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McAfee MVISION Cloud
provides secure management
of Microsoft Teams
McAfee MVISION cloud
enhances sensitive data
detection, collaboration
controls, threat protection and
activity monitoring capabilities
in Microsoft Teams.
McAfee, a device-to-cloud
cybersecurity company, has
announced that McAfee
MVISION Cloud now supports encryption
enhancements in Microsoft Teams, including
encrypted webhooks and encrypted payloads.
This enables organisations to improve
productivity of their employees by letting
them use Teams as a collaboration platform,
participate in conversations and calls
and upload and share documents while
ensuring customer data remains secure
with encryption when evaluated by McAfee
MVISION Cloud. By staying abreast of the
enhancements in Teams, McAfee MVISION
Cloud remains one of the only Cloud Access
Security Brokers (CASB) that is Certified for
Microsoft Teams.
Working from home has become a new
reality for many as more and more
companies are requesting that their staff
work remotely. Teams, the hub for teamwork
in Microsoft 365, integrates the people,
content and tools employees need to be
more engaged and effective.
Microsoft has seen an unprecedented spike
in Teams usage with more than 44 million
daily users – a figure that has grown by
12 million in just seven days. Those users
generate over 900 million meeting and
calling minutes on Teams each day as
employees work from home. Employers must
not only educate their employees on digital
Rajiv Gupta, Senior Vice President and
General Manager of Cloud Security, McAfee
IT IS CRITICAL TO
HAVE THE RIGHT
GUARDRAILS IN
PLACE TO PROTECT
FROM ACCIDENTAL
DATA LEAKAGE OR
MISUSE.
security best practices but also give them
the tools to combat online threats that may
stem from remote work.
“Effective collaboration allows organisations
to accelerate business. However, it is
critical to have the right guardrails in place
to protect from accidental data leakage
or misuse,” said Rajiv Gupta, Senior Vice
President and General Manager of Cloud
Security, McAfee. “McAfee MVISION Cloud
provides these capabilities for Microsoft
Teams, assuring that only the right data
is shared with the appropriate internal
and external parties. This helps protect
corporate data and intellectual property,
and meet governance, risk and compliance
policies thus enabling effective and
safe collaboration.”
McAfee MVISION Cloud for Teams leverages
McAfee’s Cloud Access Security Broker
(CASB) technology in a single, unified
platform-offering a frictionless, cloud-native
solution for organisations to consistently
protect their data and defend against
threats in the cloud. MVISION Cloud for
Teams also provides:
• Modern data security. Extends existing
DLP policies to messages and files in all
types of Teams channels, enforcing policies
based on keywords, fingerprints, data
identifiers, regular expressions and match
highlighting for content and metadata.
• Collaboration control. Restricts
messages or files posted in channels
to specific users, including blocking the
sharing of data to any external location.
• Comprehensive remediation.
Enables auditing of regulated data
uploaded to Teams and remediates
policy violations by coaching users,
notifying administrators, quarantining,
tombstoning, restoring and deleting user
actions. End-users can autonomously
correct their actions thereby reducing the
burden on IT security teams.
• Threat prevention. Empowers
organisations to detect and prevent
anomalous behaviour indicative of insider
threats and compromised accounts;
captures a complete record of all user
activity in Teams and leverages Machine
Learning to analyse activity across multiple
heuristics to accurately detect threats.
• Forensic investigations. Provides rich
capabilities for forensics and investigations
including an auto-generated, detailed
audit trail of all user activity. •
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