Microsoft Teams Is Getting Impersonation Protection Next Month

Microsoft Teams is getting a new security feature that could help users spot suspicious identities during meetings. The feature is essential as AI-powered impersonation become a growing concern in the online space.

Microsoft Teams will warn users about potential impersonation

Microsoft, in the official AI at Work Roadmap portal, notes that the feature helps users identify potentially deceptive meeting participants and organizers. When Teams detects a possible impersonation attempt, it will surface warnings and risk indicators to help users recognize suspicious identities before deciding whether to trust them.

Microsoft currently lists the feature as in development, with a planned November 2026 rollout for general availability. The feature will be available in Teams on desktop and Mac. The timing makes sense given the growing use of AI to impersonate people during calls.

In addition to this feature, Microsoft Teams is also working on integration with certified third-party providers that can detect synthetic or manipulated audio and video (deepfakes) during meetings. Those systems will analyze meeting media and send detection signals back to Teams, where users can act on them.

Not to forget, Teams already has controls that can identify external AI bots attempting to join meetings, with administrators able to automatically block identified external bots. The new impersonation protection feature could give Teams users another layer of protection against attackers using fake identities, cloned voices, manipulated video or other AI-assisted tricks to appear as someone they trust.