Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

What’s new: Microsoft Sentinel Zero Trust (TIC 3.0) Solution update

This blog is co-authored by TJ Banasik, CISSP-ISSEP, ISSAP, ISSMP, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Cloud & AI Security. With demand continuing to grow for federal agencies to build Zero Trust security principles seamlessly into their existing architectures, we’re announcing the Microsoft Sentinel Zero Trust (Trusted Internet ...

New Azure Security Benchmark Foundation helps organizations embrace zero trust

Disclaimer: Customers are wholly responsible for ensuring their own compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. Information provided in this post does not constitute legal advice, and customers should consult their legal advisors for any questions regarding regulatory compliance. To help organizations stay secure in a zero trust ...

Enhancing Zero Trust in Azure and Azure Government with Zscaler

This guest post was contributed by Zscaler’s Jose Padin, Director of Pre-sales Engineering for US Public Sector; and Anup Barde, Sales Engineer; and Microsoft’s Adam Dimopoulos, Senior Program Manager for Government Cybersecurity, Azure Global Critical Infrastructure As government users are working remotely now more than ever, the apps ...

Strategies to stand up a modern gov software factory + cloud PMO

Today’s government organizations face ever-increasing and evolving mission demands, requiring greater speed and agility to modernize IT. Some agencies have discovered a path to success by establishing software factories and cloud PMOs to accelerate development and delivery of better mission apps. To learn more about this new approach, we ...

Supply Chain Risk Management for Zero Trust with Microsoft Azure (6 of 6)

This is the last blog of a six-part series where we’ve demonstrated the application of Zero Trust concepts for securing federal information systems with Microsoft Azure. In this sixth blog of the series we will explore how to leverage Microsoft Azure for supply chain risk management in Zero Trust models. This blog series is coauthored by...

Insider Threat Monitoring for Zero Trust with Microsoft Azure (5 of 6)

This is the fifth 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 fifth blog of the series we will explore how to leverage Microsoft Azure for insider threats in Zero Trust models. The last blog in the series will include ...

Enforcing Policy for Zero Trust with Azure Policy (4 of 6)

This is the fourth 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 fourth blog of the series we will explore how to leverage Azure Policy for enforcing access control in Zero Trust models. Additional blogs in the series will ...

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

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 ...

Protecting Cloud Workloads for Zero Trust with Azure Security Center (2 of 6)

This is the second 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 blog we will explore how to leverage Azure Security Center for hybrid security management and threat protection in Zero Trust Architectures. Additional blogs in the...