Protecting against Data Loss in Microsoft Teams Meeting Chats



In my recent blog called My Teams Security Slide I called out support for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Policies for Microsoft Teams. I think most IT Pros are very familiar with these native platform controls built into Microsoft 365 and may have already applied them to Microsoft Teams Chats and Channels.

One thing I always point out is these same polices will be applied during a Microsoft Teams Meeting to protect against accidental data loss from within the Meeting Chat. This short video demo provides an example use case:

So in the video above Joni invites Adele to a meeting in her Microsoft 365 tenant and is protected from erroneously sharing credit card information. But what happens when Joni is in a meeting that’s hosted in an external tenant?

She is still protected! Check this video out:

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