# Core tenets of Security, Privacy and Compliance

## Core Tenets of Security, Privacy and Compliance

## Azure: Trusted Cloud

* Security
* Privacy
* Compliance
* Resiliency
* Intellectual Property (IP) protection

## Security

* Azure is built with security in mind
* Azure delivers tools and technologies to help organizations protect applications and data
* Azure uses encryption
* Azure offers advanced tools to detect and defend against security threats

## Privacy

* You own all your data in Azure
* MSFT will not mine your data or use it for marketing
* You control where the data is located and who has access
* You can access your own data at any time for any reason
* MSFT follows a specific policy for government and law enforcement request
* MSFT follows a specific policy to remove data if you discontinue using their service

## Compliance

* MSFT follows international standards and helps customers to follow those standards too if they wish
* Azure has more then 90 compliance certifications
* Azure follows more then 50 regional standards
* Azure can help with standards in more then 35 industries like health care, government, finance, etc

## Reliability and Resiliency

* High availability
* Disaster recovery
* Backup

## Protecting IP

* You can build your solutions on top of Azure's products and services
* Azure offers specific protections against frivolous infringement claims
* `Azure IP Advantage and Shared Innovation Initiative`