Microsoft Team now encrypts your calls

Microsoft Teams is a software that has become quite popular over the last two years due to the situation created by the COVID-19 pandemic that has forced many people to rely on reliable services to continue to do their work and / or study. from home. For example, a few months ago we told you about the introduction of a new option that allows you to activate or deactivate chats during meetings, as some employers have noticed that their employees often found themselves paying more attention to that. what you were saying in chat rather than at the actual meeting. Or, if we go further back, we have informed you of the implementation of a simplified management of shared files, a very welcome and useful feature for many users.

Photo Credit: Microsoft Today, as reported by colleagues at The Verge, Microsoft has implemented support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for one-to-one calls and has already made an update available that offers IT administrators the ability to enable and control this functionality. John Gruszczyk, Microsoft's technical product manager, said:

Multiple corporate customers in the US and Europe in industries such as aerospace, manufacturing, telecommunications and professional services are implementing E2EE calls for Teams .

Specifically, Microsoft Team encrypts data in transit and at rest, allowing authorized services to decrypt the content for data retention purposes. The Redmond company also uses SharePoint encryption to protect inactive files and OneNote encryption for notes stored in Teams. All chat content is also encrypted, both in transit and inactive.

However, please note that certain functions, such as recording, real-time transcription, call transfer, suspend or merge will all be disabled in one-to-one calls using E2EE.