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Apr 3, 2024   |   Aleenah Ansari

Using a Zero Trust strategy to secure Microsoft’s network during remote work

[Editor’s note: This content was written to highlight a particular event or moment in time. Although that moment has passed, we’re republishing it here so you can see what our thinking and experience was like at the time.] Microsoft’s cloud-first strategy enables most Microsoft employees to directly access applications and services via the internet, but...

Mar 22, 2024   |   Dodd Willingham

Getting to ‘search completeness’ internally at Microsoft

Microsoft is a big company with thousands of teams working in different ways based on the work they do. Despite that complexity, when our employees go looking for something, they expect an internal search portal that will find exactly what they’re looking for instantly—just like when they search on the internet. Yet when talking to...

Jan 11, 2024   |   Inside Track staff

Enhancing VPN performance at Microsoft

Modern workers are increasingly mobile and require the flexibility to get work done outside of the office. Here at Microsoft headquarters in the Puget Sound area of Washington State, every weekday an average of 45,000 to 55,000 Microsoft employees use a virtual private network (VPN) connection to remotely connect to the corporate network. As part...

Sep 14, 2023   |   Danni White

Using Microsoft Azure AD entitlement management to empower Microsoft employees and protect the company

Microsoft is leveraging identity governance capabilities in Microsoft Azure AD entitlement management (EM) service to give its employees access to the files and resources they need to do their jobs while preventing them from accessing information they shouldn’t see. Until recently, those kinds of protections had to be implemented by hand for each individual work...

Jul 18, 2023   |   Mark Skorupa

Microsoft’s digital security team answers your Top 10 questions on Zero Trust

Our internal digital security team at Microsoft spends a fair amount of time talking to enterprise customers who face similar challenges when it comes to managing and securing a globally complex enterprise using a Zero Trust security model. While every organization is unique, and Zero Trust isn’t a “one size fits all” approach, nearly every...

Mar 13, 2020   |   Aleenah Ansari

How Microsoft is transforming the way it fights security threats

The Microsoft Digital Security and Resilience (DSR) team is committed to protecting customer and employee data every day. This is underpinned by a Zero Trust strategy, supported by new analysis methods for identity compromise, and reinforced by security training and awareness campaigns. Bret Arsenault, corporate vice president and chief information security officer at Microsoft, and...

Feb 19, 2020   |   Aleenah Ansari

How Microsoft is transforming its approach to security training

In a defining moment, Microsoft employees did the right thing. Ken Sexsmith recalls waiting quietly outside a conference room for a meeting about a new approach for promoting the annual security training at Microsoft. Earlier that day, his team, which is responsible for enterprise-wide digital security education, training, and awareness, was running a company-wide phishing...