{"id":20677,"date":"2021-08-19T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/?p=20677"},"modified":"2021-08-19T09:18:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T16:18:04","slug":"new-and-updated-regulatory-compliance-policy-initiatives-for-nist-fedramp-dod-in-azure-azure-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/new-and-updated-regulatory-compliance-policy-initiatives-for-nist-fedramp-dod-in-azure-azure-government\/","title":{"rendered":"New and updated regulatory compliance policy initiatives for NIST, FedRAMP, DoD in Azure, Azure Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Azure Global recently released a new regulatory compliance <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/governance\/policy\/samples\/nist-sp-800-53-r5\">policy initiative<\/a> for NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5. This policy initiative includes more than 250 policies aligned to 800-53 Rev. 5 controls and helps customers establish guardrails to manage their compliance with specific <a href=\"https:\/\/csrc.nist.gov\/publications\/detail\/sp\/800-53\/rev-5\/final\">NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 controls<\/a>. The initiative is available in Azure and Azure Government.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, major updates were released for existing regulatory compliance policy initiatives for NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4, FedRAMP Moderate, FedRAMP High, DoD Impact Level 4, and DoD Impact Level 5, improving control coverage across each initiative.<\/p>\n<p>You can find these policy initiatives within Azure Policy in the Azure portal in Azure and Azure Government:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/governance\/policy\/samples\/nist-sp-800-53-r5\">NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/governance\/policy\/samples\/nist-sp-800-53-r4\">NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/governance\/policy\/samples\/fedramp-high\">FedRAMP High<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/governance\/policy\/samples\/fedramp-moderate\">FedRAMP Moderate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/governance\/policy\/samples\/gov-dod-impact-level-4\">DOD Impact Level 4<\/a> *<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/governance\/policy\/samples\/gov-dod-impact-level-5\">DOD Impact Level 5<\/a> *<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* Azure Government only release<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about our regulatory compliance initiatives, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/governance\/policy\/samples\/#regulatory-compliance\">Azure Policy built-in initiative definitions<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azure Global recently released a new regulatory compliance policy initiative for NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5. This policy initiative includes more than 250 policies aligned to 800-53 Rev. 5 controls and helps customers establish guardrails to manage their compliance with specific NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 controls. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7315,"featured_media":19739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[95,189,3432,291,292,429],"class_list":["post-20677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-azuregov","tag-azure-government","tag-compliance","tag-dod-impact-level-5","tag-fedramp","tag-fedramp-high","tag-nist"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Azure Global recently released a new regulatory compliance policy initiative for NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5. 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