All of these capabilities related to detection and response to security threats in Teams will be available in a unified manner on Microsoft 365 Defender to enable correlation with security signals from other endpoints too. Since many people share sensitive and business-critical information through files and messages across Teams, Microsoft has decided to bring the security mechanisms which protect your email environments to Teams too. This toolset is only available for customers with Microsoft E5, Microsoft E5 Security, or Microsoft Defender for Office 365 licenses. Microsoft has dubbed these security features 'Collaboration Security' and launched a public preview for it. As such, the Redmond tech firm has now announced a range of advanced security features for certain Teams customers through Microsoft Defender 365. Microsoft boasts that the software has 270 million users currently, however, this also makes Teams an attractive attack surface for malicious actors. Microsoft Teams is one of the most used online communication and collaboration platforms in enterprise environments.

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