Enterprise Mobility and Security

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...

Feb 1, 2024   |   Lukas Velush

Sharing what we learned deploying our secure federal environment

At Microsoft, we serve a diverse range of customers, from individual users and large businesses to sovereign governments with specific regulatory requirements. Our platform products such as Microsoft Azure and our Microsoft 365 productivity suite perform extremely well for these different customer segments. Underneath those broad strokes, we serve very specific, complex customers. One set...

Nov 16, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Moving to next-generation SIEM at Microsoft with Microsoft Sentinel

Our internal security team works diligently 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help protect Microsoft IP, its employees, and its overall business health from security threats. We recently implemented Microsoft Sentinel to replace a preexisting, on-premises solution for security information and event management (SIEM). With Microsoft Sentinel, we can ingest and appropriately...

Nov 7, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Learning from engineering Zero Trust networking at Microsoft

Our Microsoft Digital (MSD) team is deploying Zero Trust networking internally at Microsoft as part of our Zero Trust initiative, our comprehensive approach to verification and identity management. Powered by Microsoft’s internal security team, our Zero Trust model centers on strong identity, least-privilege access, device-health verification, and service-level control and telemetry across the entire IT...

Nov 6, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Sharing Microsoft’s Zero Trust networking lessons for leaders

Today we want to share the lessons we’re learning from deploying Zero Trust networking across Microsoft. In many enterprises, network security has traditionally focused on strictly secured and monitored corporate network perimeters. Today, in a mobile-first and cloud-first world, business network traffic exists outside the corporate network as much as it does within. The rate...

Nov 3, 2023   |   Pete Apple

Microsoft moves IT infrastructure management to the cloud with Microsoft Azure

We’re transforming our IT infrastructure management internally here at Microsoft. At Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE), we’re embracing our digital transformation and the culture changes that comes with it. With over 98 percent of our IT infrastructure in the cloud, we’re adopting Microsoft Azure monitoring, patching, backup, and security tools to create a customer-focused self-service...

Oct 30, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Managing user identities and secure access at Microsoft

[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.] Managing identities and network access at Microsoft encompasses all the processes and tools used throughout the identity...

Oct 26, 2023   |   Beth Garrison

Boosting employee connectivity with Microsoft Azure-based VWAN architecture

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in our ongoing series on moving our network to the cloud internally at Microsoft. Whether our employees are in neighboring cities or different continents, they need to communicate and collaborate efficiently with each other. We designed our Microsoft Azure-based virtual wide-area network (VWAN) architecture to provide high-performance networking across...

Oct 13, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

How modernization is helping Microsoft along its internal device management journey

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eteAvm72Ro, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Modernization is helping Microsoft move forward on its internal device management journey. If you’re in IT, you know device management is a challenge all companies face. It’s especially difficult...

Sep 26, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

Culture, the cloud, and security: learning from Microsoft’s digital transformation

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifym9DmqatA, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” A lot has changed in Microsoft Digital Employee Experience—our internal IT organization—since CEO Satya Nadella’s 2017 memo calling for the company to digitally transform. How do you get the...

Sep 25, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Managing Windows 10 devices with Microsoft Intune

[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 Digital is transforming the way that we manage devices for Microsoft employees. We’re embracing modern device...