Microsoft just rolled out its most secure Microsoft 365 version yet

Date:
Thu, 26 Jan 2023 11:52:56 +0000

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With Office 365 Government Secret Cloud, Uncle Sam might be collecting your data, but at least hes keeping it under lock and key.

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Microsoft Office 365 Government Secret Cloud, a secure environment for the companys flagship collaboration tool , is now generally available.

In an announcement on the Microsoft 365 (M365) Blog, Microsoft claimed that the release, which offers especially secure variants of email clients
Exchange and Outlook alongside its office software suite, brings a level of security and compliance to its productivity tools suitable for government
use.

The clearest application of the new environment for M365 is to keep data secure. Microsoft admits that the bulk of government data is stored via on-prem servers, but believes its latest release means this work can now move exclusively to cloud storage via its software as a service . Productivity tools in government

M365 is now the only set of business productivity tools to offer an Impact Level 6 (IL6) environment, a data handling protocol designed by the
Department of Defenses Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), to protect cloud-stored data in the hands of government agencies all the way up to the SECRET level.

This allows M365 Government Secret Cloud to bring "cloud based collaboration and communication to classified environments which, according to Microsoft,
is another first. Read more

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The company can feel confident in making that claim, with M365s new capabilities bolstering the efforts of Azure Government Secret and Top
Secret, air-gapped regions of its cloud infrastructure offering tightened security and increased data visibility.

Announcing Azure Government Top Secret in August 2021, Microsoft pitched the unique Azure regions to mission leaders, claiming that it would enable them
to draw insights from data faster and offer unified cybersecurity
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