u/Masabera

Hello,

I am in charge of a remote development team that works for us overseas. Everything has been fine for the last years, but I got a new requirement from above to protect our source code. The idea that I shall implement is to find a way so no one can copy the source code and leave the company.

Right now, we have a pretty standard Azure DevOps setup where each developer has a user and they are added to the projects they work on. We use Azure DevOps' built-in GIT for version control.

I did some online research into this topic and I think what my higher-ups would like to have is something like a Virtual Machine the developers log in where they can develop and test, but there is no way to copy anything from inside the VM to their machines or use the internet inside the VM. Something like a working terminal. But I did not find a service that works like this.

I did find that one can restrict user actions quite well with Microsoft Intune. Another option would be to buy each remote developer a new company laptop with properly set up restrictions. Before we go down this route, I would like to see if there are other solutions (like development work terminals).

Do you have any suggestions?