Department of State for ITAR data or sponsorship by a government entity with specific requirements for the handling of data.
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Validation may require proof of registration with the U.S. Validation of eligibility by Microsoft will include confirmation of handling data subject to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), law enforcement data subject to the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Policy, or other government-regulated or controlled data. Office 365 Government is available to (1) US federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government entities, and (2) other entities that handle data that is subject to government regulations and requirements and where use of Office 365 Government is appropriate to meet these requirements, subject to validation of eligibility. Office 365 Government complies with certifications and accreditations that are required for US Public Sector customers.
Your organization's customer content is stored within the United States.Īccess to your organization's customer content is restricted to screened Microsoft personnel. Your organization's customer content is logically segregated from customer content in Microsoft's commercial Office 365 Services.
In addition to the features and capabilities of Office 365, the organizations that use Office 365 Government benefit from the following features unique to Office 365 Government: The Office 365 GCC High and DoD environments deliver compliance with Department of Defense Security Requirements Guidelines, Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations Supplement (DFARS), and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). The Office 365 GCC environment provides compliance with federal requirements for cloud services, including FedRAMP High, Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations Supplement (DFARS), and requirements for criminal justice and federal tax information systems (CJI and FTI data types). Office 365 Government plans are monthly subscriptions and can be licensed to an unlimited number of users. It defines the unique commitments and differences compared to Office 365 Enterprise offerings. The Office 365 Government service description is designed to serve as an overlay to the general Office 365 service description. We recommend that you read this service description alongside other Microsoft 365 and Office 365 service descriptions.
This service description provides an overview of features that are specific to Office 365 Government US environments. In response to the unique and evolving requirements of the United States public sector, Microsoft has created Office 365 Government plans (or Office 365 Government). Thank you for your support as we take steps to ensure that our services remain available and reliable in these extraordinary times.
For details about screening requirements, see the GCC service description. Qualified personnel meet GCC requirements for access to customer content. Qualified, screened personnel are monitoring these servers for potential access to customer data by reviewing any interactive log-ons to these servers. However, these servers are processing audio and video for calls and conferences and are operating under our commercial staff during this interim period. These audio/video servers reside within the Microsoft Azure FedRAMP High accreditation boundary servers in the United States and do not store any customer content. In response to the unprecedented increase in calls, and to ensure continuity and availability, Microsoft is allowing Microsoft Teams GCC audio/video servers to leverage processing capacity in our commercial datacenters, as well as in our government datacenters. Microsoft Teams is experiencing a tremendous spike in online calls and audio/video conferencing due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.