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How does Microsoft help me meet federal cyber requirements?

Zero Trust

The Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity puts Zero Trust at the center of the nation’s cybersecurity strategy, requiring federal agencies to implement advanced security measures to significantly reduce the risk of successful cyberattacks on the government’s digital infrastructure.

The federal Zero Trust strategy outlined in Memorandum 22-09 aligns with the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model's five pillars: identity, devices, networks, applications and workloads, and data, and emphasizes the importance of visibility and analytics, automation and orchestration, and governance to minimize uncertainty and keep access as granular as possible.

For the DOD and IC communities, the National Security Memorandum-08 and DOD Zero Trust Strategy further emphasizes the importance of Zero Trust architecture in securing the DOD's digital infrastructure against evolving cyber threats.

Microsoft resources

Here is how Microsoft can help you meet federal Zero Trust requirements.

Secure Cloud Adoption

For the federal government, the move to the cloud itself is a step to improve agency security postures. Underscored by the Section 3 of the Cyber EO, the ZT Memorandum 22-09, and the National cybersecurity Strategy, an increasing number of federal best practices and requirements have emerged to keep federal cloud solutions secure as agencies accelerate their adoption of cloud services.

Similarly, FedRAMP and NIST SP 800-53 set mandatory standards to validate cloud security. Microsoft's government cloud services meet the demanding requirements of FedRAMP, enabling federal agencies to benefit from the cost savings and rigorous security of the Microsoft Cloud.

Microsoft’s investment in DoD IL6 PA for Defense and Intel communities also aligns with the department’s OCONUS cloud strategy including building Azure/Office 365 Secret, and Azure Top Secret classified clouds to provide U.S. Government customers with secure cloud capabilities at all classification and Impact Levels.

As an awardee of the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract, secure cloud technology is directly available to all of the DoD in one vehicle, enabling warfighters and those that support them to leverage the most advanced cloud capabilities to meet their mission objectives.

Microsoft resources

Here is how Microsoft can help you meet federal secure cloud requirements—from cloud adoption and migration to multi-cloud security.

Identity Modernization

With the expansion of a mobile federal workforce, agencies must redefine their security perimeter to access data anytime, anywhere. Government applications and data moving from on-premises to hybrid and cloud environments increases organizational endpoints and the risk of compromised credentials, devices, and applications.

As protection against these threats, Memorandum 22-09 requires that agencies consolidate their identity platforms to agency-managed identity systems. Similarly, the NIST SP 800-63 Digital Identity Guidelines provide technical requirements for federal agencies implementing digital identity services, including identity proofing and authentication of users interacting with government IT systems over open networks.

With the Microsoft Entra portfolio, enterprise-wide identity management system Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) provides multifactor authentication and authorization to meet identity-related requirements.

Microsoft resources

Here is how Microsoft can help you meet federal identity modernization requirements.

Security Operations & Modern Log Management

Security operations centers (SOCs) face rapidly evolving, constantly expanding data streams from across the organization that slow response times and delay threat hunting. To improve security operations, and accelerate the ability to detect, investigate, and remediate cyber threats, Memorandum 21-31 requires federal government agencies to rapidly move toward standardized and comprehensive log event management.

Microsoft provides federal agencies with a suite of security capabilities, including enhanced visibility in asset inventory, rapid threat triage and investigation, enhanced network visibility, cloud-native SIEM/SOAR, user and entity behavior analytics, and cyber threat intelligence capabilities. These solutions, and more, leverage Microsoft's ecosystem of signals collection capabilities to support federal security operations and to operationalize data more effectively.

Microsoft resources

Here is how Microsoft can help you meet federal security operations and modern log management requirements.

Secure Software Development

Rooted in trusted source code and secure software development, software supply chain security is essential to protecting agencies and their data. NIST’s definition of “critical software"and security measures for critical software build upon the Cyber EO’s call on agencies to prioritize risk management efforts, including implementing security measures for agency management of critical software. These security measures also align with the NIST Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) and other recent CISA guidance that highlight the importance of using supported software and deploying patches.

Addressing software security is not new to Microsoft, having long invested in developing best practices for secure software developmentsource code testing, open source software distribution, and vulnerability disclosure and management programs. Microsoft knows that secure software development and DevSecOps automation are critical components of an agency’s security posture. Ensuring that security is baked in from the start, Microsoft’s SDL exceeds the requirements of SSDF and is monitored continuously.

Microsoft resources

Here is how Microsoft can help you meet federal secure software development requirements.

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National Cybersecurity Strategy

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The administration’s continued focus on cybersecurity sets out to modernize the government’s IT infrastructure and enable the nation to more proactively address cyber threats. It also represents an opportunity for government and industry to come together in fortifying federal cybersecurity postures.

Missions enabled by modern security

Delivering the confidence to innovate across a single sensor or an entire agency.
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Providing DISA with an integrated platform to manage endpoint security, detect and respond to threats, and automate security operations for their workforce.
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Your federal cybersecurity partners

Together with our extensive network of federal partners, Microsoft provides the U.S. Federal Government with the most comprehensive security program in the world; with focused, unified customer engagement experience; and with a continually expanding cloud-based IT technology and solutions offerings that match the pace of Federal customer needs.

For services partners, learn more about our cyber workshops:

Federal services partners

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    Planet Technologies

    Planet’s Enterprise Cloud Readiness program uniquely blends needs assessment, workforce education, and tool selection combined with focusing on operationalizing cybersecurity.

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    Maureen Data Systems (MDS)

    MDS digitally transforms classified or unclassified environments leveraging cloud infrastructure, security, compliance, governance, data analytics, and managed services.

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    Insight

    Insight helps federal services organizations navigate security and compliance complexity associated with dispersed workforces, platforms, edge, and IoT to mitigate risk and improve security posture.

Partner integrations

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    Yubico

    Yubico and Microsoft recently released certificate based authentication (CBA) for Microsoft Azure Active Directory on Windows, iOS, and Android devices through a hardware security key known as Yubikey to fight against phishing attacks.

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    Conquest Cyber

    Conquest Cyber launched the ARMED™ Platform built on Microsoft Sentinel to help agencies configure and manage solutions to address cyber risk with real-time visibility of their posture, guided by compliance, maturity, and effectiveness.

Skilling for the federal cyber community

More than one out of every 20 open jobs in America today is a job that requires cybersecurity skills.

Microsoft is expanding partnerships with community colleges and non-profits for cybersecurity training to help the workforce keep pace with in-demand skills. We are also dedicated to providing agencies actionable insights and tools to accelerate modernization and help cyber professionals stay ahead of sophisticated adversaries.

Additional Resources

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    Cybersecurity EO for Modern Government

    Microsoft Federal’s interactive guide on the Cyber EO helps agencies better understand near- and long-term milestones; build a strategic response aligned to security modernization priorities and EO requirements; and determine how technology partners can help accelerate the journey.

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    Microsoft’s public policy for national cybersecurit

    The Cybersecurity EO accelerates IT modernization, security, and incident response. Microsoft is committed to supporting this initiative and fostering cybersecurity improvements that impact our nation.

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    Securing the work of those who serve

    Expanding security threats puts agencies and their most critical data at risk. With Microsoft Entra, deliver on policy objectives without the fear and impediment of compromised identities.

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    Secure from the start

    Grow with confidence knowing that security is built into everything we develop and deliver.

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    Embrace proactive security with Zero Trust

    The Cybersecurity EO accelerates IT modernization, security, and incident response. Microsoft is committed to supporting this initiative and fostering cybersecurity improvements that impact our nation.

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