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Compliance - Azure Government

120 Azure Government services now authorized for DoD IL5 workloads

February 11, 2021 Feb 11, 2021 02/11/21
Azure Gov Team
We continue to drive expansion of our support for Department of Defense Security Requirements Guide (DoD SRG) Impact Level 5 (IL5) across all Azure Government regions. Our latest addition of 23 new services brings a total of 120 services authorized for IL5 workloads in Azure Government – more than any other cloud provider. These services ...

Announcing compliance hub for Azure

January 29, 2021 Jan 29, 2021 01/29/21
Stevan Vidich
To help customers meet their own compliance obligations across regulated industries and markets worldwide, Microsoft Azure maintains the largest compliance portfolio in the industry both in terms of breadth (total number of offerings), as well as depth (number of customer-facing services in assessment scope). A new Azure compliance hub page ...

Resources to accelerate your CMMC journey

October 30, 2020 Oct 30, 2020 10/30/20
Azure Gov Team
We’re actively building out our program by developing resources for both partners and Defense Industrial Base (DIB) companies to leverage in their Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) journey. In a recent blog, Richard Wakeman, senior director of Aerospace & Defense for Microsoft Azure Global, shares current resources to ...

Got CMMC questions? Join an ‘Ask Microsoft Anything’ session on Aug. 25th

August 21, 2020 Aug 21, 2020 08/21/20
Azure Gov Team
In preparing for the new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) from the Department of Defense (DoD), many customers and partners have asked for more information on how to prepare for audits, and about Azure accreditation and our CMMC acceleration program. On Tuesday, Aug. 25, you can get answers to your questions around how we ...

With 14 new services at FedRAMP High, Azure Government continues expanding compliance coverage

June 22, 2020 Jun 22, 2020 06/22/20
Zach Kramer
Microsoft now has 116 services covered by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) for Azure Government. We continue to bring you more services at FedRAMP High than any other cloud provider, delivering on our ongoing investments in commercial parity and our commitment to ...

CMMC with Microsoft Azure: Access Control (1 of 10)

April 28, 2020 Apr 28, 2020 04/28/20
TJ Banasik
This is the first in a ten-part blog series where we’ll demonstrate principles of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) aligned with Microsoft Azure. Subsequent blogs in the series will delve into audit & accountability maturity, asset & configuration management, identification & authentication, incident response...

Securing mobile: Designing SaaS service implementations to meet federal policy (1 of 4)

December 19, 2019 Dec 19, 2019 12/19/19
Brian Tirch
Several federal initiatives such as CDM (Continuous Diagnostic and Mitigation) and TIC (Trusted Internet Connection) are increasingly becoming similar, in that identical tools and approaches such as Zero Trust can be used to meet multiple federal mandates. This convergence provides an opportunity to reduce complexity while helping agencies ...