16 MAR K E TWATCH Microsoft is developing Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty, which will allow public sector organisations to build and digitally innovate workloads within Microsoft Cloud while meeting compliance, security and policy requirements. The new solution, which will be built in the Microsoft public cloud, will give public sector organisations greater control over their data and increased transparency into the operational and governance processes of the cloud. Users will be able to run their workloads in any of Microsoft’s more than 60 Azure regional data centres and implement policies to ensure their data and applications remain within a preferred geographical boundary. This will allow them to fulfil specific industry, national or global security, privacy and compliance requirements. “Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty is being built on the Microsoft public cloud to accelerate digital transformation while creating a customised experience adhering to government requirements,” said Corey Sanders, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Cloud for Industry and Global Expansion Team in a blog post. “Government customers will have the power of the public cloud, addressing low cost, agility and scale expectations, with the full breadth of capabilities like modern developer services, agile infrastructure, secure DevOps, open-source platforms, modern collaboration and low-code development.” Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty will also deliver additional capabilities for encrypting and protecting sensitive data. For example, the solution will analyse more than 24 trillion security signals per day to allow users to identify and protect against local cyberattacks so that government information remains secure. In addition, customers will be able to use Azure Confidential Computing, a technology offering sovereign protection with Confidential Virtual Machines and Confidential Containers, as well as specialised hardware to create encrypted memory called Trusted Execution Environments to protect data from security breaches. Meanwhile, software-as-a-service solutions such as Double Key Encryption will allow Microsoft 365 Microsoft to launch Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty The new public sector solution will enable customers to meet the specific data sovereignty, security and privacy requirements outlined by governments
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