John Molesky

Senior Program Manager, Azure Global Government

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New and updated regulatory compliance policy initiatives for NIST, FedRAMP, DoD in Azure, Azure Government

August 19th, 2021
Azure Global recently released a new regulatory compliance policy initiative for NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5. This policy initiative includes more than 250 policies aligned to 800-53 Rev. 5 controls and helps customers establish guardrails to manage their compliance with specific NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 controls.

New Azure Blueprint for NIST SP 800-53 R4 now available on Azure Government

September 4th, 2019
Disclaimer: Customers are wholly responsible for ensuring their own compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. Information provided in this post does not constitute legal advice, and customers should consult their legal advisors for any questions regarding regulatory compliance. Our recently released Azure Blueprint for NIST SP ...

Red Hat releases partner Azure Blueprint for OpenShift on Azure Government

June 5th, 2017
As government agencies increasingly look to adopt of DevOps, cloud computing, and Linux containers, building the underlying infrastructure on a trusted and secure foundation is critical. Today Red Hat, in collaboration with Microsoft, released a partner Azure Blueprint for deploying Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Microsoft Azure ...

Azure Blueprint helps DoD Mission Owners accelerate compliance with L5 security controls

January 23rd, 2017
Azure Government Engineering is pleased to announce the release of Azure Blueprint for the DoD Information Impact Level 5 baseline. Azure Blueprint provides DoD customers with a simplified method to understand the scope of their security responsibilities when architecting solutions in Azure, streamlining the path to attain a mission-level ...

Docker announces federal security and compliance controls for Docker Datacenter built on Azure Blueprint

December 15th, 2016
Security and compliance are top of mind for government IT organizations.  It is important for these enterprises to have the ability to deploy applications on a commercial cloud platform that adheres to strong baseline security controls. U.S. Federal agencies and many non-government organizations are dependent on various standards and ...

Azure Blueprint is now available for the FedRAMP High Baseline

December 13th, 2016
Azure Government Engineering is pleased to announce the release of Azure Blueprint for the FedRAMP High Baseline. As previously announced, the Azure Blueprint program is designed to facilitate the secure and compliant use of Azure Government, providing a simplified way to understand the scope of customer security responsibilities when ...