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Azure Government Secret expands DoD IL6 services, receives highest level information categorization
In our previous blog post, we shared that Azure Government Secret achieved Provisional Authorization (PA) at Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 6 (IL6) in addition to Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 503 Authorization to Operate (ATO) with facilities accredited at ICD 705. Today, we’re announcing that Azure Government Secret DoD IL6 PA was expanded to include more than 60 cloud services in authorization scope and highest level information categorization as High Confidentiality, High Integrity, and Customer-determined Availability (H-H-x). Azure Government Secret is the first and only classified cloud ...
Defending Federal Systems with the Microsoft Sentinel Threat Analysis & Response Solution
This blog is jointly authored by Lili Davoudian, Senior Product Manager, Cloud & AI Security; Ashwin Patil, Senior Security Researcher, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center; and Ron Marsiano, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Sentinel. With the growing need for federal agencies to evaluate coverage of respective threat detection capabilities along with the need for adaptive solutions to evaluate and recommend analytics coverage within the MITRE ATT&CK® framework – Microsoft now offers a singular place to manage your security coverage with the MITRE ATT&CK® blade. Threat hunting programs also req...
Announcing the Microsoft Sentinel: NIST SP 800-53 Solution
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 to augment staffing through automation, visibility, assessment, monitoring, and remediation. Content features includes an intuitive user interface, policy-based assessments, control cards for guiding alignment with control requirements, alerting rules to monitor configuration d...
Jumpstart threat intelligence programs with the Microsoft Sentinel Threat Intelligence Workbook
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 result, this workbook serves as a starting point for building threat intelligence programs. For example, Indicator Search provides a free-text search of indicators (IP address, file, hash, email address, username) to determine: Learn more by watching the d...
Securing Defense Industrial Base workloads with the Microsoft Sentinel: CMMC 2.0 Solution
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 Certification (CMMC) 2.0 Solution. This empowers governance and compliance teams to design, build, monitor, and respond to CMMC 2.0 requirements across Microsoft, third party, hybrid, on-premises, and multi-cloud workloads. This content features a redesigned user interface...
What’s new: Microsoft Sentinel Zero Trust (TIC 3.0) Solution update
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 Connections 3.0) Solution, a powerful tool to help agencies assess, monitor, and enhance security posture relative to zero trust practices. The next-evolution of the Microsoft Sentinel: Zero Trust (TIC 3.0) Workbook is the result of considerable positive feedback and valuable s...
Join us: Art of the possible: AI in government – March 30, 2022
We invite you this month to RSVP and join the Azure Government user community as we explore the “Art of the possible: AI in government” Wednesday, March 30 from 6 – 7 p.m. ET during a virtual meetup where we’ll discuss strategies, best practices and the latest tech driving exciting AI for good projects in government.
Azure export controls white paper updates
The Azure export controls white paper offers a brief overview of US, UK, EU, and Japan export control laws and regulations as they may apply to customers using Microsoft Azure cloud services. Also provided is some general guidance concerning the considerations that Azure and Azure Government customers should bear in mind when assessing their
What’s new: Azure Security Benchmark Workbook update
Today we’re announcing the next iteration of the Azure Security Benchmark (ASB) Workbook, which provides a single pane of glass for gathering and managing data to address ASB control requirements.