(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Admin policy to automatically block identified external meeting bots from joining meetings

🚨 The Signal: Teams will allow administrators to automatically block identified external meeting bots from joining meetings. This enhances meeting security by preventing unwanted bot access and reducing potential data exposure risks.

The Impact

Teams administrators are affected, gaining a new control to mitigate the security risk of unauthorised external bots joining meetings.

• Teams administrators: New policy control to manage meeting security.
• Meeting organizers: Reduced risk of bot disruption in their meetings.
• Organisations: Enhanced protection against data exfiltration or disruption by malicious bots.

The Action

1. Review existing Teams meeting policies for external access.
2. Navigate to Teams admin center > Meetings > Meeting policies.
3. Locate the 'Manage bots' setting within meeting protection policies.
4. Configure the new option to 'Automatically block identified external meeting bots'.
5. Apply the updated policy to relevant user groups or globally.

Domain: Teams · Impact: medium · Workload: Teams