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Microsoft will soon release a new security feature for the web version of its popular collaboration and productivity platform Microsoft 365, over the next several months.

The company’s Product Manager for Office Identity made the announcement explaining that IT administrators would be able to set up a tenant-wide timeout policy. As per this policy, the IT managers will have the authority to automatically sign out users after a duration of being inactive on Microsoft 365 web apps.

As of now Outlook and SharePoint already have this feature. This will soon be available for the web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, and the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Customer feedback

Since the pandemic began, many businesses have been struggling with employees no longer working in the safety of the workplace. This new function was implemented as a solution after receiving community feedback.

Depending on several customer dialogues and feedback sessions. This became clear that users were searching for a more anticipated and consistent solution covering all of Microsoft 365 online apps.

To balance employee productivity and security to satisfy corporate security needs you can use idle session timeout control on Microsoft 365.

Microsoft thinks that this feature would strengthen the overall security ecosystem of enterprises that use its collaboration platform.

Microsoft Teams parent company believes remote workers using personal devices and other people’s endpoints located in coffee shops and libraries, pose a distinct threat to the company.

There are many workers who occasionally leave their Microsoft 365 accounts logged in. This could reveal important data to anyone who uses the device after them.

In addition to being more secure, Microsoft thinks that such a tool would assist organizations in remaining compliant with data privacy laws and regulations.