Security

Over the last few years, “cloud” has been one of the most used words in tech, and 2016 is no exception – for good reason.

Here at Azure Government, we are committed to meeting the highest bars for security and compliance requirements, including those for ITAR and Defense Industrial Base customers.

Cyber threats are evolving at an astonishing pace, and safeguarding your cloud workloads requires constant innovation. Since Azure Security Center became generally available in July 2016, we have been hard at work on new capabilities to help customers better defend against these threats.

Microsoft was proud to become the first global cloud service provider to appear on the Department of Commerce’s list of Privacy Shield certified entities as of August 12th 2016.

We are very excited to announce the next phase of our support of blockchain on Microsoft Azure with the launch of an early version of the Bletchley v1 infrastructural substrate.

In the introduction of Project Bletchley white paper in June, we introduced some of the requirements needed for building consortium based blockchains as well as Cryptlets, a primitive for next generation blockchain applications.

Government clouds are not all the same so we’re starting a dialogue on our strategy for building the Microsoft Government Cloud, exploring several areas we believe are highly valuable differentiators.

If case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been super busy here at Azure Government, and have been posting all our exciting updates and items of interest on our Azure Government Blog!

I’m pleased to announce we’re introducing support for X.509 certificates to enhance device-level authentication.

We are pleased to announce that the latest of those tools, Azure Security Center, is generally available.

Furthering our commitment to be the most trusted cloud, today we are announcing three major Azure compliance additions to support government entities and government partners.

Introducing Microsoft Code Name “Bletchley,” an Enterprise Blockchain Architecture defining Blockchain Middleware and introducing Cryptlets.