https://www.cloud-kings.com/blog Practical notes on Azure, Microsoft 365, security and compliance, written when there is something worth saying. en-us https://www.cloud-kings.com/blog/what-counts-as-cui https://www.cloud-kings.com/blog/what-counts-as-cui The question that decides whether you owe 15 basic safeguarding requirements or all 110 controls — and why unmarked information is the trap that catches people. Compliance Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.cloud-kings.com/blog/gcc-high-gcc-or-commercial https://www.cloud-kings.com/blog/gcc-high-gcc-or-commercial For a defense contractor the real choice is between two Microsoft 365 environments. What decides it, and why GCC High is not automatically the safer answer. Compliance Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.cloud-kings.com/blog/cmmc-phase-2-suspension https://www.cloud-kings.com/blog/cmmc-phase-2-suspension The third-party certification requirement is on hold. Your safeguarding clauses, your SPRS affirmation, and your prime's flowdowns are not. Compliance Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.cloud-kings.com/blog/cmmc-shared-responsibility-matrix https://www.cloud-kings.com/blog/cmmc-shared-responsibility-matrix Most contractors don't fail on the controls they got wrong. They fail on the ones both parties assumed the other had. Free matrix template inside. Compliance Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.cloud-kings.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-cmmc-partner https://www.cloud-kings.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-cmmc-partner The questions that actually produce different answers from different providers — plus the ones every provider passes, and the red flags worth walking away from. Compliance Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.cloud-kings.com/blog/top-10-reasons-to-use-azure-virtual-desktop https://www.cloud-kings.com/blog/top-10-reasons-to-use-azure-virtual-desktop Ten reasons Azure Virtual Desktop is worth deploying, with the caveat attached to each — and three situations where it is the wrong answer. Azure Virtual Desktop Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://www.cloud-kings.com/blog/what-is-azure-virtual-desktop https://www.cloud-kings.com/blog/what-is-azure-virtual-desktop What Azure Virtual Desktop actually is, how it differs from a VPN and from Windows 365, when it is the right answer, and when it is not. Azure Virtual Desktop Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT