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Feb 6, 2018
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A year in review for Azure Government

Tom Keane, General Manager, Microsoft
Tom Keane, General Manager, Microsoft

Looking back over the past year and seeing the progress we’ve made gives us a real sense of momentum as we continue to double-down on our investments in Azure Government in 2018. As the engineering lead for Azure Government, my team looks at everything from where we build datacenters, to what hardware and networking we put in those datacenters, wh...

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Feb 5, 2018
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Securing IaaS workloads for Department of Defense

Derek Strausbaugh, Principal Program Manager
Derek Strausbaugh, Principal Program Manager

  By Jason Henderson, Cloud Solutions Architect Kyle Hoyer, Technical Solutions Professional Derek Strausbaugh, Principal Program Manager, Azure Global A rapidly increasing number of DoD customers deploying IaaS workloads to Azure have been asking for guidance setting up secure virtual networks and configuring the security tools and ser...

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Jan 30, 2018
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Register now: Cyber Agility with the Cloud webinar

Karina Homme
Karina Homme

Cloud enables an ever-accelerating pace of innovation and change. At the same time, cloud architecture challenges fundamental assumptions of on-premises cybersecurity practices; existing security and compliance frameworks simply can't keep up. The next evolution of cybersecurity is a transition away from "best practice" models of security to a focu...

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Jan 24, 2018
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Federal agencies continue to advance capabilities with Azure Government

Tom Keane, General Manager, Microsoft
Tom Keane, General Manager, Microsoft

We’re continuing to see agencies advance their capabilities using Azure Government. Two agencies have recently issued new Authority to Operate (ATO) designations for Azure Government: the U.S. Air Force with a DoD Impact Level 4 ATO for its Common Computing Environment (CCE) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with a FedRAMP High ATO...

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Jan 5, 2018
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Optimize Uptime While Staying Secure

Steve Michelotti
Steve Michelotti

With the recent announcement of the industry-wide, hardware-based CPU vulnerability, organizations must ensure they have appropriately updated their infrastructure to secure their environment. Microsoft Azure Government customer environments were patched prior to the public announcement. Additionally, Microsoft publicly announced the patching proce...

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Dec 5, 2017
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Conquering the Upfront Cost Barrier to IoT

Karina Homme
Karina Homme

According to a recent report from the International Data Center (IDC), How government organizations look at IoT, the top three roadblocks to IoT deployment are upfront costs, security, and privacy.[1]  Over 30 billion devices are estimated to be connected to the internet by 2020.[2] The Internet of Things (IoT) can offer government agencies new ...

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Nov 28, 2017
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Unlock data insights to drive agency mission

Karina Homme
Karina Homme

Now more than ever, federal CIOs can leverage business intelligence (BI) and advanced analytics to simplify data management, unlock valuable insights, and use these insights to improve operations across their agencies. Advanced analytics allows CIOs to connect available data to their agency’s larger mission. Sophisticated tools and techniques en...

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Nov 9, 2017
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Benefits of Blockchain for Government Agencies

Kevin Leffew
Kevin Leffew

Kevin Leffew is a Solution Specialist for Microsoft for US SLG with a specialization in Blockchain and the Modern Workplace.  You can find him writing about all things related to blockchain, distributed systems, and digital identity on his blog (https://medium.com/@kleffew) and on Twitter @kleffew94 In today's rapidly modernizing economy, the ...

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Nov 2, 2017
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Azure Security and Compliance Blueprint – Web Applications for FedRAMP

Matt Rathbun
Matt Rathbun

Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of a new Azure Security and Compliance Blueprint - Web Applications for FedRAMP. This solution deploys and configures Azure resources in a simple reference architecture and implements a subset of controls from the FedRAMP High baseline, based on NIST SP 800-53. Deploying the solution requir...

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Oct 24, 2017
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Utilizing the cloud for greater security everywhere

Susie Adams
Susie Adams

In my day-to-day work, I help government agencies implement initiatives to protect, detect and respond to breaches. You've likely heard statistics - on average globally, it takes 191 days to identify a data breach and that the median number of days an attacker stays dormant within a network before detection is over 200. To put that in context: on a...

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