There has been lots of talk about End-to-end encryption in the UC space, now Microsoft will be joining the vendors that provide this option.
Today Microsoft Teams is of course encrypted, but the encryption ins between each user and Microsoft. This model offers a number of benefits, for example, Microsoft being able to add clever technologies like recording and transcription because they can “join” the call or meeting. However in some scenarios, maybe government communications as an example, the customer may wish to ensure there is no way Microsoft could listen in to the communication.
End to end encryption means the end-users in the session can communicate and each share keys that he communications service (in this case Microsoft) do not have, meaning there is no way for the provider to listen into or copy the messages/audio/video.
This might be preferred by some customers who want to ensure a third party, including Microsoft, could not listen in.
In this first release, customers will have the ability to enable E2EE for 1:1 unscheduled Teams calls. It will later expand to support scheduled calls and online meeting.
I would expect many limitations on features in these scenarios, certainly at their launch since lots of the “smarts” in Microsoft Teams meetings are via service side bots, like a recording.
Find out more in the Secure and compliant collaboration with Microsoft Teams Ignite session with John Gruszczyk on Wednesday.
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