What is Microsoft Office 365 GCC high?

What is Microsoft Office 365 GCC high?

The Office 365 Government – GCC High environment provides compliance with US government requirements for cloud services. Your organization’s customer content is stored within the United States. Access to your organization’s customer content is restricted to screened Microsoft personnel.

What is GCC GCC high?

GCC High is a copy of the DOD cloud environment for use by DOD contractors and cabinet-level agencies as well as cleared personnel. One critical distinction: when handling classified data, environments have a high side and a low side, the high side existing so users can handle classified data.

What is included in GCC high?

What is available in GCC High? M365 GCC High includes many of the same feature sets and products of the commercially available Microsoft 365 (Microsoft 365 Commercial): SharePoint Online, Teams, Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business, etc. However, full parity is not achieved.

Is GCC high FedRAMP high?

We’re excited to announce that our Office 365 Government GCC environment now has a FedRAMP High SAR (security assessment report). …

Do I need GCC high?

That’s correct, you do not need GCC High to meet CMMC. There are no requirements in the Cyber Security Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) that require GCC High. HOWEVER, if you handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), you will need GCC High.

Is Microsoft Office 365 FedRAMP certified?

We are pleased to announce that Microsoft Office 365 has been granted FedRAMP Authority to Operate (ATO) by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG).

What is the difference between GCC and GCC high?

What is the Difference Between GCC and GCC High? Both Government Cloud Computing and GCC High offer similar features and functionality. The main difference is that GCC offers cloud services that comply with federal, criminal justice, and federal tax information systems requirements.

Is GCC high required?

GCC High is not required to meet CMMC at any Level. However, Microsoft’s official recommendation is for organizations planning or required to meet CMMC Levels 3-5 should deploy to Microsoft 365 GCC High.

How do you get approved for GCC high?

Previously, the only way to gain access to GCC High was through submitting a contract to the Microsoft team that calls out ITAR, Export Controlled, CUI or CMMC as requirements OR providing a letter from a federal customer to validate the company’s contractual obligations.

Why is GCC high?

GCC High was created to meet the needs of DoD and Federal contractors that needed to meet the stringent cybersecurity and compliance requirements of NIST 800-171, FedRAMP High, and ITAR, or who need to manage CUI/CDI.

Who needs GCC high?

What are the features of Office 365 government GCC high?

The Office 365 Government – GCC High environment provides compliance with US government requirements for cloud services. In addition to enjoying the features and capabilities of Office 365, organizations benefit from the following features that are unique to Office 365 Government – GCC High:

Is the SharePoint feature available in GCC high?

The Microsoft Support rep believes that those 2 features are not available in GCC High (he promised to send us documentation) and said there are many cases open because people want the features but they don’t know when it will be available. I would wait if I didn’t have a couple of urgent projects that would leverage those capabilities.

Is there a SharePoint service for the government?

SharePoint is available for the Government Community Cloud (GCC), GCC High, and DoD environments. For more info about the government cloud, including eligibility and purchasing, see Microsoft 365 Government – how to buy. To compare Office 365 Government plans, see Office 365 Government plans.

What do you need to know about Office 365?

To learn about required endpoints when managing network connectivity, see the Office 365 U.S. Government GCC High endpoints or Office 365 U.S. Government DoD endpoints. In addition to enjoying the features and capabilities of Office 365, organizations benefit from the following features that are unique to the US government cloud environments: