Understanding Governance Requirements in Your Organization

This is often one of the biggest challenges for a large organization. What exactly are the governance requirements that need to be adhered to. A large, multi-national may have to adhere to country-specific regulatory requirements, industry-specific regulatory requirements, and then their own internal requirements. To understand the documentation exercise of requirements may be a company-wide effort involving legal teams, business units, security, and IT, and often will be broken down by business unit and application, since certain applications may fall under different types of requirements that you don’t want to apply to other applications if not required.

Once you understand the requirements, you need to ensure that your organization is compliant with them, which is achieved through governance—or at least partly. For your areas of responsibility, capabilities such as Azure Policy, Management Groups, and...