MS Teams is connecting to some strange endpoints/IP addresses

Question

MS Teams is displaying some very strange behaviour - there are some very suspicious endpoints connecting to it. The security teams believe it's not a malicious endpoint but I believe MS Teams should only be connecting to a Microsoft endpoint, not even a Microsoft "hosted" endpoint, and definitely not to one in Akamai.

Below is a screen shot of the endpoint:

Can anyone please verify if MS Teams should be connecting to this endpoing?

Answer 1

Hi @Lita Teng

It looks like Microsoft and Akamai have a long relationship (dating back to 1999). Most likely that akamaitechnologies.com is a content delivery network backbone for Microsoft Teams.

The companies also announced that Microsoft made an approximately $15 million investment in Akamai. The goal of this strategic relationship is to help further the rapid growth of the digital media market.

https://news.microsoft.com/1999/09/27/microsoft-and-akamai-form-strategic-relationship-to-enhance-internet-content-delivery/

This means that what you are seeing is completely normal.

---------------------------------

If this is helpful please accept answer.