The Modern Workplace presents modern threats. Cloud transition and transformation moves applications from controlled data centres to the public internet, dissolving the traditional network perimeter and firewalls that provided a “hard shell” around technology assets. Zero Trust architectures secure the Modern Workplace by shifting the boundary of trust away from the network location and device, to securing identity, applications, and data.

The Microsoft 365 ecosystem provides an extensive and highly integrated ecosystem of security tools to secure the Modern Workplace. Microsoft Azure Active Directory is the engine powering modern cloud security. Identities for employees, partners, customers, and devices are secured by multi-factor authentication, biometrics, conditional access based on posture and sign in risk, as well over 8 trillion security signals processed daily.

Additional layers of security are provided by Microsoft’s cloud access security broker (CASB), Security Incident and Event Monitoring (SIEM) through Sentinel, holistic asset protection with Microsoft Defender, plus real-time data loss prevention through Microsoft Information Protection.