Azure Government

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

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

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.

US Cybersecurity Executive Order: Zero Trust architecture for critical infrastructure

Michele Myauo August 18, 2021 Aug 18, 2021 08/18/21

The US Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity requires US Federal Government organizations modernize cybersecurity and adopt a Zero Trust architecture. This is especially urgent for the 16 critical infrastructure sectors identified by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Organizations in the critical...

STIG solution templates now available in Azure Government Secret for Windows, Linux, and more

Nirali Shah July 15, 2021 Jul 15, 2021 07/15/21

Today we’re announcing that our Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) solution templates are now also available in Azure Government Secret, enabling customers to build, host, and transform their applications faster across Impact Level 6 on secure and compliant infrastructure.

Azure Form Recognizer now processes IDs in Azure Government

Lu Zhang July 8, 2021 Jul 8, 2021 07/8/21

Form Recognizer can analyze and extract information from government-issued identification documents (IDs) using its prebuilt IDs model to help reduce the time, complexities and errors that come with manually extracting data from various ID types and formats.

Accelerating authorization: DoD mission owners can now coordinate with Microsoft on eMASS

Ibrahim Waziri Jr., Ph.D. June 17, 2021 Jun 17, 2021 06/17/21

The Department of Defense (DoD) has approved Microsoft access to the Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service (eMASS). This allows DoD mission owners to coordinate with Microsoft on access to the Azure security authorization packages, including control inheritance and control implementation details.

Video | Better together for US government: Azure Security Center + Azure Sentinel

Lili Davoudian June 7, 2021 Jun 7, 2021 06/7/21

In this video, Lili Davoudian and TJ Banasik, CISSP-ISSEP, ISSAP, ISSMP, discuss and demonstrate how when coupled, Azure Security Center and Azure Sentinel create an integrated end-to-end detection, investigation, and response platform for protecting cloud workloads.

Join us: What’s next? Emerging tech impacting US government

Karina Homme May 20, 2021 May 20, 2021 05/20/21

We invite you to RSVP and join the Azure Government User Community Wednesday, May 26 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. EST for a meetup on “What’s next? Emerging tech impacting US government” via Teams Live.

SQL Server 2019 on RHEL8 container now available on Iron Bank-DoD’s Centralized Artifacts Repository

Nirali Shah May 14, 2021 May 14, 2021 05/14/21

SQL Server container images can now be used in highly-controlled environments, such as federal government, DoD, and Defense Industrial Base organizations, where the prerequisite to leverage any container image is that it must be hardened and accredited. To get started, you can download the container image from Iron Bank. 

Meeting CMMC Level 3 on Azure

Adam Dimopoulos May 6, 2021 May 6, 2021 05/6/21

The Azure team just released a new CMMC Level 3 initiative for Azure Policy and a corresponding blueprint sample. These preview releases are available in Azure and Azure Government. In this blog post we break down the releases and how customers can use these tools to accelerate CMMC compliance in Azure.

Zero Trust architecture in Azure for government

TJ Banasik May 5, 2021 May 5, 2021 05/5/21

The Azure Sentinel: Zero Trust (TIC 3.0) Workbook provides an overlay of Microsoft offerings to Zero Trust models, measurable over time via visualizations. Implementers, SecOps analysts, assessors, security and compliance decision makers, and MSSPs can leverage this capability to build, design, and monitor cloud security architectures.