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The need for speed: DevOps in gov

May 13, 2019 May 13, 2019 05/13/19
Karina Homme
Keeping pace with mission demands is an increasing challenge for government. Developers are on the hook to deliver new capabilities to their agencies faster than ever. To hear how DevOps and cloud can help agencies accelerate their mission speed and capabilities, RSVP and join the Microsoft Azure Government DC user community for a meetup on...

Azure Government expands FedRAMP High coverage

May 1, 2019 May 1, 2019 05/1/19
Lily Kim, General Manager, Azure Global
10 new services added to FedRAMP High ATO as part of ongoing work to make commercial innovation more accessible to government agencies Microsoft now has 67 services covered by the FedRAMP High Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) for Azure Government in the continental United States. Why is FedRAMP compliance important? The new ...

Advanced Data Security with Azure SQL Database in Azure Government

April 30, 2019 Apr 30, 2019 04/30/19
Steve Michelotti
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti, principal program manager with Azure Government, sits down to talk with Ajay Jagannathan of the Azure SQL Database Engineering team about Advanced Data Security with Azure SQL Database in Azure Government. Ajay and Steve begin with a discussion of the types of security ...

Is there an easy button for gov IT modernization?

March 19, 2019 Mar 19, 2019 03/19/19
Karina Homme
To keep up with our country’s pace of innovation and ensure mission success, government agencies are under more pressure than ever to accelerate their IT modernization projects (and for some, just get them off the ground!). As agencies incur various challenges in their progress, they might be wondering if there’s an easy button for ...

Enhance data protection and compliance with customer managed keys

March 11, 2019 Mar 11, 2019 03/11/19
Azure Gov Team
This is the third blog in a three-part series on security in Azure Government co-authored by Robert Jaffee, Sr. Program Manager, and Diego Lapiduz, Chief Information Security Architect, with Microsoft Azure Global Government. (In case you missed them, check out the first and second blogs: Six tips for securing identity in the cloud and Five ...

Five tips for securing your IaaS workloads

February 26, 2019 Feb 26, 2019 02/26/19
Azure Gov Team
This is the second blog in a three-part series on security in Azure Government co-authored by Robert Jaffee, Sr. Program Manager, and Diego Lapiduz, Chief Information Security Architect, with Microsoft Azure Global Government. (In case you missed it, check out the first blog: Six tips for securing identity in the cloud.) In this blog, we’...