Microsoft compliance tools
Risk assessment teams in financial services organizations face important challenges in mapping internal corporate controls to effective capabilities of the cloud and discerning responsibilities between the customer and the cloud provider. Microsoft helps in alleviating these challenges for financial service customers, with products having capabilities that are advancing exponentially with the advancement of AI.
Programmatic compliance
Compliance continues to be a major hurdle for cloud adoption, as the work tends to be manual, time-consuming, and error-prone. Programmatic compliance addresses these challenges by delivering unified, machine-readable, and retrievable compliance data.
With the Programmatic Compliance tool, you can validate compliance multiple services at a time based on selected industry standards. As a result, your organization can drastically improve time-to-value. Furthermore, a streamlined user interface helps in compliance, with personas such as service owners and cloud architects having a single-pane-of-glass view.
Programmatic compliance focuses on enabling three pivotal personas and their scenarios within the compliance lifecycle:
- A compliance officer ensures Microsoft provides compliance capabilities for a given service, to meet the company's industry and internal standards.
- The service owner assesses risk for the service and evaluates the controls and policies to approve or deny a service for deployment.
- The cloud architect needs to understand any actions the other personas take to configure and maintain the compliance and security of each service within their solution.
Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager
Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is a tool that helps organizations manage compliance across multicloud environments. It helps assessing data protection risks, implementing controls, staying updated with regulations, and reporting to auditors.
The Compliance Manager overview page displays your current compliance score and guides you through key improvement actions. By completing these actions, you earn points that contribute to your overall compliance score, helping you prioritize tasks to enhance your compliance posture. The tool includes over 360 regulatory templates for creating assessments and provides recommended guidance for aligning with data protection regulations. Compliance Manager also lets you assign, test, and monitor compliance activities, centralizing your efforts and simplifying the compliance process.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that includes security measures and practices designed to protect cloud-based applications from various cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Defender for Cloud combines the capabilities of:
- A development security operations (DevSecOps) solution that unifies security management at the code level across multicloud and multiple-pipeline environments
- A cloud security posture management (CSPM) solution that surfaces actions that you can take to prevent breaches
- A cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) with specific protections for servers, containers, storage, databases, and other workloads
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