A Practical Zero Trust Roadmap with the Microsoft Stack

Zero Trust is a strategy, not a product. The Microsoft stack gives you the building blocks — Entra, Intune, Defender, Purview — but sequencing matters.

Phase 1: Identity

Conditional Access, MFA everywhere and risk-based sign-in are the highest-leverage controls you can deploy this quarter.

Phase 2: Devices and data

Once identity is solid, layer in device compliance and data classification. This is where most organisations stall — make it a programme, not a project.