M365 Changelog: New Microsoft Teams recommendations in Microsoft Secure Score

MC267953 – Microsoft is adding five new security recommendations for Microsoft Teams.

When this will happen

Microsoft will begin rolling this out in mid-July and complete by the late August 2021.

How this affects your organization

Microsoft Teams customers will see the below five new improvement actions in Secure Score.

• Restrict dial-in users from bypassing a meeting lobby.
• Limit external participants from having control in a Teams meeting.
• Restrict anonymous users from starting Teams meetings.
• Require lobbies to be set up for Teams meetings.
• Configure which users are allowed to be present in Teams meetings.

What you need to do to prepare

Microsoft Secure Score is a measurement of an organization’s security posture. Access Microsoft Secure Score at https://security.microsoft.com/securescore. 

Microsoft Teams is one of the products that has improvement actions in Secure Score. Microsoft will continue to add suggested security actions on an ongoing basis.

Learn more

• Introduction to Microsoft Secure Score
• What’s new with Microsoft Secure Score