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Worth Reading – Beyond Chat: The Hidden Dominoes When You Create a Microsoft Team
Everything about Teams—security, retention, eDiscovery, privacy, and so on— starts with understanding the data involved. To understand the data involved, you need to be familiar with all the details of this chain reaction. You’re not protecting and investigating data in a Teams channel; you’re dealing with data in Exchange, SharePoint, and potentially in various other locations, depending on the apps used in the channel.
OpenAI as Copilot Subprocessor
That seems significant. As someone who works in the legal industry, this is concerning. Some of our clients will not look kindly on us using any third-party tool that can’t provide SOC reports, and I know anyone working with the federal government is looking at that first bullet point about FedRAMP and wondering if they should make sure this isn’t enabled in their environment.
Who asked for this?
As I’ve said many times, Microsoft has invested too much money in AI to let users opt out of using it, even if it does ruin everything Microsoft has been known for.
Worth Reading – Microsoft Copilot Email and Teams Summarization Vulnerability Enables Phishing Attacks
If you can get Copilot to drop a link into the auto-summary, it would be less suspicious than an email sent from outside with a link. That’s probably true. After all, if you trust your AI Summarization tool to summarize the email instead of reading it, why wouldn’t you trust any links it included?
