Security News > 2021 > June > Organizations leveraging Microsoft Teams exposed to potential risk

Despite a quick pivot to digital, most companies did not have a roll out plan: Since the speed of deployment was crucial to workplace productivity, 75% of organizations deployed Microsoft Teams without proper governance or security in place, leaving them vulnerable to internal and external threats.

Consistent with the over 145 million daily active Teams users Microsoft recently announced, only 3% of companies do not leverage Teams today.

Further, regular Office 365 usage jumped from 48% pre-pandemic to now 76%. Increased Microsoft Teams usage is creating more demand for collaboration security, but blockers remain: Despite widespread adoption of new digital communications tools, 43% of companies believe making them compliant is challenging.

37% want to invest in Teams governance and management in the future to reduce the burden on IT and more confidently ensure they are compliant with regional and industry specific guidelines like records - which only 23% of companies capture across Teams.

IT teams experienced heightened demand: 48% of organizations' IT teams need hours or days to create digital workspaces like Microsoft Teams or SharePoint once requested by employees, which can lead to low adoption and shadow IT. As a result of increased responsibilities, the biggest challenge for 56% of organizations is the surging burden on IT when it comes to managing and servicing new collaboration tools.

"That's why there is a growing need for governance automation for any company leveraging tools like Microsoft Teams."

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