How secure is your Microsoft Teams? – Steve Nesbitt – Ep129

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Over the last few weeks the use of collaboration tools has grown exponentially as they have become critical to enterprises of all types to enable their staff to continue to work together and to keep business moving in these most challenging of times. Many of them have moved from business tools to household names, now everyone knows what a Zoom meeting is and of course, we are all familiar with the phrase "living in Microsoft Teams". While Teams itself is an excellent collaboration tool, easy for users to work with and to work together on, its backend complexity can be a challenge, especially as much of that complexity is hidden from not only users but administrators too which leads to increased risks that can impact your sensitive data assets. That problem has inspired this week's show, my guest is Stephen Nesbitt of Varonis, Steve has been with them for about a year, but before that had worked for Microsoft with a particular focus on SharePoint. Recently I recorded a video with Steve highlighting some of the challenges and risks that deploying Teams can present and I thought it would be great to get that information shared on the podcast too, so here it is! We cover. What is teams and why does it exist? Teams simplicity is part of the problem! The Teams security conundrum. What creating a Team really does? Teams "sprawl". How do you keep an eye on Teams usage? Native tools and their limitations. What Varonis can add to Teams to secure your "sensitive data". Teams is not "full of holes" but you need to know where the risk lies. Teams can both enable "transformation" and limit it – just putting it in the cloud is not enough! Over the last couple of months, I've spoken with many organisations who have rolled out Teams and have all been unaware of some of the challenges it poses, I'm hoping this podcast and Steve's eagerness to help to educate those using Teams will help all of us mitigate the risks that it presents so we can use this extremely powerful product without putting our data assets at risk. If you'd like to contact me, either with an idea for a show or would like to appear as a guest you can contact me on twitter @techstringy or email the show at [e-mail]. Until next time, thanks for listening. Full show notes are here :- https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1L8