Microsoft Teams and Sensitive Information
October 13, 2022
I read a somewhat unusual analysis of Microsoft Teams security. “Microsoft Teams Users Are Using It for a Really Bad Reason, So Stop Now” presents some data about Teams’ users and their sending information over the system. Now the purpose of Teams and similar conferencing software is to exchange information. Therefore, access to Teams sessions and the data exchanged while using the using may have some value to certain individuals if such access were available.
Okay, now let’s look at some of the numbers in the write up:
- 45 percent of those in the sample (who knows how many were in the sample by the way?) “admit to sending confidential and sensitive information frequently via Microsoft Teams.” Now let’s think about this. Does this mean that 55 percent of those using Teams do not provide “confidential or sensitive information”? Is this a measure of productivity which Teams enhances?
- 51 percent were found to be “sharing business critical information.” I am not sure I understand the distinctioin between “sensitive” and “business critical. The idea that half of those using Teams don’t share important data.
- 56 percent believe training is needed.
Net net: Microsoft may have to do more than silence Teams’ blowhards. See “Microsoft Is Working Hard to Shut Up the Egotistical Blowhard on Your Team.”
Stephen E Arnold, October 15, 2022
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