July 2023

Jul 27, 2023   |   Jason Kellington

Sharing how Microsoft now secures its network with a Zero Trust model

Editor’s note: We’ve republished this blog with a new companion video. Safeguarding corporate resources is a high priority for any business, but how does Microsoft protect a network perimeter that extends to thousands of global endpoints accessing corporate data and services 24 hours a day, seven days a week? It’s all about communication, collaboration, and...

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...

Jul 18, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Shining a light on how Microsoft manages Shadow IT

Shadow IT is the set of applications, services, and infrastructure that are developed and managed outside of defined company standards. These line-of-business-built solutions (aka Shadow IT) have always existed at Microsoft and are a common industry problem. Over the years, corporate function teams—including business development, legal, finance, human resources, marketing and sales, support, and consulting—have...

Jul 17, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Microsoft creates self-service sensitivity labels in Microsoft 365

Empowering self-service is important to us at Microsoft. Every employee should be able to create the resources they need without engaging IT to do it for them. To support this level of freedom, we rely on a strong governance strategy to identify and protect valuable content. By ensuring accountability, our employees are able to create...

Jul 12, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

Make it easy but secure: Our journey to frictionless device management at Microsoft

With more than 200,000 employees each utilizing a handful of work and personal devices to get work done, the device management landscape at Microsoft is immense, complicated, and fraught with security risk. In short, the point at which our administrator responsibilities intersect with the experience our employees have with their devices has historically been full...

Jul 11, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

Deploying Microsoft Teams across Microsoft hinged on good governance

[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.] When Microsoft moved to Microsoft Teams for all communications, it needed a good plan. More than 250,000...

Jul 7, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

Unleashing the citizen developer in all of us with the Microsoft Power Platform

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FJd9RkHM6I, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Microsoft is empowering its citizen developers with the Microsoft Power Platform The power of Microsoft Power Platform is that it enables us all to become citizen developers. Utilizing no-code...