Announcing Office 365 for Government: A US Government Community Cloud

Today, I'm pleased to announce some great news for government customers in the United States.

First, we're introducing Office 365 for Government.  Office 365 for Government is a new multi-tenant service that stores US government data in a segregated community cloud. Like other Office 365 offerings, it includes productivity and collaboration services including Exchange Online, Lync Online, SharePoint Online, and Office Professional Plus.  Customers can contact their Microsoft representative for details and to explore the service.

We also know that security and privacy play a big role in any decision to move to the cloud.  Today, Office 365 supports the most rigorous global and regional standards such as ISO 27001, SAS70 Type II, EU Safe Harbor, EU Model Clauses, the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the US Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and the US Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).  To meet evolving needs, we also plan to support IPv6 in Office 365 for Government by September of this year, and we're taking steps to soon support Criminal Justice Information Security (CJIS) policies. 

We look forward to working with our government customers on these initiatives in the coming months.

Kirk Koenigsbauer 

Corporate Vice President

Microsoft Office Division

Office 365

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  • Today, Microsoft is excited to introduce Office 365 for Government to our line-up of cloud offerings

  • Great to see Microsoft continuing to enhance Office 365 for vertical markets. But you missed a huge opportunity here. You failed to mention government channel partners that are succeeding with Office 365. Microsoft has to remember the channel in announcements like this.

    -jp

    Joe Panettiei

    Editorial Director, Talkin' Cloud

    http://www.talkincloud.com

  • So, will this be available for County Government?

  • Is this service available for companies who work with the government, for example government contractors?  This would make working with certain agencies easier if the service were available for contractors as well.

  • I'm a law enforcement agency and I'm VERY interested in moving forward with Office 365. What is the timeline for being CJIS compliant?

  • Josh Condie – Yesterday, Microsoft announced Office 365 for Government.  This represents a great

  • It has been a busy and big week for Microsoft! I want to ag ...

  • Posted by: Richard Saunders , Director, Trustworthy Computing I was at the Cloud Asia event in Singapore recently. One of the sessions was led by an exec from Changi Airport in which he likened internet security to airport security. Jetlag and the passing

  • Great chance not only for email but especially for SharePoint Online to use for secure collaboration by government customers. Don't forget to integrate your local data by synchronizing data to the cloud, e.g. file system, database content, Office files etc. See here hor this works:

    www.layer2.de/.../Cloud-Connector-for-SharePoint-2010-Office365.aspx

  • (この記事は Whymicrosoft.com に 2012 年 8 月 1 日に投稿された記事 の翻訳です) Google Apps が政府機関のセキュリティ要件を満たすかどうかを懸念している政府機関のお客様は

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