Microsoft Teams: Polls support in Teams Town hall [Premium]

🚨 The Signal: Teams Town Hall Premium now supports live polls. This feature introduces a new vector for information collection and potential data exfiltration, requiring careful governance and content moderation.

The Impact

Teams Premium users are affected, introducing a new risk of inappropriate content sharing or data leakage through polls.

• Town Hall organizers: Risk of inadvertently collecting sensitive data.
• Participants: Risk of exposure to inappropriate poll content.
• Security teams: Increased scope for monitoring and data loss prevention.
• Compliance teams: New content source for eDiscovery and retention policies.

The Action

1. Review existing Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies for Teams to ensure poll content is covered.
2. Educate Town Hall organizers on appropriate poll content and data handling best practices.
3. Configure Microsoft Teams messaging policies to manage user-generated content in polls.
4. Assess eDiscovery and retention policies in Microsoft Purview for poll data.

Domain: Teams · Impact: medium · Workload: Teams