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Security and compliance are top of mind for government IT organizations.  It is important for these enterprises to have the ability to deploy applications on a commercial cloud platform that adheres to strong baseline security controls. U.S. Federal agencies and many non-government organizations are dependent on various standards and security asse...

Azure Government Engineering is pleased to announce the release of Azure Blueprint for the FedRAMP High Baseline. As previously announced, the Azure Blueprint program is designed to facilitate the secure and compliant use of Azure Government, providing a simplified way to understand the scope of customer security responsibilities when architecting ...

Azure Government Engineering is pleased to announce the initial release of the Azure Blueprint program! The program is designed to facilitate the secure and compliant use of Azure for government agencies and third-party providers building on behalf of government. Azure Government has been granted a JAB Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO) bas...

Microsoft Azure announced in June of 2016 that the Microsoft Azure Government (MAG) region can now support the processing and storing of ITAR-regulated workloads and controlled applications. Since the announcement, we have added over 8 services to the ITAR product catalog. ITAR, or International Traffic in Arms Regulations, controls the export and ...

In December 2012 Microsoft was the first hyperscale cloud provider to contractually attest to the applicable CJIS controls with a signed CJIS management agreement and CJIS Security Addendum. It was three years before any cloud provider. Since 2012, we have worked one-by-one to sign agreements with 23 other states and our goal of reaching all 50 rem...

I was honored to have the opportunity to present on the subject of the Liability of the Data Breach (and how to prevent it) at the Oregon CJIS User Conference in Bend last week.  In the conference opening keynote, Major Tom M. Worthy, Oregon State Police, announced “The Oregon State Police (OSP) is pleased to announce to the Oregon CJIS community t...

When it comes to the CJIS Security Policy, Microsoft is committed to providing law enforcement agencies with trusted cloud services that are uniquely equipped and will help meet or exceed their CJIS compliance requirements. The CJIS Security Policy provides a secure framework of laws, standards, and elements of published and vetted policies for ac...

The Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS) Implementation Guidelines is designed to provide insight into the CJIS security controls applicable to Microsoft Cloud services, and provide guidance to law enforcement agencies on where to access detailed information to assist in CJIS audits. This document provides guidelines and resource...

Microsoft recently announced FedRAMP High and Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 4 accreditation. This has raised the security and compliance bar across the Azure Government environment. As part of our commitment to addressing the US government’s cloud needs we strive to provide every customer with an experience that meets the highest bar acr...

Today we announced three major Azure compliance additions to support government entities and government partners. Check out the announcement by...