Microsoft improves security in Teams to make it more reliable to work remotely while we are confined at home

In these days we live, teleworking occupies a fundamental part in the lives of many people. Faced with a possible loss of employment, teleworking from home is a more than valid option but for this it is necessary to have the right tools and that these are also safe

Microsoft has different options among them. Skype, OneDrive, To-Do, Teams… all these applications can be used to improve remote work. And if we recently saw how To-Do and OneDrive were updated, now we are left with the improvements that come to Teams, changes aimed at achieve greater security in working from home

Telework but safely

Microsoft Teams is an app designed to manage workflows in both educational and business environments A utility whose premise is to improve the performance and productivity in the aforementioned environments, promoting the connection between users to help in the management of shared work.

Microsoft has collaborated with Abnormal Security and has implemented improvements in Microsoft Teams aimed at improving user privacy. The aim is to prevent a cyber attacker from gaining access to data such as access codes, passwords... something that can be easier via teleworking, since workers are not subject to to the control of systems within the company.

What this enhancement enables, a feature that goes by the name of Okta's Identity Cloud, is that phishing messages can be controlled , phishing, which can be sent in Microsoft Teams.Through the Office 365 API, where this functionality is integrated, Outlook controls email in the cloud by flagging possible suspicious emails.

What the system does is automatically detect suspicious messages sent within a client's Microsoft Teams environment to prevent these emails from can be disseminated and reach the potentially affected person.

Now that teleworking is becoming more important than ever, you cannot simultaneously neglect the security of equipment and users. A complement, this one from Microsoft, which is used to help control systems to protect our equipment.

Via | BetaNews