FedTech Magazine

JULY 17, 2023

Cyberattacks against government agencies have risen significantly since the introduction of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Binding Operational Directive 22-01. Such attacks increased 95 percent in the second half of 2022 compared with the same time period in 2021, according to CloudSEK.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But delivering a great online learning experience for students, faculty, and administrators requires higher education institutions to manage a legion of education technology (EdTech) services. There are also back-office systems needed to manage resiliency, scalability, analytics, and the security and privacy of student data.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

UK Biobank needed a purpose-built data platform with compute and data-storage capabilities that provided analysis tools in a centralized environment and the flexibility to manage increasing quantities of data, allowing researchers to work on the dataset with ease.

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GovLoop

JUNE 30, 2023

There are a lot of points of entry now,” said Raghurama Pantula, Director of Information Security for Karsun Solutions, a modernization company that applies innovative approaches to help achieve agency missions. “So, The control plane is responsible for managing the configuration of the data plane proxies.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 23, 2023

The global pool of security professionals needs to grow 65% to defend organisations’ critical assets – so how can we plug the cybersecurity skills gap? increase in the 2021 employment pool. Artificial intelligence is nowhere near the level of sophistication required to achieve this in a security context.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2025

Cloud-managed Nautilus devices are replacing legacy systems aboard ships to allow for modern service delivery and secure information access from anywhere. The Navy CIO is focused on enabling programs to accelerate the delivery of new IT capabilities to warfighters at the tactical edge, improving their decision-making and survivability.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Jon Fielding, Managing Director EMEA Apricorn, discusses the need to focus on information and data protection whilst tackling the critical ‘human factor’ in breach prevention, backup and recovery strategies. Corporate stakeholders and workers alike should be accountable for information security.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 29, 2023

We must improve security because the impacts of human error on cybersecurity can be immense, and one small slip-up can have disastrous impacts One small slip-up or moment of personal irresponsibility can cause havoc for even the most robust organisations. The statistics speak for themselves. This isn’t coincidence.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

At the heart of the program is an AI-based three dimensional (3D) food scanner, which analyzes food consumption and provides insights to both cafeteria managers and diners. For that reason, we recommend organizations create data management strategies that will continuously improve the integrity, access, and security of their data.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

CSS built and now operates the largest and most advanced mortgage securitization platform in the US, supporting Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae’s 70 percent market share of the industry with flexibility, scalability, and security at its core. Leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) , CSS manages $6.4

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

In June 2021, the AWS Aerospace and Satellite team selected OSK as part of the four-week AWS Space Accelerator program to provide guidance on how best to make huge amounts of data about pipelines usable and actionable with cloud computing and analytics technologies.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 24, 2022

As data grows exponentially, however, four key trends will inform and impact the government’s control and usage of their data: Government data is exploding, which puts the onus on improved data management. Keeping data secure. Government data is maintained through protective security policies and risk management centrally and locally.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 21, 2022

Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab from Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a no-cost service built on Jupyter notebooks that takes care of the configuration and security of setting up multi-user Jupyter notebook environments – so educators can focus on teaching and learners can accelerate their journey in ML. Reach out to the AWS Public Sector Team.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

In another instance, the North Carolina legislature tasked the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) with launching a managed care model with encounter processing capability in just one year. Through the combined efforts of the North Carolina and AWS teams, the full EPS launched on the deadline of July 1, 2021.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 provided the USDA with $390 million available in non-competitive grants to offer WIC agencies looking to innovate their technology. AZDHS wanted to increase resiliency and add a disaster recovery environment to better support program staff using the technology for WIC beneficiary case management.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

Headquartered in Hong Kong, AsiaSat offers managed media services with an end-to-end solution that addresses the changing dynamics of the video ecosystem. Our acquisition of a majority stake in OCGL in 2021 was a strategic move to enrich AsiaSat’s service portfolio.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In fact, a staggering 87 percent of public schools reported that the pandemic had negatively impacted their students’ social-emotional development during the 2021–2022 school year. The Happy Sad team was focused on making their app secure and compliant,” said Leo Zhadanovsky, chief technologist for education at AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Using AdaptX’s Adaptive Clinical Management analytics solution, built on AWS, the sustainability team at Seattle Children’s Hospital used data captured from their electronic medical systems, which includes gas flow data from their anesthesia-gas machines, to examine sources of anesthesia-gas related emissions in near real-time.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In September 2021, Japan took a leap with the establishment of its Digital Agency and the creation of the government cloud. The Digital Agency’s government cloud As the central command for Japan’s digital transformation, the Digital Agency began pursuing the development of a government cloud in 2021.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JUNE 29, 2023

Ransomware was up 25% in 2021 year accordingly to Verizon’s data breach investigations report 2022. The list of threats continues to rise, while State and Local Government leaders have more demands and less resources to combat the ever-growing security risks. Reinforce your security defenses with a data loss prevention plan.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In its 2022 annual review, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) advised that over the past 12 months, businesses and organisations in the UK reported hundreds of cyber incidents, many of which were ransomware attacks. In 2021 there was a joint advisory from the NCSC and its international partners on this increased global threat.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 17, 2024

The expansive security perimeter of a cloud network poses a significant challenge, considering that every connected device becomes a potential entry point for cyberattacks. Digital transformation is a driving force for government agencies, with cloud technology playing a pivotal role. However, embracing new approaches introduces challenges.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Italian citizens typically need to navigate through dozens of platforms in order to access public services or manage their obligations to the State. EU Digital COVID Certificate, with more than 245 million certificates obtained through IO since June 2021. Winner: IO, the app for Italian public services – PagoPA S.p.A., million users.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2024

This podcast focuses on the depth and breadth of managing an emergency management program for a major university that has multiple campuses. Her responsibilities include coordinating with various governmental and non-governmental agencies, providing guidance to campus groups, and leading a team of emergency management specialists.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MAY 11, 2021

In this podcast we learn about the National Health Security Preparedness Index This index gets an annual update and looks at the public health readiness of all 50 states and Washington, D.C. The show’s guest is Glen Mays, Professor and Chair, Department of Health Systems, Management & Policy, Colorado School of Public Health.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Nonprofits are using the cloud for fundraising, donor and member management, and communications. In 2021, Nonprofit Trends Report, Fourth Edition reports that 36% of nonprofits invested in new technology such as customer relationship management systems (CRMs), collaboration and productivity tools, machine learning (ML), and automation.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In this podcast I interview the Alaska Emergency Management Director. Bryan began his career in emergency management in 1995 with the Alaska Division of Emergency Services. Bryan was appointed by Governor Mike Dunleavy to serve as Director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management in April of 2021.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

AUGUST 3, 2021

This podcast is an interview with Luke Meyers, the Emergency Management Director for the state of Hawaii. This podcast is sponsored by T-Mobile for Government , providing innovative connectivity solutions that help government better serve citizens by enabling agencies to work more intelligently, efficiently, and securely.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

Georgia’s Department of Human Services (DHS), the largest of the state’s agencies, was able to digitally transform their business and rapidly scale their Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud adoption with AWS Managed Services (AMS). The Georgia DHS learned that agencies and organizations need precise prior planning to be successful.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

This is why, in March 2021, we launched the AWS Think Big for Small Business partner program. Since March 2021, more than 500 partners from 41 countries have participated in the TBSB program, and have launched more than 1,200 opportunities with public sector customers.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MAY 3, 2022

Who’s responsibility is it to develop the next generation of emergency managers? In the second half of the podcast, we go through a list of ten skills that emergency managers need and why he thinks these are important. Who’s responsibility is it to develop the next generation of emergency managers?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 26, 2023

This walkthrough focuses on the use case for how to use open data to support food security programming, but this solution can be applied to many other initiatives in the nonprofit space. In this blog post we are interested in food security specifically. AWS Data Exchange includes datasets from recent census surveys. An AWS Account.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 16, 2022

During the COVID-19 pandemic, public sector organizations across Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) had to act quickly to find digital solutions to everyday challenges to keep citizens safe while managing an evolving pandemic response. Staying secure with the cloud. Continue the momentum by scaling digitization.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 15, 2022

This podcast is sponsored by T-Mobile for Government , providing innovative connectivity solutions that help government better serve citizens by enabling agencies to work more intelligently, efficiently, and securely. umlaut containing crowdsourced data for user experience including task completion collected from November 2021 to May 2022.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Many schools and education service agencies are looking for ways to securely share, store, analyze, and visualize data for a variety of use cases. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed data warehousing service that lets you use SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In 2021, DHS, like many agencies, was putting together a funding request to boost its cybersecurity work after the SolarWinds cyberattack. Now the department’s Chief Information Security Officer, Baidwan puts it this way: “OK, we got $5. Now the department’s Chief Information Security Officer, Baidwan puts it this way: “OK, we got $5.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 25, 2023

Depending on what you read, a Forrester researcher coined the term in 2010 or it first came about at the Jericho Forum security consortium a few years before that. Can we implement control to where we can feel fully secure? With cyber threats and security, the work is never done. Does it live up to the hype? Is it important?

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