Microsoft Adds New Teams Controls to Block Unauthorized AI Bots From Meetings
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new Teams admin policy aimed at providing organizations with increased visibility and control over external bots joining their meetings.
With AI meeting tools becoming increasingly common, the lack of proper controls creates security and privacy risks, especially when sensitive information is being shared, and the new protections are intended to eliminate that.
To ensure that only intended participants join their meetings, organizations can now assign a new ‘Manage external bots and their access to meetings’ policy to individual users or specific groups from the Teams Admin Center.
By default, Teams now detects bots and asks for explicit organizer confirmation before admitting them to a meeting. Admins also have the option to disable this feature, and Teams will not perform bot detection.
“When enabled, Teams automatically detects potential bots, places them in the meeting lobby, clearly identifies them, and prompts organizers to confirm admission. Even in...
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