AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

These additional blog posts look further at measuring and mitigating bias: Tune ML models for additional objectives like fairness with SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning Use SageMaker Clarify to explain and detect bias Privacy protection and security When working on a new use case, consider doing a privacy impact assessment (PIA) at the design phase.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 15, 2023

The NHS’ Data Security and Protection Toolkit responds to several crippling ransomware attacks and data breaches. 2017 the Wannacry attack hit almost a hundred countries, targeting public and private sector organisations. That means having reliable backups but also being able to isolate all valuable data.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 7, 2024

Since 2017, ASTERRA has successfully verified more than 100,000 leaks, saving 368 billion gallons of water. Overcoming compute capacity constraints and unlocking innovation ASTERRA stores large amounts of data, predominantly satellite imagery, in a secure, cost-optimized and durable way using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This most recent milestone is not just about technology, it continues the standard of excellence for Microsoft dating back to 2017, when DISA awarded an IL5 PA to Azure Government, making it the first IL5 PA awarded to a hyperscale cloud provider. With Azure OpenAI, these scenarios are not just possibilities—they are realities.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Ransomware attacks continue to be the most dominant threat to UK organisations and are having catastrophic consequences on critical national infrastructure The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), part of (GCHQ), recently released its annual review reflecting on the challenges and milestones across the cybersecurity industry.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Whitson has been honored with various NASA medals in Leadership, Outstanding Leadership, and Exceptional Service, as well as Glamour’s Woman of the Year (2017), TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World (2018), and Women in Aviation Lifetime Achievement Award (2017). Register for AWS re:Invent 2022 today.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The election system of `the United States was designated a critical infrastructure in 2017. In this podcast we look at one individual county and the security measures used from a physical and cybersecurity perspective, but then also preventing voter fraud from occurring.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Johnson joined Covered California after serving as the chief deputy director at the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), California’s Medicaid agency, from 2007 to 2017. Anthony oversees delivery of a FedNow® solution that will fully meet market-driven business requirements as well as resiliency and security standards.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

Cloud technology makes it possible for every service to be simple, reliable, scalable, adaptable, and secure. Transparency – A 2017 study of more than four million government contracts in the European Union (EU) found that every additional item of information published about a tender decreased the risk of a single-bid contract.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 18, 2022

These attacks, and others going back as far as 2017, attributed to Russia by the CIA , have shut down airports, banks, government ministries and even radiation monitoring at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Keeping critical national infrastructure secure. A chilling reminder of the damage a determined state actor can cause.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Key topics covered include addressing concerns around data sovereignty, security, lock-in risks and budget control while highlighting AWS capabilities and commitments in these areas. Advancing data governance and stewardship practices to build trust and enable secure data sharing between departments, including safeguarding privacy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

In the Philippines, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) published the country’s Cloud First Policy to drive cloud adoption and “foster flexibility, security, and cost-efficiency.”

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Reprogramming the City

MARCH 5, 2021

It is the winning entry of the “ Arches Challenge Competition ”, launched In 2017 by Meanwhile Space and supported by Lambeth Council and the Mayor of London. Behind the Blue Doors: Repurposed Railway Arches Become Affordable Workspaces.

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GovLoop

MAY 25, 2023

Cyber experts often emphasize that there’s no silver bullet for improving the security of government systems. A recent study by Tenable Research found that many organizations were falling victim to attacks that exploited well-known vulnerabilities, including some dating to 2017. The problem is not that technology always falls short.

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GovLoop

JUNE 21, 2024

Not One Solution, but Many Under National Security Memorandum 10, federal agencies must address quantum’s security threat. DigiCert has been helping customers prepare for Q Day since 2017, implementing its solutions for multiple use cases. At DigiCert, we call it Q Day.”

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FedHeads

MARCH 19, 2018

This week, Francis and Robert welcome Marc Pearl, President and CEO of the Homeland Security Defense Business Council (HSDBC) and David Haun, Director at Grant Thornton to discuss the latest survey of the homeland security enterprise about the effort to protect the homeland.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 15, 2022

In essence, they are capable of threatening the security of commonly used public key cryptosystems and exposing the vulnerabilities that exist within today’s fundamental digital systems that are used to power various internet services, including online financial transactions, e-commerce, and secure communications.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

condo collapse that killed 98 people and the Grenfell Tower fire in London, killing 72 in 2017. A false sense of security can be deceiving and risk compensation explains this safety paradox. This can be seen more recently after events like the 2021 Surfside, Fla.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

One of the biggest problems with cycling take up, besides the fact that it's slower, so longer trips are less likely to be capturable--even so, 64% of all US trips are 7 miles or less--is secure bicycle parking. Sure there is bicycle parking, but most of it isn't secure. Lack of secure parking is a real problem.

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GovCast

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Oct 1, 2018 | This sixth episode features Haiyan Song, Senior Vice President of Security Markets at Splunk. Song was named in the top 50 most powerful women in tech in 2016 and 2017, but her childhood dream was actually to be an astronaut. after college in the late 1980s, fell into the database security world, and loved it.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

These agreements help bring the transformative power of the cloud to more public sector organizations, and can help them to develop cost-effective and secure services at a faster pace. This is providing the scale, speed, and security needed to support today’s genomics research and future growth. Shaping a sustainable future using AWS.

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Google Public Sector

JANUARY 6, 2023

How can IT and security administrators support this sort of collaboration while ensuring appropriate safeguards, promoting a cohesive working environment, and reducing the risks posed from shadow IT as users fill their technological gaps with external, unapproved tools?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In 2017, one study estimated that the cost of care for patients suffering from the nine most common neurological conditions amounted to nearly $800 billion in the US alone. One in three people globally is thought to suffer from a neurological disorder at some point.

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The goal of the collaboration is to provide flexible and secure infrastructure to efficiently store and deliver data to NEON’s users and, ultimately, enable users who couldn’t access data on this scale before or design new models without programming skills, to advance their research with cutting-edge tools.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

September 2024 Update Microsoft 365 Commercial + Azure Commercial FedRAMP in Azure The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services.

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Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

Dawn Meyerriecks is a leading voice at the intersection of science, technology, and government, with more than 40 years in government and industry service, including national security and defense. Dr. Heather Wilson From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Heather Wilson served as Secretary of the U.S. AmeriCares, and others.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Speeding time to high performance computing research with RONIN and AWS In 2017, Leyton-Brown and Newman returned to the FCC auction design to assess its strength and weaknesses, in part because of new publicly available data about how TV broadcast and wireless carrier bidders responded to the novel auction design.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 15, 2023

This was back in 2017, and AI has significantly improved since then. On top of this, there are added cyber security risks and issues that point towards consumers not being fully aware of the risks or how their data is being used due to unclear legal jargon in consent forms that are often skimmed over.

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Super Library Marketing

APRIL 22, 2024

Koios has successfully applied for and managed Google Ad Grants for public libraries since 2017. Google will also review the library’s website for quality and security issues; it will reject websites that are not https-enabled or do not meet their quality standards.” It is the only member of this group specializing in public libraries.

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Partnership for Public Service

MAY 21, 2024

Before starting at NOAA in 2017, Hassett was a Peace Corps volunteer in Tonga and AmeriCorps volunteer in Pittsburgh. The front of The Washington Post isn’t, ‘every Social Security check hit the bank,’” he said. Hassett emphasized the underappreciated aspects of federal work, noting that positive achievements often go unnoticed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

Banner / The Seattle Times) OTOH, it's not just office buildings (" Stress Builds as Office Building Owners and Lenders Haggle Over Debt ," New York Times ), hotels (" Difficulty Securing Financing Halts More Than Half Of U.S. Hotel Development ," Bisnow), and retail spaces that are getting crushed.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

With deep visibility and the potential of AI/ML-powered business intelligence, they can conduct thorough analysis of actionable data patterns, ultimately making roads safer and more secure to navigate. Solution walkthrough For this blog post, we use a publicly available dataset from Kaggle.

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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Technically speaking, the US Sovereign Cloud aligns with the higher watermark of compliance with the US Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG) Impact Level 5 (IL5). For example, in late 2017, Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc across Texas. Thus, the Microsoft Collaboration Framework was born.

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Center for Community Progress

APRIL 6, 2023

Despite their limited capacity and resources, the COGs relentlessly advocated for investment to address the significant amount of vacant and abandoned properties harming their communities, culminating in the creation of the TCLB in 2017.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

APRIL 7, 2017

He later served as the Chief Human Capital Officer for the Department of Homeland Security, which has more than 240,000 civilian and military employees. At DLA, he helped the agency identify more than $50 million in administrative and operational savings.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 18, 2024

For example, the updated Electronic Communications Code (2017) curtailed councils’ reliance on concession contracts as a way to enable small cell deployments in a local area. The 2017 ‘code’ does not provide a one-size-fits-all solution for the industry either – which may mean we need to look at legislation again.

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Government Technology Insider

MAY 23, 2024

ACCESS Sonoma emerged in 2017 as a way to combat data siloing between various safety net departments , sharing data from various health and human services programs in a hybrid cloud-based environment.

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