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Securely onboarding countries to the AWS Cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

In an increasingly digital world, governments and public sector entities are seeking secure and efficient ways to use cloud technologies. In this post, I share how we at AWS are collaborating with national cyber regulators and other public sector entities to enable secure adoption of the AWS Cloud across countries public sectors.

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NASCIO 2022: Massachusetts Finds Success in Employee Identity Management

State Tech Magazine

Sean Hughes, Massachusetts assistant secretary for technology, security and operations, estimated the commonwealth is about halfway through migrating its employees into a single-sign-on portal where they can access all required government…

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Battling the food security crisis with Agents for Amazon Bedrock

AWS Public Sector Blog

The 2024 version of the United Nations (UN) annual report The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World found that about 29.6 billion people, were moderately or severely food insecure in 2022, meaning they did not have adequate access to food. percent of the global population, or about 2.4

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Q+A: New York Chief Cyber Officer Colin Ahern Tackles Whole-of-State Security

State Tech Magazine

In June 2022, New York Gov. Previously, the governor established the state’s first Joint Security Operations Center and based it in Brooklyn. As chief cyber officer, Ahern manages cybersecurity threat assessment, mitigation and response for the state and across the interagency government enterprise.

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NASCIO 2022: Georgia Department of Revenue’s Modernized Tax Infrastructure

State Tech Magazine

Another factor was security and compliance, as it relates to managing this tax information, and the sensitive nature of the information contained within the repository as well. As such, its CIO, Ananias Williams III, was eager to migrate his agency to the cloud. Williams believed modernizing ultimately would save his agency money.

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US government agencies can communicate, collaborate securely with AWS Wickr

AWS Public Sector Blog

In fact, instant messaging has become the preferred form of internal workplace communications, including email, according to Gartner’s 2022 Channel Benchmark and other research studies. The problem is that consumer apps are designed for massive scale and extensibility, not necessarily for security.

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Top re:Invent 2022 announcements for K12 education

AWS Public Sector Blog

re:Invent 2022 included a slew of new service and feature announcements, with something to offer for every industry. Many schools and education service agencies are looking for ways to securely share, store, analyze, and visualize data for a variety of use cases. New services to securely share, govern, and collaborate on data.

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