Azure Government
Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government
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Building and monitoring Zero Trust (TIC 3.0) workloads for federal information systems with Microsoft Sentinel
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
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.
Join us Oct. 27, 2021: Key strategies + tech for agencies to improve the nation’s cybersecurity
We invite you to RSVP and join us Wednesday, Oct. 27, from 6 – 7 p.m. ET, to hear speakers from government and industry discuss strategies and demo technologies that will help agencies improve their cybersecurity during a virtual Azure Government user community meetup.
Defending federal information systems with Azure Sentinel threat intelligence workbook
In this blog with video, Lili Davoudian and TJ Banasik, CISSP-ISSEP, ISSAP, ISSMP, discuss and demonstrate how Azure Sentinel threat intelligence workbook can help you start building threat intelligence programs by providing the capability to ingest and correlate threat data in cloud workloads.
Accredited for Azure Government Secret: Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack Edge, Azure Data Box
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.
Join us: AI in government
Join us Sept. 29 to hear speakers from NASA’s Johnson Space Center discuss some of the innovative AI projects they’re driving; and also from Microsoft on AI strategies, best practices, and the latest technologies that will enable the executive order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence at the Azure Government meetup.
Announcing private preview of authorized DoD Cloud Infrastructure as Code for Azure
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
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
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 infrastructure sectors are responsible for systems considered so vital to the US their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on the security, economy, and public health of the nation. In these critical scenarios where seconds matter, Microsoft is un...