After the COVID-19 pandemic forced a sudden closure of in-person workplaces, DLA Piper worked quickly to get thousands of employees set up to work remotely. “Firm leadership wanted to get Microsoft Teams released quickly, but we didn’t want a Teams release turning into the ‘wild, wild west,’” Omar Ibrahim, senior manager for applications and engineering at DLA Piper, said about the collaboration platform. “So, we asked: ‘OK, what guardrails can we get in place?’”

In the past year and a half, two of the buzzwords we’ve all been hearing constantly are “remote work” and “the cloud.” Indeed, this is the new work ecosystem we find ourselves in, and people in industries around the world are seeing it unfold in realtime.

If you throw 10 coins into a bucket holding 10 average employees, (representative of the sample of all employees) you’re likely to hit an employee that uses Microsoft Teams for daily tasks almost 7 out of the 10 times. In other words, the use of Microsoft Teams across businesses worldwide has dramatically increased in the past year.

In 2018 the European GDPR irrevocably changed the whole data privacy landscape. Since it was implemented, there have been a host of other privacy regulations such as CCPA, CMMC, and India PDP, coming into force around the world.