Microsoft has created seven principles that governments, academics, business leaders and public health entities must follow to ensure system and data privacy amid COVID-19 response efforts.

Caselines has rolled out a document and multimedia management tool designed to handle files on justice processes through Microsoft’s Azure Government cloud service.

Microsoft has made its threat notification service available for free to hospitals, clinics, medical device, pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, clinicians and other health care providers offering front-line services during the COVID-19 pandemic. AccountGuard is designed to monitor threat actors targeting personal email accounts and enterprise mailboxes and send alerts to users to help them counter cyber attacks, Tom Burt, corporate vice president for customer security and trust at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday.

Jan Neutze, senior director for digital diplomacy at Microsoft, has said that the company is launching efforts as part of its Defending Democracy program to address election security amid the ongoing health crisis.

Microsoft has attained a new Department of Defense provisional authorization for a government-tailored platform designed to secure classified information.

Kevin Dallas, an over three-decade information technology industry veteran, has joined cloud and cybersecurity firm Wind River as its new CEO.

Microsoft has recognized ECS for the latter’s achievements in data science, big data, advanced analytics and business intelligence.

CenturyLink has been tapped as a partner under Microsoft Azure’s Networking Managed Service Provider program to assist customers in migrating, linking, managing and augmenting their cloud environments.

Microsoft has provided new software to help ensure the security of election activities in Wisconsin, CNBC reported Tuesday.

Microsoft, Verizon and Medivis have formed a partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs in support of the agency’s 5G-equipped medical facility in Palo Alto, Calif.

NewWave Telecom and Technologies has integrated Looker’s data platform into Microsoft Azure’s government-tailored cloud platform.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 8, 2020 — Amazon Web Services, Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) received contracts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to make the agency’s environmental data available on the companies’ cloud platforms, GovCon Wire reported Dec. 23.

Microsoft recommends the public take cybersecurity precautions after the company took legal action against a North Korean group that used phishing and malware to target U.S., Japanese and South Korean entities.

Microsoft has launched a new cloud-based offering that uses artificial intelligence to handle blockchain transaction data, Coindesk reported Friday.

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Catalyst Space Accelerator unit has selected eight firms for its fifth accelerator session launched in partnership with Microsoft.