FOR MICROSOFT TEAMS

Microsoft Teams Ethical Wall

information barriers

Control who can communicate with whom, using specific collaboration options.
Apply policies on external or internal users and groups.

Dynamic Policies

Granular control is offered based on groups, domains, users and applied dynamically based on the context ofcommunication.

Granular Policies

Policies can also be applied to flexibly control the types of communication such as direct messages, file sharing, screen sharing, audio and video

Policy Scopes

Policies can be applied to chat, channels and/or meetings depending on participant type (employee, external or guest)

What can the Ethical wall do?

See below typical policies implemented by the Ethical

HR Group

HR Group

Prevent HR group from sharing files with non-HR members

Block Finance Group

Block Finance Group

Block Finance Group from uploading any files to OneDrive, SharePoint or Teams

Allow only Teachers

Allow only Teachers

Allow only Teachers to Create new Teams in a School Tenant

Block communications

Block communications

Block communications between finance and research group

Block desktop sharing

Block desktop sharing

Block desktop sharing for a specific group

Allow only specific users

Allow only specific users

Allow only specific users/groups to communicate externally

Common problems
solved by the ethical wall

Block file sharing across the microsoft enviroment

Protect users privacy

Third-party or outsourced companies restriction

Notify participants about policy rules

Real-time compliance to serve multiple industries

SphereShield’s Ethical Wall (Information Barriers) for Microsoft Teams was designed as a ready-to-serve tool with the focus on granularity.

Financial services and trading

Banks, Investment funds, credit-card companies, insurance companies and accountancy firms need to comply with regulations such as FINRA, MiFID II or EMIR.

HealthCare institutions that need to comply with regulations such as HIPAA, need to control communications that could contain sensitive patient information.

Educational institutions often need to restrict communications to avoid behavior breaches and other unpleasant consequences.

Some Law Firms are required to prevent lawyers communicating with each other to avoid conflict of interests.

Highlights

Control all communication interactions

Control all communication interactions

SphereShield Ethical Wall - Information Barriers enables you to block and control voice, files, chat, video and screen sharing. Rules can be reciprocal (both parties blocked) or one-sided.

Rule-based enforcement

Rule-based enforcement

Apply unlimited granular policies through robust policy enforcement that define permitted operations and content between communicating parties.

Complete auditing and reporting

Complete auditing and reporting

Obtain complete information regarding violation attempts for training and awareness. Admins can be configured to be notified as incidents happen.

Simple and powerful

Simple and powerful

Rules are configured in a simple and intuitive web interface for ease of usage for compliance administrators. Rules are automatically implemented in almost no time from creation.

Cover all Microsoft Teams scopes

Cover all Microsoft Teams scopes

SphereShield Ethical Wall - Information Barriers for Microsoft Teams covers all scopes: Chat, Meetings and Teams & Channels

SaaS or On-Premise installation

SaaS or On-Premise installation

SphereShield Ethical Wall - Information Barriers for Microsoft Teams can be used both as a SaaS where no installation is required, or installed in the customer's DMZ or Cloud (Azure, AWS, etc.)

What
people say

“

Our communication control in Microsoft Teams has never been better thanks to your Ethical Wall product. Highly satisfied!”

Hardik Joshi, AFNI.com

Flexible and simple policy creation

Step 1

Set Policy Conditions
SphereShield Allows creating multiple Ethical Wall policies using a variety of parameters quickly and intuitively.First, users need to define the conditions on which the policy should apply on.

Conditions describe who the policy applies to, based on domains, groups and users. Groups can be fetched from your local AD or Azure AD.

Step 2

Policy Rules
After that, the user selects which communication is going to be blocked or allowed. Choose between Chats, FileSharing, Audio in Meetings, Video in Meetings and Screen Sharing. The Ethical wall also controls meeting planning. If a policy is set to restrict video or audio, it will automatically cancel the meeting planned for the parties.

Step 3

Manage Company Policies
Once done, the user can save and organize policies as needed. SphereShield works like a firewall and scans policies from top to bottom. The policies will be applied with almost immediate effect. .

Licenses

Internal control by Groups /Users (Allow/Block)

External Control by External User (Allow/Block)

Granular Control Capabilities (IM’s/files/audio/video/ screen sharing)

Can be fully controlled by compliance role only

Web User Interface (GUI) Easy to operate

Notifications to end-user/admin

Incident auditing for compliance awareness and training

Reports by user/policy/domain

External system integration/SIEM

Control Which Teams can add guest (coming soon)

Price/User/Month

Office 365

E3

E5

$5.00/
$20.00

$35.00

Office 365

SPT2

(E.W License)

Up to 90% less

How Ethical wall works?

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