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New services in Azure Government to enhance your security posture

Azure Gov Team March 9, 2020 Mar 9, 2020 03/9/20

Azure Government continues to invest in delivering new cloud capabilities to government customers at a rapid pace. Over the next few weeks, we’ll highlight a wide range of new services along with how-to resources to help you accelerate modernization initiatives. On the security side, we’ve recently added several new services to give you...

Monitoring Cloud Security for Zero Trust with Azure Sentinel (3 of 6)

TJ Banasik February 4, 2020 Feb 4, 2020 02/4/20

This is the third in a six-part blog series where we will demonstrate the application of Zero Trust concepts for securing federal information systems with Microsoft Azure. In this third blog of the series we will explore how to leverage Azure Sentinel for security monitoring in Zero Trust models. Additional blogs in the series will include ...

Five tips for securing your IaaS workloads

Azure Gov Team February 26, 2019 Feb 26, 2019 02/26/19

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’...

US Army Corps of Engineers get real-time dredging insights from moving to Azure

Azure Gov Team December 10, 2018 Dec 10, 2018 12/10/18

With a mission to strengthen our nation’s security by building and maintaining infrastructure, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is a federal agency under the Department of Defense with approximately 38,000 civilians and soldiers delivering engineering services in more than 130 countries worldwide. One of the key ...

Get mission ready with deep technical training

Azure Gov Team November 14, 2018 Nov 14, 2018 11/14/18

Join us for deep technical training - free in Washington. D.C.! We’re excited to announce Microsoft Ignite | The Tour | Government a free technical training event for developers, tech professionals, and mission leaders, is coming to Washington, D.C. on February 4 – 5, 2019. Our top engineers are hitting the road to bring you two ...

Meetup replay: Future of Gov Security – Automated ATOs, Revamped TIC & Beyond

Karina Homme September 24, 2018 Sep 24, 2018 09/24/18

I recently had the opportunity to host a dynamic discussion among leading IT security and compliance experts at our latest Microsoft Azure Government DC Meetup, Future of Gov Security – Automated ATOs, Revamped TIC and Beyond, at 1776 in Crystal City, Virginia. With government accelerating its IT modernization efforts, the focus on ...

How to configure TLS versions in App Service and Functions apps in Azure Government

Sachin Dubey August 27, 2018 Aug 27, 2018 08/27/18

TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocols provide privacy and data integrity for establishing secured connections between applications. Over the period of time TLS has evolved and new versions have continued to fix vulnerabilities in older versions and also add newer capabilities. As Azure Government customers continue to optimize security of ...

RSVP and join us for our Aug. 29 Meetup: Future of Gov Security – Automated ATOs, Revamped TIC & Beyond

Karina Homme August 24, 2018 Aug 24, 2018 08/24/18

The President’s Management Agenda (PMA) is calling on agencies to accelerate their IT modernization efforts with a continued focus on security. At this month’s meetup, we will discuss how agencies can navigate ATOs and TIC compliance, so they can realize the benefits of the cloud and achieve greater agility while strengthening their ...

Application Security Groups now generally available in Azure Government

Mike Ketchum April 25, 2018 Apr 25, 2018 04/25/18

We are pleased to announce general availability of Application Security Groups (ASG) in all Azure regions including Azure Government. This feature provides security micro-segmentation for your virtual networks in Azure. The detailed announcement can be viewed here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/applicationsecuritygroups/ ASGs ...

Azure Advisor in Preview in Azure Government

Gerardo Saca April 9, 2018 Apr 9, 2018 04/9/18

Azure Advisor is now in preview in Azure Government. Advisor is a free offering that helps you to follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry to recommend solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness, performance, and high availability of your Azure ...

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