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Organizations worldwide are looking for innovative ways to organize and manage enterprise information, to both facilitate collaboration and reduce costs. The draw to the cloud is clear: it gives organizations the flexibility to support their de-centralized workforce’s productivity, no matter where they work, for a reduced total cost of ownership and a consolidated IT infrastructure. So it wasn’t surprising when, in the midst of a global pandemic, deployments of cloud solutions across enterprise workplaces exponentially rose. But many organizations did so quickly and without security considerations in mind for their Office 365 deployments, which are a treasure-trove of potentially sensitive and unprotected information.
In fact, a recent survey by my company, “Impact of COVID-19 on Workplace Collaboration,” found three-quarters of organizations deployed Microsoft Teams over the past year without proper governance or security in place. Additionally, while most IT teams express confidence in their compliance, only about a quarter do routine governance, compliance and security tasks, leaving them susceptible to both internal and external threats.
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