security

May 30, 2024   |   Justin Couture

Empowering our employees with generative AI while keeping the company secure

Copilot for Microsoft 365 Deployment and Adoption Guide Read our step-by-step guide on deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 at your company. It’s based on our experience deploying it here at Microsoft: Full version eBook version Version for executives eBook version for executives Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly changing the way businesses operate, and everyone wants...

May 8, 2024   |   Sean O'Neill

Modernizing our Network Access Control Infrastructure with Azure

“How do I get on the Wi-Fi?” It’s often one of the first questions visitors ask when arriving at a new location, and here at Microsoft, it happens every day. Our guest Wi-Fi network is typically one of the first services used by visitors at Microsoft. We’re continually evaluating and improving guest Wi-Fi services to...

Apr 19, 2024   |   Summer Frederickson

Start reducing your organization’s Shadow IT risk in 3 steps

You’ve heard a lot about Shadow IT risk, but what is it and what should you do about it? Shadow IT is the set of applications, services, and infrastructure that are developed and managed outside of defined engineering standards. Experts predict somewhere between one-third to one-half of successful cyberattacks this year will be on Shadow...

Apr 3, 2024   |   Lukas Velush

Empowering employee self-service with guardrails: How we’re using sensitivity labels to make Microsoft more secure

At Microsoft, empowering our employees to do their best work means trusting them with self-determination. But to do that safely, we need clear data loss prevention systems in place. We describe it as self-service with guardrails. Giving employees that level of freedom relies on a robust governance strategy across our data estate that features employee-facing...

Mar 15, 2024   |   Lukas Velush

Looking back at deployment of Windows 11 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.] Windows 11, built on the same foundation as Windows 10, came to us at a time when...

Mar 4, 2024   |   Alex Fleck

Enhancing Microsoft’s security posture with Microsoft Azure Firewall Manager

Imagine an enterprise company with dozens or hundreds of firewalls, each with its own set of policies for keeping corporate networks secure. That was the situation here at Microsoft until our IT teams started using Microsoft Azure Firewall Manager. This platform helped streamline and centralize their control over our large firewall ecosystems. It also cleared...

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...

Jan 25, 2024   |   Bonnie Darves

Protecting Microsoft’s SAP workload with Microsoft Sentinel

For any large enterprise like Microsoft, monitoring threats to infrastructure and applications developing and maintaining an always-on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution like Microsoft Sentinel that’s equipped to ward off threats isn’t only a weighty task but also a truly challenging undertaking. The threat landscape is constantly evolving, and data breaches—originating from outside...

Jan 16, 2024   |   Inside Track staff

Optimizing Microsoft’s SAP environment with Microsoft Azure

At Microsoft, we use SAP enterprise resource management software to run our mission-critical business functions like finance and human resources. In an on-premises model, physical computing resources are costly and may go unused. But by moving our SAP systems to Microsoft Azure, we avoid maintaining unused resources—we scale our systems up and down for current...

Jan 8, 2024   |   Lukas Velush

Protecting against oversharing Power BI reports with Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Power BI is an essential tool for monitoring performance, identifying trends, and developing stunning data visualizations that many teams across Microsoft use every day. A well-built Power BI report can play a critical role in helping communicate business information efficiently and effectively. But with great Power BI reports comes great responsibility, which includes keeping...