Azure Government

Updates for building solutions on Microsoft's Clouds for Government

With 14 new services at FedRAMP High, Azure Government continues expanding compliance coverage

June 22, 2020 Jun 22, 2020 06/22/20

Zach Kramer

Microsoft now has 116 services covered by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) for Azure Government. We continue to bring you more services at FedRAMP High than any other cloud provider, delivering on our ongoing investments in commercial parity and our commitment to ...

Join us online June 24: The future of IoT and edge computing in gov

June 17, 2020 Jun 17, 2020 06/17/20

Karina Homme

By 2025 roughly a quarter of all data generated globally will be created in real time, according to IDC. IoT and edge computing play an essential role in making sense of that data right at the source. As government agencies work to expand and become more responsive to real-time insights gathered through sensors and devices, this can enable ...

CMMC with Microsoft Azure: System & Information Integrity (10 of 10)

May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020 05/28/20

TJ Banasik

This is the last in a ten-part blog series where we’ll demonstrate principles of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification aligned with Microsoft Azure. In previous blogs in the series we’ve explored access control, audit & accountability maturity, asset & configuration management, identification & authentication, incident...

CMMC with Microsoft Azure: System & Communications Protection (9 of 10)

May 26, 2020 May 26, 2020 05/26/20

TJ Banasik

This is the ninth in a ten-part blog series where we’ll demonstrate principles of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification aligned with Microsoft Azure. The final blog in the series will delve into system & information integrity. In this ninth blog of the series we will explore how to leverage Microsoft Azure for system & ...

79 Azure Government services now authorized for DoD IL5 workloads

May 22, 2020 May 22, 2020 05/22/20

Azure Gov Team

Just over a year ago, we announced the expansion of support for Department of Defense Security Requirements Guide (DoD SRG) Impact Level 5 (IL5) to all Azure Government regions – today we have 79 services authorized for IL5 workloads in Azure Government, enabling mission owners with more services at IL5 than any other cloud provider. ...

Integrated compliance in Azure with Xacta 360

May 20, 2020 May 20, 2020 05/20/20

Azure Gov Team

This guest post contributed by Vicky Frescas and Tirtza Bernstein of Telos Corporation covers how to use Xacta® 360 with Azure and Azure Government. Learn more by attending the upcoming Accelerating ATO on Azure webinar on May 28 at 2PM EST. Telos Corporation recently announced the Xacta® 360 integration with Microsoft Azure Government to...

Meetup replay: Gov IT modernization in the era of COVID-19

May 20, 2020 May 20, 2020 05/20/20

Karina Homme

Our April Microsoft Azure Government meetup featured innovative demos and influential speakers in the federal space from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), CGI Federal, C3.ai, and Microsoft discussing strategies, challenges and tools for driving government IT modernization along the impacts COVID-19 brings to these efforts. Microsoft’s ...

CMMC with Microsoft Azure: Recovery & Risk Management (7 of 10)

May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020 05/19/20

TJ Banasik

This is the seventh in a ten-part blog series where we’ll demonstrate principles of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification aligned with Microsoft Azure. Subsequent blogs in the series will delve into security assessment & risk management, system & communications protection and system & information integrity. In this ...