Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

What’s new: Azure Security Benchmark Workbook update

March 14, 2022 Mar 14, 2022 03/14/22

Lili Davoudian

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.

Microsoft Sentinel: Maturity Model for Event Log Management Solution now in public preview

January 26, 2022 Jan 26, 2022 01/26/22

Lili Davoudian

See how agencies ease the task of aligning with federal cybersecurity directives with the Microsoft Sentinel: Maturity Model for Event Log Management Solution now available in public preview in Azure and Azure Government.

Solution accelerator for knowledge mining available for Azure Government

January 26, 2022 Jan 26, 2022 01/26/22

Sreedhar Mallangi

US government agencies can jumpstart their development projects to help meet mission demands with Azure Cognitive Search using our Knowledge Mining Solution Accelerator for Azure Government. Knowledge mining is an emerging category in artificial intelligence (AI) using a combination of AI services to drive content understanding over vast ...

Protecting federal information systems and critical infrastructure with the Microsoft Sentinel: IT/OT Threat Monitoring Solution

January 13, 2022 Jan 13, 2022 01/13/22

Lili Davoudian

Also contributing to this blog are TJ Banasik, CISSP-ISSEP, ISSAP, ISSMP, Senior Program Manager, and Katie Thomas, Program Manager, of Microsoft Cloud & AI Security. Security teams traditionally have not had tooling nor the expertise to provide them with visibility to monitor Internet of Things (IoT) / Operational Technology (OT) ...

Building and monitoring Zero Trust (TIC 3.0) workloads for federal information systems with Microsoft Sentinel

December 7, 2021 Dec 7, 2021 12/7/21

Lili Davoudian

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

October 26, 2021 Oct 26, 2021 10/26/21

Kavitha Gowda

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

October 20, 2021 Oct 20, 2021 10/20/21

Karina Homme

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

October 18, 2021 Oct 18, 2021 10/18/21

TJ Banasik

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

October 13, 2021 Oct 13, 2021 10/13/21

Eric Brown

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

September 17, 2021 Sep 17, 2021 09/17/21

Karina Homme

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.

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