Securing the Microsoft Fabric platform

Security starts at the front door. No one would consider their home secure if they were sitting in their bedroom with the door locked but their front or back door was just wide open for anyone to walk in and take a look around. Cloud data solutions are no different. No DBA would consider their database secure if anyone could connect, even though they may be locked out of the individual tables storing the data. And no systems administrator would be satisfied with a solution that allowed anyone to see a list of their workspaces even though the workspace itself could not be accessed.

Ensuring that the first layer of security is in place, the layer that prevents anyone from accessing your organization’s confidential information, including metadata such as the names of workspaces, users, capacities, and more, is vital to getting new data platforms approved for use. Because Fabric is delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS), it looks a little...