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Public Sector - Defending Your Data
As public sector organizations continue to digitize their programs and services and more data moves to the cloud, it’s critical to ensure you are doing everything to protect and secure your data estate. Explore this collection of resources to help you learn more about data protection and privacy and understand how Microsoft responds to data protection, privacy and residency requirements.
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Microsoft Datacenter security
Learn how Microsoft uses Defense-In-Depth to secure our datacenters against unauthorized access, environmental hazards, and other physical threats, as well as how Microsoft implements resilient architecture, business continuity, and disaster recovery to maintain the availability of our services.
Data protection and privacy
Privacy is vital to the public sector in serving and maintaining the trust of citizens everywhere. The public sector needs to rely on powerful, compliant cloud solutions that enable them to safeguard sensitive information and protect individuals' data as the foundation of public trust. At Microsoft, we value, protect, and defend privacy. Learn about data protection, privacy regulations, and privacy.
Optimize government operations with Azure
Explore how Azure keeps to strong principles and commitments that give public sector customers confidence that their data is secure. And discover how Microsoft cloud and edge enforce data sovereignty, addresses custom compliance requirements, and apply maximum available protection to highly sensitive data.
Data classification
For the public sector, protecting data and information is a top priority. Learn about how Microsoft approach to data classification allows to determine and assign value to your organization's data and provides a common starting point for governance.
Data residency
Learn how Microsoft responds to Data residency requirements by the public sector, and our commitments towards enhanced residency capabilities for processing and storing our public sector customers’ personal data.
Data governance and compliance
Regulations regarding data governance don’t exist in a vacuum. Their purpose is to help create a more ethical digital world. Learn how Microsoft has unified data governance and compliance capabilities in Microsoft Purview, providing a simpler and more unified approach to data, simultaneously managing risk and compliance.