A public Microsoft website offering audit reports, certifications and whitepapers that describe how its cloud services keep data safe. The material documents Microsoft's own services; nothing there evaluates a customer's tenant.
Also called STP.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Service Trust Portal in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Audit
Policy effect that lets a request proceed but flags the resource as non-compliant and logs a warning to the activity log. Microsoft suggests beginning there and later moving to something enforcing, like Deny.
- Description (Image Analysis 3.2)
Visual feature in Image Analysis 3.2 that produces natural-language caption sentences sorted by confidence, read from Description.Captions[0].Text. Version 4.0 swaps it for Caption.
- Tenant
A trusted, dedicated Microsoft Entra ID instance that stores the users, groups and app registrations of one organisation. A subscription trusts only a single tenant, although a tenant can be trusted by several subscriptions.
Related terms
- ENS
The Esquema Nacional de Seguridad sets security requirements for Spanish public-sector information systems. Microsoft's cloud services are certified against it, and the audit reports can be downloaded from the Service Trust Portal.
- IRAP
Australia's Information Security Registered Assessors Program. Approved assessors use it to evaluate cloud services that government bodies want to use, and Microsoft's assessment reports can be downloaded from the Service Trust Portal.