Azure Partner Roundup: Government cloud instances; Remote onboarding; Strategic investment

Telos provides Xacta for US Government cloud instances, Socure will provide identity verification services for remote onboarding, and Sverica invests in WinWire Technologies.

Telos provides Xacta for US Government cloud instances

Telos Corporation announced that its Xacta offering is available for all Azure US Government cloud regions, including Azure Government, Government Secret, and Government Top Secret. Available through Azure Marketplace, the offering is intended to support compliance. It incorporates Azure Policy, automatically generating accreditation packages. Customers can also track compliance using Blueprints.

"Microsoft has been a tremendous partner. From the very beginning we have had a shared vision for streamlining the risk management and compliance process, and together we’ll begin to considerably reduce the time and cost it takes to receive and maintain authorizations," said John B. Wood, CEO and chairman, Telos, in a statement.

"Xacta is well known for its ability to streamline the cyber risk management process. We’re pleased to expand our Xacta deployment and work together with Telos to automate the assessment and authorization process for our Azure Government clouds," stated Zach Kramer, partner engineering manager for Azure Global.

Socure will provide identity verification services for remote onboarding