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February 25, 2025

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Improving security by protecting elevated-privilege accounts at Microsoft

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February 13, 2025

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Streamlining group membership management and governance at Microsoft

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January 31, 2025

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Lukas Velush

Running on VPN: How Microsoft is keeping its remote workforce connected

[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.] To ensure…

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

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…

January 10, 2025

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Josh Krenz

Boosting Microsoft’s response to cybersecurity attacks with Microsoft Sentinel

[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.] Sometimes you…

January 9, 2025

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Inside Track staff

Moving to next-generation SIEM at Microsoft with Microsoft Sentinel

[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.] Our internal…

January 6, 2025

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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…

December 30, 2024

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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,…

December 5, 2024

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Gabe Storment

Transforming our data culture with AI-ready data

IT organizations—at Microsoft and companies around the world—will never be the same thanks to AI. For all the benefits that AI and machine learning offer, one element we and companies like ours need to get right is data. After all,…

November 1, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Getting the most out of generative AI at Microsoft with good governance

Since generative AI exploded onto the scene, it’s been unleashing our employees’ creativity, unlocking their productivity, and up-leveling their skills. But we can fly into risky territory if we’re not careful. The key to protecting the company and our employees…

October 18, 2024

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Inside Track staff

Modernizing Microsoft’s internal Help Desk experience with ServiceNow

Microsoft is transforming the experience of our internal IT helpdesk agents and, using ServiceNow IT Service Management, we’re improving the experience our employees have when they request IT help. We’ve transitioned the traditional and custom IT tools and features in…