Microsoft plans to add the Auto-Investigation with Threat Playbooks feature to two of its Office productivity suite bundles: Office 365 Enterprise E5 and, potentially, Office 365 Government GCC.

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Leidos has achieved a gold competency certification from Microsoft that authorizes the former to deploy the latter’s portfolio of cloud offerings. The Cloud Platform certification allows the use of Microsoft’s products to support customers’ efforts to modernize cloud infrastructure, integrate data analytics technology and transition applications and data to the cloud, Leidos said Tuesday. Before […] More

Microsoft has designated Fairfax, Va.-based technology and engineering company ECS as a direct partner under a program that offers multiple cloud services to the public and private sectors. ECS said Monday it offers Azure, Office 365, Enterprise Mobility Suite, Dynamics 365 and Visual Studio offerings across global markets, regions and a cloud platform designed for U.S. government customers. The company […] More

Microsoft has unveiled a new initiative to provide political candidates and federal, local and state campaign agencies using the Office 365 platform with free cybersecurity tools as part of the expansion of the Defending Democracy Program. Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer of Microsoft, said in a blog entry posted Monday the AccountGuard program offers threat […] More

Microsoft is scheduled to roll out on July 17 a chat-based workspace designed to help government cloud users communicate, collaborate, manage tools and access files. Chantal De Menezes, a senior product marketing manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog entry posted June 28 that US Government Cloud Community customers will have access to the Microsoft Teams hub by the end of August. The […] More

Microsoft has signed a six-year agreement with the U.S. intelligence community to expand the use of the company’s technology offerings by 17 agencies within the IC. The transformative agreement extends an enterprise licensing deal awarded to Dell and covers the provision of Microsoft’s Azure Government cloud, Office 365 for US Government and Windows 10 offerings […] More

L3 Technologies and Microsoft have signed a five-year strategic collaboration agreement that lets L3 use the Azure Government cloud platform to optimize its information technology processes worldwide. L3 said Tuesday it will implement the technology in an effort to address the defense company’s computing, storage power, compliance and security requirements. Microsoft designed its cloud system for U.S. government customers […] More

Microsoft has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer its line of intelligent business applications to U.S. government customers. James Townsend, founder and CEO of Microsoft partner company Infostrat, wrote in article published Monday that the Department of Housing and Urban Development granted a FedRAMP authority to operate at the “moderate impact level” to […] More

CSRA has begun to offer Microsoft‘s suite of Azure cloud computing products and services via the General Services Administration‘s IT Schedule 70 contract vehicle. Azure is now listed under the 132-40 special item number for cloud service offerings under the government-wide acquisition contract, CSRA said Tuesday. George Batsakis, CSRA executive vice president for growth, said the company is […] More

StoneFly has combined its disaster recovery and backup tool with cloud platforms from Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. The integration with AWS’ Amazon Glacier and Simple Storage Service as well as Microsoft’s Azure Government and public cloud platforms seeks to equip StoneFly’s DR365 disaster recovery system with repositories designed to secure data, StoneFly said Wednesday. DR365 has […] More

Microsoft and DXC Technology have teamed up to provide a new service offering designed to help clients manage workloads across the Microsoft Azure public cloud platform and DXC’s data centers. The DXC Services for Azure offering will work to help users facilitate hybrid and public cloud adoption as well as access Azure services in DXC’s […] More

CSRA will transfer its workload to Microsoft’s Azure Government cloud platform under a three-year enterprise agreement between the two companies. The deal also allows CSRA to use Microsoft’s Office 365 software platform for the cloud environment, CSRA said Monday. John Dancy, chief information officer of CSRA, said the company aims to operate 70 percent of its applications […] More