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Federal Cloud Transformation: Navigating Challenges With a Zero-Trust Approach

GovLoop

Digital transformation is a driving force for government agencies, with cloud technology playing a pivotal role. Recognizing its significance, the highest levels of government are actively embracing Zero Trust. However, the focus isn’t solely on adopting modern IT; it’s equally about safeguarding it.

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DHS Brings New Discipline to Cyber Planning

GovLoop

In 2021, DHS, like many agencies, was putting together a funding request to boost its cybersecurity work after the SolarWinds cyberattack. DHS highlighted UCMM in its “Integrated Strategy for High-Risk Management,” a biannual update to the Government Accountability Office.

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Streamlining naturalization applications with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Public Sector Blog

In the United States, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) received approximately 781,000 naturalization applications in fiscal year (FY) 2022 and completed nearly 1,076,000 applications—a 20 percent increase from FY 2021 and the highest in nearly 15 years. These challenges aren’t unique to naturalization.

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Mapping the Cyber Threat Landscape

GovLoop

In the United States, the number of unfilled jobs stands at about 410,000, a 9% increase over 2021. As Fortune points out, these shortages are good news for cyber wages — and bad news for government agencies competing for talent. Another persistent problem: Agencies aren’t applying patches to known vulnerabilities.

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How to Secure Legacy Systems

GovLoop

But legacy hardware and software, which abound in government agencies, can create a barrier to implementing zero trust. A service mesh approach, by performing tasks abstracted from existing applications, allows agencies to implement the principles of zero trust across the enterprise.

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Continuing the pace of government innovation with the cloud in Asia Pacific and Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

Enabled by cloud technology, digitized government agencies became better equipped to offer citizen and healthcare services, which helped improve and even save lives. Governments across APJ are taking bold steps to accelerate and simplify the process for public sector agencies to migrate to the cloud and leverage its benefits.

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The economic impact of AWS’s investment in Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS opened the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region in March 2011, and expanded the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region to a full Region in 2021 to give our customers in Japan even lower latency, and the ability to architect workloads for even greater fault tolerance, resiliency, and availability.