Zero Trust

July 10, 2025

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Jason Kellington

Securing the borderless enterprise: How we’re using AI to reinvent our network security

Microsoft Digital stories The modern enterprise network is complex, to say the least. Enterprises like ours are increasingly adopting hybrid infrastructures that span on-premises data centers, multiple cloud environments, and a diverse array of remote users. In this context, traditional…
April 24, 2025

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David Hirning

Implementing a Zero Trust security model at Microsoft

At Microsoft, our shift to a Zero Trust security model—which began more than seven years ago—has helped us navigate many challenges. The increasing prevalence of cloud-based services, mobile computing, internet of things (IoT), and bring your own device (BYOD) in…
February 25, 2025

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Inside Track staff

Improving security by protecting elevated-privilege accounts at Microsoft

This story was first published in 2019. 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…
February 4, 2025

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Justin Couture

Empowering our employees with generative AI while keeping the company secure

This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in May 2024.  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…
January 30, 2025

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Jason Kellington

Boosting our Security First Initiative at Microsoft with a transformed approach to wired network security

If you asked Sean Adams, Justin Griffin, Sajith Balan, or Shyam Sunder Gogi to provide a one-word answer that describes their current focus, you’d get the same answer: “Security.” Adams, Griffin, Balan, and Gogi are all part of a team…
January 21, 2025

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Carmichael Patton

Sharing how Microsoft protects against ransomware

This story was first published in 2022. 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…
December 30, 2024

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Josh Krenz

Why Microsoft uses a playbook to guard against ransomware

This story was first published in 2022. 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…
September 6, 2024

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Inside Track staff

Verifying device health at Microsoft with Zero Trust

This story was first published in 2021. 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…
June 19, 2024

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Josh Krenz

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

This story was first published in 2023. 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…
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…

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