Securing complex, multitenant environments is a top priority for government organizations operating in highly regulated cloud environments. We are excited to introduce a new capability that enhances multitenant security operations for government cloud customers, enabling cross-cloud visibility and centralized security management. These capabilities are now in public preview.
Bringing Multitenant Security Operations to Government Cloud
Security teams in government cloud environments—such as GCC High and DoD—face unique challenges when managing multiple tenants across different cloud environments. Until now, they lacked a unified view of their security posture across government and commercial clouds.
Challenges customers faced included:
- US government customers require a unified view between different cloud environments. Such a view must honor high/low boundaries and compliance requirements.
- Users in federal environments can see only the tenants that are in the same AAD cloud, or add tenants in a structure of DOD <-> GCCH and GCC -> Commercial.
The new cross-cloud capabilities are designed to enable customers to gain visibility across different clouds by manually adding remote tenants into their aggregated View. This will enable users in GCCH or DOD to add tenants from GCC or Commercial.
With our latest enhancement, multitenant management in the unified SecOps platform now supports the ability to view and manage tenants from different cloud environments across Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR. This means that security operations teams working in GCC High and DoD can now view and manage their tenants in Microsoft GCC and Commercial cloud environments, across products—all from a single pane of glass.
Why This Matters
Government agencies and service providers require strict security controls, data residency compliance, and operational efficiency when managing multiple tenants. This new capability addresses these needs by offering:
- Unified Incident Management – Security teams can now more easily manage incidents across Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR, in a single workstream.
- Unified view across cloud types - Security analysts can now view and manage security incidents across all their tenants, regardless of cloud environment, enabling faster and more effective response times.
- Cross-Tenant Investigation – Analysts can investigate threats across multiple tenants and cloud environments, ensuring no blind spots in their security posture.
- Scalable Content Management – Organizations can now manage and distribute security content at scale across all their tenants, from all environments, reducing operational overhead and improving consistency.
Security and Compliance First
While enabling cross-cloud visibility, we remain committed to keeping customer data secure and compliant with data residency requirements. Security teams can confidently leverage this new capability, knowing that their sensitive data remains within their designated cloud environment while still benefiting from a consolidated security view.
Looking Ahead
This is just the beginning. As we continue to enhance multitenant security management, we remain focused on delivering capabilities that improve efficiency, security, and compliance at scale.
We encourage security teams in government environments to explore these new capabilities and experience the benefits of unified security management across all their tenants.
To learn more, visit Manage tenants in other Microsoft cloud environments - Microsoft's unified security operations platform | Microsoft Learn
FAQ:
Which clouds could be connected?
Answer: If your user is in GCCH or DOD, you can use our multi-tenant solution with tenants from GCCH, DOD, GCC or COM.
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