Exchange Online Protection (Governmental Community Cloud Pricing) provides a layer of protection features that are deployed across a global network of datacenters, helping organizations simplify the administration of their messaging environments.
With Exchange Online Protection, businesses can eliminate threats before they reach the corporate firewall with multi-layered, real-time anti-spam and multi-engine anti-malware protection. The service protects company’s IP reputation by using separate outbound delivery pools for high-risk email. It features five financially backed SLAs attest to a high quality of service, including protection from 100% of known viruses and 99% of spam.
Government/GCC
Exchange Online Protection (Governmental Community Cloud Pricing) provides all the functionality of its enterprise counterpart (Microsoft Exchange Online Protection) but is hosted in a separate, secured environment and adds compliance features like accreditations, personnel screening, and data residency that enable the service to meet the unique needs of US Government customers. State and local government customers that require compliance-level data protection and security can also take advantage of Exchange Online Protection (Governmental Community Cloud Pricing).
Eligibility and Validation: Microsoft Exchange Government plans are available to (1) qualified government entities, including US federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government entities, and (2) other entities (subject to validation of eligibility) who handle data subject to government regulations and requirements, where use of Microsoft Exchange Government is appropriate to meet these regulations and requirements. Click on the links below for more information about GCC customer Eligibility and Validation.
When completing the GCC approval form, please ensure that the customer name on the form is no longer than 50 characters.
Please note: The approval and provisioning of net-new GCC tenants may take up to five (5) business days to complete.
