Microsoft 365 App Compliance Program is designed to provide assurance to organizations and enterprise IT admins like you, that when your data interacts with a certified application, that application has undergone a security and privacy review. Microsoft 365 Certification requires a thorough assessment of an app and its underlying infrastructure against a series of security controls under these security domains:
When an app undergoes Microsoft 365 Certification, a third-party assessor validates and assesses the app and its supporting infrastructure. An ISV must pass the controls in each of the following security domains to be awarded a certification:
1. Application Security:
The application security domain focuses upon the following three areas:
2. Operations Security:
This domain measures the alignment of an app's supporting infrastructure and deployment processes with security best practices. There are various controls assessed in this layer like malware protection, patch management, vulnerability scanning and firewalls, account management and incident management, and change control to name a few.
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3. Data Handling Security and Privacy:
Data in transit between the application user, intermediary services, and app developer's systems will be required to be protected by encryption through a TLS connection. If an application retrieves and stores customer data, the app developer will be required to implement a data storage encryption scheme that follows the specification as defined Here. This domain also tests controls like data at rest, data retention and disposal, data access management and GDPR.
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4. Optional External Compliance Audit Review
If external compliance audit reports have been included within the Publisher Attestation, certification analysts will check the validity of those reports as part of the Microsoft 365 Certification assessment. Evidence for these following external compliance audit reports can be leveraged in the certification assessment:
If you have questions, please reach out to appcert@microsoft.com.
See the following resources to learn more about the Microsoft 365 App Compliance Program:
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