Understanding Compliance Between Commercial, Government and DoD Offerings - September 2023 Update
Understanding compliance between Commercial, Government and DoD offerings: There remains much confusion as to what service supports what standards best. If you have DFARS, ITAR, FedRAMP, CJIS, IRS and other regulatory requirements and you are trying to understand what service is the best fit for your organization then you should read this article.Understanding Compliance Between Microsoft 365 Commercial, GCC, GCC-High and DoD Offerings
Understanding compliance between Commercial, GCC, GCC High and DoD offerings: There remains much confusion as to what service supports what standards best. If you have DFARS, ITAR, FedRAMP, CJIS, IRS and other regulatory requirements and you are trying to understand what service is the best fit for your organization then you should read this article.Understanding Compliance Between Commercial, Government and DoD Offerings - February 2021 Update
Understanding compliance between Commercial, Government and DoD offerings: There remains much confusion as to what service supports what standards best. If you have DFARS, ITAR, FedRAMP, CJIS, IRS and other regulatory requirements and you are trying to understand what service is the best fit for your organization then you should read this article.Microsoft expands qualification of contractors for Government cloud offerings
The primary change to the qualification requirements includes the ability for non-government service providers and contractors to prove eligibility with a U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) System for Award Management (SAM) Registration.Microsoft Copilot for Security and NIST 800-171: Access Control
The second blog in this series will dive into the very first requirement family -Access Control (3.1) - and how organizations may deploy Microsoft Copilot for Security (Security Copilot) to meet the requirements entailed.This requirement family is arguably one of the most paramount because of the remarkable growth in identity-based attacks and the need for identity architects and teams to work more closely with the Security Operations Center (SOC). Microsoft Entra data noted in the Microsoft Digital Defense Report shows the number of “attempted attacks increased more than tenfold compared to the same period in 2022, from around 3 billion per month to over 30 billion. This translates to an average of 4,000 password attacks per second targeting Microsoft cloud identities [2023]”.Microsoft Intune in GCC and GCC High Overview + CMMC Applications
Organizations can meet CMMC compliance for specific practices across several different domains using Microsoft Intune in GCC or GCC High in combination with configuration settings and policies in Azure Government and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.Microsoft Security Copilot and NIST 800-171
Microsoft Security Copilot can help commercial businesses in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) meet the security requirements of NIST 800-171r3 and prepare for CMMC 2.0.Features and benefits of Security Copilot, such as automated threat detection, real-time alerts, advanced analytics, attack path analysis, and natural language explanations can improvethe productivity and accuracy of security analysts. Explore how companies in the DIB may use these AI-powered capabilities to meet NIST 800-171r3 security requirements, detect and respond to threats more efficiently, and ultimately defend against threats with finite or limited resources.
