Security Simplified: Secure Collaboration with Microsoft Teams
When an organization lacks efficient tools for collaboration, team members tend to share content by emailing documents. Mostly, these documents contain information only meant to be seen by team members. However, sharing this type of information and sensitive data over email is a highly unsafe mode of collaboration. Enabling secure and efficient collaboration is essential to an organization’s growth and success. To ensure secure collaboration, an organization must be able to easily and securely share sensitive data with team members for whom the information is intended.
What constitutes sensitive data?
When it comes to data, organizations usually have different levels of sensitivity and the risk of inappropriately sharing the data varies according to the sensitivity. For this reason, it is crucial for organizations to categorize the data by the level of sensitivity.
Ensure the security of sensitive data with the tools within Microsoft Teams:
There are three tiers within Microsoft Teams for categorizing sensitive data, which have an appropriate level of data protection.
In the Baseline tier of protection, there are public and private teams. Public teams grant data access to the entire organization, and private teams only grant access to the team members. With private teams, others within the organization can request access. When building a data protection solution, it is recommended to start with the baseline tier, then continue categorizing teams according to data sensitivity.
The Sensitive tier adds more security features, giving access and control to specific people.
The Highly Sensitive tier is meant for highly sensitive projects and allows very limited sharing capabilities within the organization. A team under this tier can be configured to have a specific sensitivity label that encrypts files and only allows members access to read.
By going the extra mile to follow these security steps, your data is more protected, allowing for more efficient and productive growth.