It appears that a lot of Microsoft Teams users might be believing in the service too much, research has found..
Cybersecurity firm Hornetsecurity is encouraging companies to take more proactive actions against threats that could be posed through Microsoft Teams, the Microsoft Teams video conferencing platform.
According to the research the study found that nearly half (45 percent) of users have admitted to the sending of “confidential and sensitive” information often via Microsoft Teams.
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Then, an even greater percentage (51 percent) were identified as sharing “business-critical” information, while an equal amount (48 percent) of respondents mistakenly sent an Microsoft Teams message that should not have been sent, for instance as to the wrong recipient.
In the case of devices, criminals tend to be more likely to share sensitive information via devices that are personal (51 percent) as compared to equipment that is issued by work (29 percent). Evidently, the necessity of having devices that are professionally secured should be highlighted in training for employees.
Hornetsecurity offers this as one way to ease the burden on cybersecurity in companies with 56% of the respondents who believe that awareness and training of employees is the most crucial aspect to reduce risks.
The CEO of the company, Daniel Hofmann, explains that “companies must have adequate safeguards in place to protect and secure business data” as more employees use chat-like messaging applications.
If users want to share content on messaging, Hofmann says that companies should “ensure information and files shared across the platform are backed up in a secure, responsible way.”
This announcement comes two weeks after researchers from the University of Wisconsin Madison made the argument it was possible that Teams (and Slack) third-party applications may be vulnerable to security vulnerabilities. Because their code isn’t scrutinized through Teams’ and Slack’s dev teams, the possibility of leaks of data could be higher than previously thought.
