Microsoft Teams now has end-to-end encryption assist for one-to-one calls

Microsoft is rolling out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) assist for Microsoft Teams. After saying the characteristic earlier this 12 months and testing a public preview since October, Microsoft Teams is getting the added E2EE safety assist for all one-to-one calls. An replace is rolling out to all Teams customers at the moment, giving IT admins the choice to allow and management E2EE for one-to-one calls.

“Multiple enterprise customers in the US and Europe across industries such as aerospace, manufacturing, telecommunications, and professional services are in the process of rolling out E2EE for Teams calls,” explains John Gruszczyk, a technical product supervisor at Microsoft.

Microsoft Teams at the moment encrypts knowledge in transit and at relaxation, permitting approved companies to decrypt content material for knowledge retention file functions. Microsoft additionally makes use of SharePoint encryption to safe at-rest information and OneNote encryption for notes saved in Microsoft Teams. All chat content material in Teams can be encrypted in transit and at relaxation.

This new E2EE encryption will additional safe one-to-one calls inside Teams, however it does imply sure Teams options might be disabled if IT admins allow it. Recording, stay caption / transcription, name switch, name park, name merge, and options like transferring calls to a different gadget or including contributors to create a bunch name will all be disabled in one-to-one calls that use E2EE.