Zero Trust

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,…
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…
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 11, 2023

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Douglas Gantenbein

Finding and remediating rogue access points on the Microsoft corporate network

Finding rogue access points on Microsoft’s network is an important mission for our IT teams. Networked devices have come to dominate the IT world, and their prevalence has led to more complex and vulnerable gateways. As a result, employees within…
July 27, 2023

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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…
July 12, 2023

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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…
June 20, 2023

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Cody Bay

Jamming to a new tune: Transforming Microsoft’s printing infrastructure with Universal Print

[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.] Most people…
January 25, 2023

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Josh Krenz

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

We periodically update our stories, but we can’t verify that they represent the full picture of our current situation at Microsoft. We leave them on the site so you can see what our thinking and experience was at the time.…
October 27, 2022

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Josh Krenz

Why Microsoft uses a playbook to guard against ransomware

We periodically update our stories, but we can’t verify that they represent the full picture of our current situation at Microsoft. We leave them on the site so you can see what our thinking and experience was at the time.…
October 17, 2022

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Carmichael Patton

Sharing how Microsoft protects against ransomware

We periodically update our stories, but we can’t verify that they represent the full picture of our current situation at Microsoft. We leave them on the site so you can see what our thinking and experience was at the time.…
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,…
October 21, 2021

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Inside Track – retired stories

Powering hybrid work at Microsoft: A conversation with Andrew Wilson and Nathalie D’Hers

We periodically update our stories, but we can’t verify that they represent the full picture of our current situation at Microsoft. We leave them on the site so you can see what our thinking and experience was at the time.…

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