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Understand Microsoft best practices and standards

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Microsoft uses many of the latest products, features, and capabilities from across the Microsoft Cloud. You benefit from the continuous work within our product groups to align with the latest rules and standards for enterprise compliance and security both globally and within the specific regions where you operate. You can learn more about Microsoft’s compliance portfolio at the Microsoft compliance site.

You're wholly responsible for ensuring your own compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. To help you meet your compliance obligations across regulated industries and markets worldwide, Microsoft maintains the largest compliance portfolio in the industry. Microsoft groups compliance offerings into four segments: globally applicable, US government, industry-specific, and region/country-specific.

Compliance offerings are based on various types of assurances that include formal certifications, attestations, validations, authorizations, and assessments produced by independent third-party auditing firms, and contractual amendments, self-assessments, and customer guidance documents produced by Microsoft.

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