A new study claims that almost half (45%) of users submit “confidential and sensitive” information via Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams users have placed too much trust in the application. A recent study revealed that almost half of Microsoft Team users are using the platform to share business data. Hornetsecurity, a network security The company in recent research said that nearly 45% of Microsoft Teams users communicate “confidential and sensitive” data through the platform. They also said that nearly 51% of users were found to be exchanging “business-critical” information, while nearly 48% admitted to sending messages through Microsoft Teams that they shouldn’t have.
Attackers prefer to use their own, non-work-released devices (51%), rather than company-issued ones one (29%), while sharing sensitive information. Therefore, Hornetsecurity believes that this helps reduce the burden of cybersecurity on businesses. CEO Daniel Hofmann is quoted as saying that “businesses must have appropriate safeguards in place to preserve and secure corporate data” as more and more employees use messaging apps like conversation.
According to Hofmann, Microsoft Teams should “ensure information and files exchanged across the platform are backed up in a safe, responsible manner” if they want users to continue exchanging data in chat rooms. .
Just a few weeks ago, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced that third-party application Because Team (and Slack) may contain security issues because Team Slack’s development teams also don’t test their code correctly, and so it can lead to data theft.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has released Windows 11 Build to Dev Insiders with new features supporting third-party widgets and new video calling functions for Chat from Microsoft Teams. The new video calling feature will show a preview of the user’s video feed so you can’t correct your appearance or detect any background issues before the call is initiated. Widgets can be created for packaged Win32 applications.
