Customer Key support for Microsoft Teams

Securing a company is getting more complex as technology advances, and constant learning and staying updated in this subject are crucial. Security is more than just a product, and knowing this will allow us to understand all the options we have. In today’s digital landscape, safeguarding sensitive information is paramount, and encryption plays a pivotal role in achieving this goal. Microsoft 365 recognizes the significance of data security and employs advanced measures such as baseline, volume-level encryption facilitated by BitLocker and Distributed Key Manager (DKM). This robust encryption framework ensures that your data remains protected, reinforcing the integrity of your organization’s most valuable asset. As an additional layer of security, Microsoft also offers the Microsoft customer key, allowing you to further enhance the protection of your data with personalized key management.

What’s the Microsoft 365 Customer Key? 

Microsoft 365 delivers this encryption through a built-on service, the Customer Key, which allows organizations to add a layer of encryption of their own.

Authorized users can provide and have complete control over the encryption keys. These are used to encrypt customers’ data in Microsoft datacenters. Once an organization creates a key, Microsoft 365 uses it to encrypt data at rest (this is described in the Online Services Terms).

Also, the customer has the option of creating data encryption policies (DEP), with the objective of encrypting certain data in Microsoft 365, for all tenant users. Although multiple DEPs can be created per tenant, there can only be one assigned at a time.