network

September 6, 2024

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Aleenah Ansari

How Microsoft kept its underwater datacenter connected while retrieving it from the ocean

[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…
April 3, 2024

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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…
November 7, 2023

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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…
September 22, 2023

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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…
August 2, 2023

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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…
July 18, 2023

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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…
December 12, 2018

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Idunn Wolfe

Climbing to the edge of the world to help children leap across the opportunity divide

It isn’t for the faint-hearted. Few places on earth can echo the harsh, alien environment of the Himalayan mountains in the winter, and fewer still are the number of people who live there. Those who do, the Sherpa of Khumbu,…

network

How Microsoft kept its underwater datacenter connected while retrieving it from the ocean

Using a Zero Trust strategy to secure Microsoft’s network during remote work

Learning from engineering Zero Trust networking at Microsoft

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

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

Microsoft’s digital security team answers your Top 10 questions on Zero Trust

Climbing to the edge of the world to help children leap across the opportunity divide