{"id":43402,"date":"2021-10-14T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/blog\/?p=98781"},"modified":"2021-10-14T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T16:00:33","slug":"archtis-and-microsoft-zero-trust-information-security-for-microsoft-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/archtis-and-microsoft-zero-trust-information-security-for-microsoft-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"archTIS and Microsoft: Zero Trust information security for Microsoft Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft Teams<\/a> has seen a surge in growth during the pandemic with over 115 million daily active users and growing.1<\/sup> With it, customer imperative for enabling safe and trustworthy online collaboration has also increased significantly. The speed and simplicity of Teams business users creating new teams and channels demands that IT and security groups have advanced tools and controls they might need to ensure business-critical information is properly protected.<\/p>\n

archTIS\u2019 NC Protect<\/a> has integrated with Microsoft Information Protection<\/a> (MIP) to empower IT and business owners to easily create secure teams and channels and enable guest access, enforcing Zero Trust<\/a> policies at the file, chat, and message level to prevent accidental sharing, misuse, and data loss.<\/p>\n

Human error is a vulnerability to your security<\/h2>\n

Many organizations struggle to keep track of data and ensure their information security, sharing, and usage policies are being followed. This can pose a serious risk when you consider 63 percent of insider-related incidents are the result of negligence and simple human error, with another 23 percent related to criminal insiders.2<\/sup><\/p>\n

From sharing confidential files or sensitive information with the wrong recipient to including regulated or confidential data in a chat, these costly mistakes are hard to avoid if you rely upon user behavior and training to protect your data. Worse, some organizations try to solve the problem by turning off information sharing and guest access in Teams altogether.<\/p>\n

Better together: NC Protect and Microsoft Information Protection<\/h2>\n

NC Protect leverages Microsoft security investments to further prevent data loss and insider threats with data-centric information security that applies Zero Trust principles to dynamically adjust access and information protection in Microsoft Teams.<\/p>\n

By combining MIP sensitivity labels and Microsoft Azure Active Directory<\/a> (Azure AD) attributes with NC Protect\u2019s dynamic user- and attribute-based policies to control access, usage, and sharing, customers benefit from expanded protection and control over Teams collaboration to:<\/p>\n