microsoft: Microsoft Teams calls to finally get this important security update – Times of India

Microsoft Teams is all set to get a new update that will make it easy for you to protect your calls and messages in this service. Microsoft has announced that its video conferencing software will finally get end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in the upcoming days. This new update is expected to make it tough for hackers, fraudsters and other outside forces to get access to your Microsoft Teams account and the chats within, so that it can keep private or valuable information safe.
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Full E2EE is expected to arrive in Microsoft Teams calling by March 2022, as per an entry in the Microsoft 365 roadmap. The company mentioned, “End-to-end encryption is the encryption of information at its origin and decryption at its intended destination without the ability for intermediate nodes to decrypt. End-to-end encryption would be an optional mode of real-time media collaboration where one-to-one Teams calls between two parties would be end-to-end encrypted.”
The update is categorised as general availability, which means it should be available to all Microsoft Teams users across desktop and mobile — that also includes both Android and iOS. The company confirmed in October 2021 that it was putting E2EE in Teams on trial as it seems to enhance the security for its video calling platform.
With this update, Microsoft Teams users will soon be able to see an encryption indicator on the upper left corner of their display which will reveal whether the calls are encrypted or not. Microsoft Teams will also show a security code for each call that both parties will be able to verify on their respective ends.
Users should note that some Microsoft Teams features like — recording, live caption and transcription, Call Merge, Call park, Call transfer, Call Companion and the ability to add a participant to make a one-to-one call in a group call will not be available once E2EE is enabled.
Rival video calling platform Zoom was compelled to enhance its security protections after multiple high-profile “Zoom-bombing” incidents allowed outside parties to gatecrash into what was intended to be private calls.