Tech Mercenary Chronicles: Ditching the VPN Dinosaur – A Zero-Trust Odyssey with Entra Suite and Windows 365 

Hey fellow mercenaries, Ravi here. If you’ve been following my chronicles, you know I’ve been knee-deep in E5 deployments, turning chaotic tenants into fortified Zero Trust bastions. In Part 1, we tackled identity Armageddon; Part 2 was all about endpoint lockdown. Today, I’m dropping the deets on a real-world gig where I helped a global org (let’s call them GlobeCorp – 5,000 employees across 20 countries) go completely VPN-less. We leveraged Entra Internet Access and Entra Private Access to secure their perimeter, while empowering their distributed workforce to rock BYOD setups for Windows 365 Cloud PCs. No more clunky VPN clients, no more “connection failed” tickets – just seamless, secure productivity from anywhere.