis to ensure Microsoft Teams privacy. 63% of organizations report more than 8 hours per week performing routine tasks such as provisioning or manging permissions - that's over 10 weeks per year!
It is a complex job, it isn’t sustainable, and it puts your data at risk.
In this e-book, we’ll show you how to solve for these issues using Microsoft 365’s native, out-of-the-box functionality that is powerful but too often an “all-or-nothing” fix. We’ll also highlight a more efficient, personalized approach using third-party solutions from AvePoint designed to prevent oversharing across Microsoft 365 with automated policies that not only apply controls but also enforce them.
Microsoft Teams blends the best of both worlds. Users can collaborate quickly and in context across files, video, and chat, while security officers can leverage the robust security and compliance features of Microsoft 365. We believe that the bestway for organizations to handle and collaborate on sensitive data is NOT siloed in separate on-premise systems, but in the cloud within Microsoft Teams.
However, like any system fillwith critical business data, Microsoft Teams must be proactively managed to ensure data is secure. As we have seen in recent events, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of treatment.
Solving the collaboration security concerns caused by oversharing and rapidly growing environments is the best way for most organizations to kick off a more structure, secure, and efficinet digital transformation.
