Midwest Machines and Minds

The smallest changes can sometimes have the biggest impact. We’re introducing workspace-level IP firewall rules in Microsoft Fabric, giving users and administrators significantly more granular control over how and where sensitive data can be accessed. This enhancement is a critical step in building a secure, compliant foundation that enables confident data sharing at scale across the enterprise and to external users.

By allowing teams to precisely control network access at the workspace level, this capability helps organizations move from isolated data silos to a trusted, corporate-wide data marketplace—where data products can be safely shared, discovered, and reused without compromising security.

This new capability allows you to:

🛡️ Define Granular Access Control
Specify exactly which IP addresses or ranges are allowed to access each Fabric workspace, ensuring that only approved users, systems, and networks can connect to sensitive data assets.

🌐 Strengthen Security Posture
Reduce the attack surface by blocking unauthorized access from untrusted or external networks before requests ever reach your data, adding a powerful network-level safeguard alongside identity and role-based controls.

✅ Enable Compliance by Design
Support regulatory, legal, and corporate security requirements by enforcing strict inbound access policies at the workspace level—making it easier to demonstrate compliance while accelerating analytics and data sharing.

⚙️ Configure Security Per Workspace
Apply the right level of protection based on the sensitivity and purpose of each workspace. This flexibility allows governed data products to be safely exposed for broader consumption while protecting high-risk or restricted workloads.

🌍 Power a Corporate-Wide Data Marketplace
By establishing clear, enforceable network boundaries, teams can confidently publish and consume shared datasets across the organization. This trust model is essential for scaling a governed data marketplace—where data is both accessible and protected by default.

Ultimately, workspace-level IP firewall rules empower organizations to share more data, with more confidence, turning security from a barrier into an enabler of enterprise analytics and collaboration.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-fabric/resources/data-101/what-is-fabric

Author: Jim Fahrenbach

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