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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...

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...

Sep 22, 2023   |   Eric Scheffler

How we’re deploying our VWAN infrastructure using infrastructure as code and CI/CD

Editor’s note: This is the first in an ongoing series on moving our network to the cloud internally at Microsoft. We’re building a more agile, resilient, and stable virtual wide-area network (VWAN) to create a better experience for our employees to connect and collaborate globally. By implementing a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) approach to building...

Aug 2, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

Running on VPN: How Microsoft is keeping its remote workforce connected

To ensure that employees had a reliable hybrid work experience at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Steve Means, principal cloud network engineering manager in Microsoft Digital Employee Experience, and his team set out to make sure that the company’s internal network would hold up. They were cautiously optimistic—the team had just rebuilt the entire...

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...