Microsoft has launched an end-to-end program designed to help clients and partners serving as defense suppliers prepare for and facilitate their compliance with the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. The Microsoft CMMC acceleration program seeks to help DoD suppliers “improve their cybersecurity maturity, develop the cyber critical thinking skills essential to CMMC, and benefit from the compliance capabilities native to Azure and Azure Government,” Lily Kim, general manager of Azure Global at Microsoft, wrote in a blog entry posted Tuesday.

Databricks has received certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for a unified data analytics platform designed to process highly sensitive information.

Microsoft has rolled out a service meant to help organizations comply with moderate-level security controls under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

Microsoft has expanded the availability of its public cloud computing services and regions in the U.S. from moderate to high impact level through a provisional authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

Microsoft has unveiled two new data center regions of the Azure Government Secret cloud platform designed to host secret-level classified workloads and ensure access to mission-critical information.