Announcements

Announcing the Microsoft Sentinel: NIST SP 800-53 Solution

May 17, 2022 May 17, 2022 05/17/22

Today, we’re announcing the Microsoft Sentinel: NIST SP 800-53 Solution which enables compliance teams, architects, SecOps analysts, and consultants to understand their cloud security posture related to Special Publication (SP) 800-53 guidance issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This workbook is designed ...

Jumpstart threat intelligence programs with the Microsoft Sentinel Threat Intelligence Workbook

May 9, 2022 May 9, 2022 05/9/22

Lili Davoudian, TJ Banasik

We’re releasing the next evolution of the Microsoft Sentinel Threat Intelligence Workbook. This solution provides enhanced capabilities in indicator ingestion and indicator search, empowering organizations to centralize and correlate threat data across their workloads and operationalize these insights for investigation and response. As a ...

Securing Defense Industrial Base workloads with the Microsoft Sentinel: CMMC 2.0 Solution

April 26, 2022 Apr 26, 2022 04/26/22

Lili Davoudian, TJ Banasik

Since its first release in 2020, the Microsoft Sentinel Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification workbook has remained one of the most popular content packages for Defense Industrial Base (DIB) customers in Microsoft Sentinel. Today, we’re announcing the next evolution of this content in the Microsoft Sentinel: Cybersecurity Maturity Model...

What’s new: Microsoft Sentinel Zero Trust (TIC 3.0) Solution update

April 5, 2022 Apr 5, 2022 04/5/22

Lili Davoudian

This blog is co-authored by TJ Banasik, CISSP-ISSEP, ISSAP, ISSMP, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Cloud & AI Security. With demand continuing to grow for federal agencies to build Zero Trust security principles seamlessly into their existing architectures, we’re announcing the Microsoft Sentinel Zero Trust (Trusted Internet ...

Building and monitoring Zero Trust (TIC 3.0) workloads for federal information systems with Microsoft Sentinel

December 7, 2021 Dec 7, 2021 12/7/21

Lili Davoudian

See how to build and monitor Zero Trust (TIC 3.0) workloads for Federal Information Systems with the Microsoft Sentinel solution.

Azure Red Hat OpenShift now in preview in Azure Government

October 26, 2021 Oct 26, 2021 10/26/21

Kavitha Gowda

Today we’re announcing the public preview release of Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Azure Government. With this release, we will be bringing the world class Azure infrastructure with leading enterprise Kubernetes platform as a jointly operated and supported service for Azure Government customers.

Accredited for Azure Government Secret: Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack Edge, Azure Data Box

October 13, 2021 Oct 13, 2021 10/13/21

Eric Brown

Today we’re announcing the Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 6 (IL6) accreditation for Azure Government Secret of several mission-critical device services for Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack Edge, and Azure Data Box.

Announcing private preview of authorized DoD Cloud Infrastructure as Code for Azure

August 30, 2021 Aug 30, 2021 08/30/21

Zach Kramer

To help Department of Defense (DoD) customers keep pace with mission demands, we’re announcing the private preview of DoD Cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for Azure – a set of preauthorized baselines that build standard environments in Azure Government to accelerate DoD adoption of cloud services.

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

August 19, 2021 Aug 19, 2021 08/19/21

John Molesky

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.

Announcing Azure STIG solution templates to accelerate compliance for DoD

April 8, 2021 Apr 8, 2021 04/8/21

Nirali Shah

Today we’re announcing the availability of Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) solution templates for both Windows and Linux on the Azure Marketplace (commercial) and Azure Government Marketplace.

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