security

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…
May 23, 2023

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Inside Track staff

Verifying identity in a Zero Trust model internally at Microsoft

Identity-driven security is a core pillar of our Zero Trust model. Identities define the Zero Trust security boundary, and we use identity as the primary factor in how we allow access to corporate resources. When an identity tries to access…
April 17, 2023

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Jason Kellington

Simplifying compliance evidence management with Microsoft Azure confidential ledger

The Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team is using Microsoft Azure confidential ledger to create a centralized evidence store to streamline auditing needs. This evidence store enables teams from across Microsoft to store records and data related to regulatory compliance…
April 16, 2023

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Inside Track staff

Understanding Microsoft’s approach to Zero Trust Networking with Microsoft Azure

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOjWCKwfwco, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Watch to learn about our vision for Zero Trust networking and segmentation, and for…
April 13, 2023

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Inside Track staff

Watch Microsoft’s CISO series on eliminating passwords

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5oVlBqnRjg, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Microsoft CISO Bret Arsenault discusses the insecurity of passwords and the frustrations they cause.…
April 12, 2023

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Lukas Velush

Boosting Windows internally at Microsoft with a transformed approach to patching

You’re only as secure as your most vulnerable machine. That leaves enterprises like ours at risk when our employees don’t update to the latest software version on a timely basis. Bad actors are tirelessly pursuing the smallest of vulnerabilities, so…
October 28, 2021

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Kristin Burke

How Microsoft narrows the threat funnel on over 600 billion monthly security events

At Microsoft, we typically see around 600 billion security events each month. Security events are innocuous actions that happen all the time, ranging from adding a user to a Microsoft SharePoint site, to creating a file, to deleting a folder,…
March 13, 2020

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Aleenah Ansari

How Microsoft is transforming the way it fights security threats

The Microsoft Digital Security and Resilience (DSR) team is committed to protecting customer and employee data every day. This is underpinned by a Zero Trust strategy, supported by new analysis methods for identity compromise, and reinforced by security training and…
February 19, 2020

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Aleenah Ansari

How Microsoft is transforming its approach to security training

In a defining moment, Microsoft employees did the right thing. Ken Sexsmith recalls waiting quietly outside a conference room for a meeting about a new approach for promoting the annual security training at Microsoft. Earlier that day, his team, which…
June 19, 2018

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Miri Rodriguez

Birds of a Falcon feather: Our diverse and inclusive team

So far in this series, we’ve learned how Falcon, the Microsoft AI spirit animal, lives up to its name by leveraging its speed, agility and impeccable visibility to help detect and protect millions of assets at the enterprise level. But…
June 6, 2018

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Miri Rodriguez

Falcon: Zeroing in on our assets

In the first episode of this three-part mini video series, Samuel Trim, senior security engineer, and Patricia Donnellan, senior security program manager in Microsoft Core Services Engineering and Operations (CSEO), introduced us to Falcon: the Microsoft AI spirit animal that…

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