GCC High Environment with Microsoft Teams Audio Conferencing In order to be a government contractor, modern businesses today must comply with strict cybersecurity requirements to keep their systems safe. For a US Public Sector customer to be eligible for GCC High, the business or organization must be a designated government…
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For the inaugural episode of our new show, “The Clearly Cloud Podcast”, we had the pleasure of sitting down with Microsoft’s Director of External Communications, David Pryor. What followed was nearly forty minutes of in-depth discussion about privacy, security, and tech…
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Since 2018, the DoD has required NIST 800-171 compliance for certain DoD contracts. However, they’ve struggled with low adoption rates across the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), confusing auditing systems, and overall friction relating to compliance. In an effort to broaden compliance,…
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Simply having GCC High, GCC, or Azure Government does not meet any compliance framework all by itself. This should go without saying, but NO platform comes out-of-the-box compliant. No matter which cloud you are in, you must build upon their…
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One of the most common questions we receive is “Which cloud is right for us?”. Understanding the differences between Commercial, GCC and GCC High Microsoft 365 environments is important, and almost directly aligns to your compliance needs. Before making the…
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How to get Microsoft Validation for GCC High Beginning your move from Microsoft 365 Commercial to GCC High starts with the validation process, a fairly straight-forward three step process. Requesting Validation – Contact Microsoft to request validation as a Category…
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What is CMMC? CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) is a DoD unified cybersecurity framework intended to provide a security standard focused on reducing the exfiltration of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) from the defense industrial base. CMMC combines various cybersecurity standards…
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ITAR, DFARS, DIB, CMMI, CMMC, FCI, CUI, GCC, ATP, AOS-G. After a few months of working in any specialized area, particularly within the DoD, or IT arenas, you become desensitized to the constant flow of acronyms and initialisms. When seeking…
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The Department of Defense has just released Version 1.0 of CMMC, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. It will provide the basis for ensuring compliance under DFARS (Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement). It replaces the Version 0.7 draft, which was…
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If you work in government cloud contracting, you already know about the recent JEDI contract award. Over $10 billion in one contract and there are many more large contracts in the works. What does this mean for government contractors? What other contracts…
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Many of the biggest risks in cloud usage have to do with compliance requirements. The penalties for being lax about privacy, security, and data protection include huge fines and the loss of business privileges. Businesses working with information covered by…
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Are you wondering how to meet NIST compliance in Office 365?? As NIST CSF versions 1.1. rolls out and private and government agencies around the world race towards compliance, figuring out how to leverage all available tools to immediately get…
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