Smarsh Introduces Data-Loss-Prevention Solution for Microsoft Teams

Smarsh^®,
helping customers get ahead – and stay ahead – of the risk within their
electronic communications, today at Enterprise Connect introduced the
latest version of Control
for Microsoft Teams. The data-loss prevention (DLP) solution enables
customers to enforce internal policies, and to block and delete content
within Teams, strengthening compliance, risk and security efforts.

“Teams is the fastest growing application from Microsoft, and as a
featured component of Microsoft Office 365, it is fundamentally changing
how organizations communicate and collaborate,” said Anthony West,
Smarsh Chief Technical Officer. “Many organizations, including those
with rigorous FINRA or SEC regulatory obligations, are strategically
investing in Office 365 to reap the productivity benefits. When
deploying a rich, dynamic tool like Microsoft Teams, they require a
demonstrable layer of risk protection with proactive compliance
capabilities that enhance their mandated capture, retention and
supervision efforts.”

Teams conversations (one-to-one, multi-party and channel chats, with
emojis, GIFs, files, links and bots) are monitored in real-time using
DLP policies implemented within Control. When policy violations are
detected, Control performs DLP actions (such as delete and challenge)
that end users see in near-real-time within the native Teams application.

All Teams content, as well as full fidelity metadata and contextual data
(i.e. images, participants, chat room names), is captured in its native
format and available for ingestion into the Smarsh Connected
Archive or a customer’s existing archiving solution, in support of
regulatory compliance, e-discovery and/or recordkeeping initiatives.

“Our mutual customers benefit from the security of Microsoft Teams,
combined with data-loss prevention from Smarsh. Smarsh has a history of
helping Microsoft customers meet rigorous compliance and governance
requirements, and leveraging our APIs with applications like Control for
Teams provides even more options,” said Levon Esibov, partner pm
director, information protection, Microsoft Teams at Microsoft.

Control for Microsoft Teams is available now via
on-premise deployment for customers using DLP-enabled Office 365 SKUs. Smarsh
Control offerings are available for a growing number of social,
communication and collaboration channels, including Skype for Business
(on-premise). The application provides a single engine for enforcing
compliance policies across all applicable channels.

About Smarsh

Smarsh helps organizations get ahead – and stay ahead – of the risk
within their electronic communications. With innovative capture,
archiving and monitoring solutions that extend across the industry’s
widest breadth of channels, customers can leverage the productivity
benefits of email, social media, mobile/text messaging, instant
messaging/collaboration, websites and voice while efficiently
strengthening their compliance and e-discovery initiatives.

A global client base, including the top 10 banks in the United States
and the largest banks in Europe, Canada and Asia, manages billions of
conversations each month with the Smarsh Connected Suite. Government
agencies in 40 of the 50 U.S. states also rely on Smarsh to help meet
their recordkeeping and e-discovery requirements. The company is
headquartered in Portland, Ore. with nine offices worldwide, including
locations in Silicon Valley, New York, London and Bangalore, India. For
more information, visit www.smarsh.com.

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