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Microsoft Partners with Federal Tax Administrators at Annual Conference
Microsoft hosts Commissioners, Top Deputies, and Legal Staff at Redmond Campus The Federal Tax Administration (FTA) Annual Conference was host to over 250 Policy leaders such as economists, top deputies, commissioners, budget directors and legal staff assembling to discuss state and federal tax policy. A foundation for regulatory policy is the requirement for a secure environment to protect citizen's personal information. Augmenting the critical policy discussion at the FTA Annual Conference, Microsoft hosted over 30 of the attendees at Microsoft's Cyber Security Operations Center. Below is the attendees gett...
Getting Beyond Lift-and-Shift on Azure Government Video – Part 2
Management wants you to move to the cloud. But if you simply lift-and-shift, you are missing out on tremendous opportunities to increase scalability and optimize resources, while also decreasing time and costs. In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti and Zach Kramer talk about the benefits of moving to PaaS. The discussion is a follow-up to the Getting Beyond Lift and Shift presentation from the Washington, DC Tech Summit. Steve and Zach discuss many aspects of PaaS, including compliance benefits and the implications of the recent Presidential Executive Order on Cybersecurity. Th...
Join us June 28! Azure Gov DC Meetup: IoT Strategies for Government
The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) enables exciting capabilities to enhance agencies' missions but also brings many challenges including security and strategies for integrating this evolving technology. Please RSVP to join us for an evening of demos, use cases and best practices on how agencies can quickly and securely deploy IoT in the cloud at the next Microsoft Azure Government DC Meetup, Iot Strategies for Government, on Wed., June 28, from 6 - 8:30 p.m., at 1776 in Washington, DC. We are excited to feature speakers from Docker Public Sector - Chris Cyrus, vice president, and Andrew Weiss, ...
Evaluating Risk with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework Risk Assessment Checklist
Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of our Risk Assessment Checklist for the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) for Federal Agencies. The Checklist is available on the Service Trust Portal under "Compliance Guides". Microsoft worked with our Azure Blueprint Partner, First Information Technology Services (FITS), to develop a streamlined guide for evaluating Federal information systems against the requirements of the CSF. The CSF checklist was initially developed by FITS for the financial industry, in response to SEC guidelines, and is used today by financial investors to determine the cybersecurit...
Microsoft Expands Data Offerings for Government with General Availability of Azure IoT Hub on Azure Government
We're excited to announce today that Microsoft has made IoT Hub available in Azure Government, the most secure and compliant cloud platform for U.S. government to run mission workloads. Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionizing industries such as utilities and retail, and now U.S. government customers and their partners will be able to more quickly and easily deliver IoT solutions that dramatically change the ways they can achieve their missions. With IoT Hub now generally available on Azure Government, U.S. government customers will be able to establish secure bi-directional communications between IoT devi...
Azure Government HackFest + Training Recap
Our first Azure Government HackFest + Training event is in the books and it was a great event! We were thrilled to see so many enthusiastic developers and IT Pros in Azure Government interested in learning new things and getting even more hands-on with Azure Government. The first day of the event was marked by several in-depth presentations by members of the Azure Government Engineering team. Speakers included: The second day of the event was dedicated to our hands-on HackFest. Participants were divided into eight teams and given a series of challenges they could c...
Microsoft’s Commitment to Strengthening Cybersecurity
Microsoft is first and foremost a cybersecurity company. Governments, restricted industries, and millions of individuals depend on the security of our products every day. And with our cloud services, we have taken our commitment to security and compliance to the next level. For insight into how Microsoft handles security company-wide and how we are working to shape the future of cloud security, please check out our story: Securing the Cloud. Microsoft is further committed to assisting our Federal customers, who must comply with the Presidential Executive Order on Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Netw...
Microsoft Signs CJIS Security Addendum with New Jersey
Microsoft has now contractually committed to CJIS requirements in 29 states. Meeting the applicable regulatory controls of the CJIS Security Policy is a long-term commitment for Microsoft. We don't consider it a checkbox, it is a commitment. As part of this commitment, Microsoft recently signed the CJIS Security Addendum with New Jersey. This brings the total states adjudicating Microsoft employees to 29. State residency and national fingerprint-based record checks are required for all personnel who have direct access to Government Cloud services with Criminal Justice Information (CJI) as defined in 5.12.1 of t...
Azure Gov May Meetup Replay: Managing the Changing Hybrid Cloud Environment in Gov
For those who could not join us at the May Azure Gov DC Meetup, we are pleased to bring you the replay of "Managing the Changing Hybrid Cloud Environment in Gov." The first segment kicks off with Azure Government updates then features Brian Harrison, cloud solution architect, Microsoft, who presents Microsoft Azure's suite of services, Operational Management Suite (OMS), which helps you manage and maintain your IaaS. The discussion covers Backup; Site Recovery; Automation; and Monitoring/Log Analytics. Brian also provides a demo on Insights and Analytics. In the second segment, Harin Sandhoo, Cloud Architec...