security

June 19, 2024

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Josh Krenz

Building an anti-ransomware program at Microsoft focused on an Optimal Ransomware Resiliency State

Microsoft strives to deliver the productivity tools and services the world depends on. With this comes the responsibility of ensuring protection, continuity, and resilience from cyberattacks of all sorts—including emerging threats. Highlighted in the third edition of the Microsoft Digital…
June 6, 2024

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Inside Track bot

Creating a manageable Microsoft Azure subscription model

Editor’s note: This story was written by a bot powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI. The bot interviews subject matter experts in Microsoft Digital to generate new stories quickly. We have humans in the loop to ensure the accuracy and completeness…
May 30, 2024

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Justin Couture

Empowering our employees with generative AI while keeping the company secure

Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly changing the way businesses operate, and everyone wants to be in on the action. Whether it’s to automate tasks or enhance efficiency, the allure of what GenAI can do is strong. However, for companies considering…
May 8, 2024

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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…
April 19, 2024

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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…
April 3, 2024

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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…
March 15, 2024

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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,…
March 12, 2024

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Justin Couture

Lessons learned at Microsoft: Five steps you can take to reduce your ransomware risk

As a part of our journey to reduce our ransomware risk internally here at Microsoft, we’ve identified five principles that we believe every enterprise should follow to make themselves more secure from these attacks. We call these our Foundational Five…
March 4, 2024

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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…
February 1, 2024

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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…
January 25, 2024

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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…
January 16, 2024

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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…

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