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January 8, 2024

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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…
December 8, 2023

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Josh Krenz

Boosting Microsoft’s response to cybersecurity attacks with Microsoft Sentinel

Editor’s note: We’ve republished this blog with a new companion video. Sometimes you outgrow the capabilities of a well-loved tool—that’s exactly what happened to Microsoft and its on-premises Security Information Event Management (SIEM) system. Thanks to a timely assist from Microsoft…
December 7, 2023

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Lukas Velush

The future of Group Member Management: How Microsoft is leading the way with automation

Just as it is for everyone, maintaining accurate groups for email and apps such as Microsoft Viva and Microsoft Teams is challenging for us internally at Microsoft. Adding and removing employees from groups has been mostly a hand-cramping manual task,…
December 5, 2023

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Josh Krenz

Why Microsoft uses a playbook to guard against ransomware

When Microsoft’s Digital Security and Resilience (DSR) division set out to defend the company against human-operated ransomware, it faced several formidable challenges. In this form of ransomware, highly organized and sophisticated attacks by cybercriminals put major businesses, healthcare organizations, universities,…
November 16, 2023

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Lukas Velush

Sensitivity labeling: A new layer of security for Microsoft Teams Premium meetings

Microsoft Teams is where collaboration and connection happen. The wide array of digital artifacts that come from our employees’ day-to-day meetings—things like recordings, transcripts, and shared documents—need the same level of enterprise protection as the rest of our organization’s proprietary…
November 16, 2023

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Inside Track staff

Moving to next-generation SIEM at Microsoft with Microsoft Sentinel

Our internal security team works diligently 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help protect Microsoft IP, its employees, and its overall business health from security threats. We recently implemented Microsoft Sentinel to replace a preexisting, on-premises solution…
November 13, 2023

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Carmichael Patton

Sharing how Microsoft protects against ransomware

Anyone can fall victim to ransomware. As cybercriminals shift from wide-net approaches to focus on precision attacks against high-dollar targets, there is extra pressure for companies and governments to evaluate and defend themselves against ransomware attacks. This is why Microsoft…
November 6, 2023

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Inside Track staff

Sharing Microsoft’s Zero Trust networking lessons for leaders

Today we want to share the lessons we’re learning from deploying Zero Trust networking across Microsoft. In many enterprises, network security has traditionally focused on strictly secured and monitored corporate network perimeters. Today, in a mobile-first and cloud-first world, business…
October 30, 2023

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Inside Track staff

Managing user identities and secure access 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.] Managing identities…
October 25, 2023

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Lukas Velush

Unpacking Microsoft’s internal deployment of the first major update to Windows 11

[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.] Improvements to…
August 4, 2023

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Brian Fielder

Microsoft helps employees work securely from home using a Zero Trust strategy

When COVID-19 began its spread across the globe, Microsoft moved quickly to ensure our employees were able to work securely from home. Fortunately, we had a business continuity crisis plan in place that we used to guide our response. Our…
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…

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