{"id":18534,"date":"2019-11-14T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/?p=18534"},"modified":"2019-11-14T09:12:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T17:12:09","slug":"azure-blueprint-for-fedramp-moderate-is-now-available-for-azure-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/azure-blueprint-for-fedramp-moderate-is-now-available-for-azure-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure Blueprint for FedRAMP Moderate is now available for Azure Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">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.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Our recently released <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/fedrampm-blueprint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #005da6;\">Azure Blueprint for FedRAMP Moderate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #333333;\"> is now available in Azure Government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fedramp.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #005da6;\">Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #333333;\"> provides a catalog of FedRAMP High, Moderate, and Low baseline security controls, for federal information systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Our new FedRAMP Moderate blueprint maps a core set of Azure Policy definitions to specific FedRAMP Moderate controls. For US government organizations and others with compliance requirements based on FedRAMP Moderate, this blueprint can help you proactively manage and monitor compliance of Azure resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The FedRAMP Moderate blueprint provides governance guardrails using Azure Policy to help customers assess specific FedRAMP Moderate. The blueprint includes a core set of policies that can be assigned to any Azure architecture that must implement these controls. When assigned, Azure resources are evaluated by Azure Policy for non-compliance with assigned policies. A control mapping provides details on policies included within this blueprint and how these policies address various FedRAMP Moderate controls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Assigning the blueprint is easy \u2013 sign in to the Azure portal, search for Blueprints, create a new blueprint, and select the FedRAMP Moderate blueprint template to get started.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read the full story on\u00a0 how <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/fedramp-moderate-blueprints-helps-automate-us-federal-agency-compliance\/\">FedRAMP Moderate Blueprints helps automate US federal agency compliance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Learn more about the blueprint here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/fedrampm-blueprint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #005da6;\">https:\/\/aka.ms\/fedrampm-blueprint<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Our recently released Azure Blueprint for FedRAMP Moderate is now available in Azure Government.\u00a0 The Federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9083,"featured_media":18435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2059,95,291],"class_list":["post-18534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-azure-blueprints","tag-azure-government","tag-fedramp"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Disclaimer: Customers are wholly responsible for ensuring their own compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. 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