security-controls-policy.md

title	Azure Policy Regulatory Compliance controls for Azure Backup
description	Lists Azure Policy Regulatory Compliance controls available for Azure Backup. These built-in policy definitions provide common approaches to managing the compliance of your Azure resources.
ms.date	07/04/2025
ms.topic	sample
ms.service	azure-backup
ms.custom	subject-policy-compliancecontrols
author	AbhishekMallick-MS
ms.author	v-mallicka

Azure Policy Regulatory Compliance controls for Azure Backup

This article lists the compliance domains and security controls for Azure Backup.

Regulatory Compliance in Azure Policy provides Microsoft created and managed initiative definitions, known as built-ins, for the compliance domains and security controls related to different compliance standards. You can assign the built-ins for a security control individually to help make your Azure resources compliant with the specific standard.

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Next steps

• Azure Policy Regulatory Compliance.
• Built-ins on the Azure Policy GitHub repo.
• Encryption using Transport Layer Security.
• Encryption using Azure security baseline for Backup.