Security and risk management
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Microsoft CISO advice: Explore our four tips for securing your customer support ecosystem
Microsoft business operations teams know all too well that cyberattackers seek to exploit customer support pathways. Tools that can unlock customer accounts or aid in troubleshooting issues in complex environments are a rich target. “The path attackers really like to…
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Powering the new age of AI-led engineering in IT at Microsoft
When generative AI burst into the mainstream, it landed in our IT engineering organization like a shockwave. There was excitement, curiosity, skepticism, and no shortage of questions about what this technology meant for the future of IT. At Microsoft Digital—the…
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Getting started with Windows Hello for Business and Day 1 authentication at Microsoft
At Microsoft, we’re relentlessly focused on modernizing our passwordless protections in ways that strengthen our identity and security for everyone at the company. At an organization the size of ours—with a global workforce, massive cloud footprint, and millions of identities…
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Protecting anonymity at scale: How we built cloud-first hidden membership groups at Microsoft
Some Microsoft employee groups can’t afford to be visible. For years, we supported email‑based communities internally here at Microsoft whose very existence depends on anonymity. These include employee resource groups, confidential project teams, and other sensitive audiences where simply revealing…
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Protecting AI conversations at Microsoft with Model Context Protocol security and governance
When we gave our Microsoft 365 Copilot agents a simple way to connect to tools and data with Model Context Protocol (MCP), the work spoke for itself. Answers got sharper. Delivery sped up. New patterns of development emerged across teams…
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Powering data governance at Microsoft with Purview Unified Catalog
Data fuels everything that we do here at Microsoft, from the daily operations that keep the business running to the innovations that shape the future. But as data sprawls across teams, systems, and borders, the task of ensuring that it…
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Deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot in five chapters
Deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot: A next-generation business tool Welcome to the new era of productivity Generative AI has captured the world’s attention, and businesses are taking notice. According to our Work Trends Annual Report, 70% of people would delegate as…
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Microsoft 365 Copilot for executives: Sharing our deployment and adoption journey at Microsoft
Deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot: Our guide for leaders Generative AI has captured the world’s attention, and businesses are taking notice. According to our annual Microsoft Work Trends report, 70% of people would delegate as much work as possible to AI…
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Keeping our content fresh, findable, and governed at Microsoft with AI-powered SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint is where business knowledge lives. As AI-driven capabilities, assistants, and agents have exploded onto the scene, new possibilities for managing that knowledge and presenting it to our employees are emerging. At Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, we’ve…
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Deploying Microsoft Agent 365: How we’re extending our infrastructure to manage agents at Microsoft
The number and sophistication of agents that our employees are building here at Microsoft is growing rapidly. To help us and all enterprises respond to this new opportunity, the company just announced Microsoft Agent 365 at Microsoft Ignite. This product…
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Moving from a ‘Scream Test’ to holistic lifecycle management: How we manage our Azure services at Microsoft
Nearly a decade ago, as we began our journey from relying on on-premises physical computing infrastructure to being a cloud-first organization, our engineers came up with a simple but effective technique to see if a relatively inactive server was really…
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Hardening our digital defenses with Microsoft Baseline Security Mode
Security isn’t just a feature—it’s a foundation. As threats grow more varied, widespread, and sophisticated, enterprises need to rethink how they protect their environments. That’s why we, in Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, took a necessary step forward and…