Microsoft Public Sector

JULY 20, 2023

Microsoft 365 Government Adoption Resources Empowering US public sector organizations to transition to Microsoft 365 What’s New in Microsoft Teams | June 2023 We have a great line-up of new features to announce. Public facing documentation for creating custom list templates can be found here. Thank you for your patience.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Instead of each entity performing their own assessment, the state can leverage a single authorization to operate (ATO). In June 2023, StateRAMP updated their security baselines to align with 800-53 revision 5 (R5). Patch Manager can apply patches for both operating systems and applications.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Also, scope out the Sustainability Showcase at the Caesars Forum to learn how technology is helping address challenges such as decarbonization of operations, energy and water conservation, and more. Make sure you talk to your AWS account representative to see what to join so you don’t miss the fun. See the SeloVerde 2.1

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Recent releases of powerful large language models demonstrate that AI technologies are advancing much faster than the standards, benchmarks, policy, governance, or accountability mechanisms necessary to keep them trustworthy. Even defining what AI trustworthiness looks like has been a challenge. That’s an important start.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Pictured: The AWS 2023 Justice and Public Safety GovTech Accelerator cohort at Amazon’s HQ2 for Week Zero, a three-day onboarding event to kick off the accelerator. The program will culminate with the 2023 AWS GovTech Accelerator demo day at the State of GovTech conference on November 14.

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GovLoop

MAY 25, 2023

In February 2023, for example, the Defense Department’s inspector general found that “DoD personnel are downloading mobile applications to their DoD mobile devices that could pose operational and cybersecurity risks to DoD information and information systems.” In a January 2023 report, the U.S.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MARCH 5, 2024

However, this requirement family is arguably one of the most paramount because of the remarkable growth in identity-based attacks and the need for identity architects or teams to work more closely with the Security Operations Center (SOC). Account Management It is obviously a great starting point to “a.

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AccessE11

JANUARY 2, 2024

This article will highlight some of the major changes that have began throughout 2023, with notable technology and policy leading the way. It is reshaping the delivery of services and how operations are conducted. However, the integration of AI into municipal operations also brings forth concerns and challenges.

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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. million in total annual AWS run rate cost optimization by the end of 2023. Plus, CSS realized $10.7

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 16, 2024

However, with online crime totalling $8tn globally, the system seems broken In the UK, fraud is the most experienced crime, accounting for 40% of all crimes. In response, the UK Government released a strategy in 2023 with the aim of reducing fraud by 10%. Sapphire is a UK-owned and operated cyber security company.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There, she managed and directed day-to-day operations and formulated and implemented policies to achieve the department’s mission. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting from St. She is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant in California. Louis University.

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GovLoop

APRIL 22, 2024

“Agencies have had difficulty finding employees with such knowledge and may have to pay a premium for specialized staff or contractors,” according to a recent report on modernization from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). This is called technical debt. That’s proving to be a costly assumption as those systems remain in place.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Summary Highly regulated enterprises and government agencies still maintain critical applications operating on legacy mainframe systems. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a 2023 report identifying critical federal IT legacy systems in need of modernization that were written in older languages, such as COBOL.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 17, 2024

It is structured around six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability. The challenge Throughout 2023, NHS England delivery teams, supported by AWS, undertook 10 Well-Architected reviews on critical services.

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Partnership for Public Service

MARCH 9, 2023

March 2023 marks three years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of nonessential business operations were moved online, and travel—especially international travel—was practically nonexistent. Fortunately, the bureau used the past couple of years to improve its operations. However, things changed.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MAY 31, 2024

by bringing systems online to improve efficiency and operational performance. Click play You now have a baseline for a Chatbot operational. If you need help building out your knowledge management chatbot reach out to your Microsoft Account Team and/or Microsoft Partner to help get started. Many are adopting Industry 4.0

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Since signing on as city manager for fast-growing Hutto in 2022, Earp has leveraged his passions for leadership, finance and education to help reshape the city’s operations with an emphasis on collaboration. Members hold each other accountable, according to Earp. “I Earp speaks at a Fourth of July event in Hutto in 2023. ‘I

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

On April 12, 2023, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Wideband Digital Intermediate Frequency (DigIF) for satellite operators using Software Defined Radios (SDRs) with AWS Ground Station. Please contact your AWS account team in case the contact doesn’t work as expected.

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GovLoop

MARCH 22, 2023

Intelligent data management helps organizations enhance their public-facing services, while improving their backend operations, Breakiron said. Commvault looks beyond what’s currently possible, focusing on ways to enhance data management to improve ‘operational readiness.’”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Shared Responsibility Model can help relieve a customer’s operational burden as AWS operates, manages, and controls the components from the host operating system and virtualization layer down to the physical security of the facilities where the service operates.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The number of phishing attempts — the most common type of cyberattack — increased 62% from 2023 to 2024, for instance, and identity-related incidents have directly affected 84% of organizations this year, a 68% increase from 2023. Identity-based cybersecurity threats are on the rise. Don’t just draft it out,” said Weaver.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Here we dive into emerging technologies that custom enterprise software developers use to keep solutions up-to-date and efficient The continuous growth of the enterprise application market, even in recession periods, is the main evidence that software solutions have become essential for companies’ operational efficiency and profitability.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 13, 2023

Changing behaviours such as these have influenced how attackers operate. On 23 January 2023, an updated set of requirements were published, advising organisations to realign their security practices to protect themselves against new threats better; these are set to come into force as of 24 April.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 16, 2024

Between 2019 and 2023, there was a 40% increase in the number of job openings for police officers. The goal: to bring accountability and consistency to the performance management process, boosting morale and improving retention over the long term. At the same time, the number of applications per job decreased by 39%.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Running containerized on-premises or self-managed workloads involves significant overhead to manage operational resources. AWS container services such as Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS are fully managed container orchestration services that can help deploy containerized workloads at scale while offloading the operational burden to AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

This targeted approach offers clearer accountability, enhanced transparency, simplified risk assessment, and focused testing procedures. AWS provides many security tools to maintain data privacy and is accredited to operate at the IRAP PROTECTED classification level.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As a result, by embracing a multi-cloud strategy, government agencies must also be prepared to address a series of operational and security challenges. In 2023 alone, a shocking 49% increase in runtime security incidents occurred, according to a report by Armosec. Security, however, doesn’t stop there. But don’t stop there.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

The 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (EO 14110) aims to promote the responsible use of AI while mitigating potential risks and ensuring the protection of civil rights and liberties.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 12, 2023

In England and Wales, cyber-related fraud incidents accounted for 61% of all fraud cases last year. This information overload can cause individuals to operate on autopilot, leading to a lack of critical thinking and making them vulnerable to fraudsters’ frauds. trillion for the global economy by 2025.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For the public sector, agencies (or companies) are typically managed centrally by the State, City, or County’s central IT team: Figure 1 The operations or central IT team manages the tenant on behalf of the hosted agencies. Figure 8 Select all Exchange, OneDrive accounts and Teams and click Next. Select the admin units “ DOH Org ”.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

They can result in the cancellation of operations or examinations. To minimize the risk of dangerous IT-related interruptions to operations, the European Union (EU) introduced new cybersecurity legislation NIS 2 Directive in 2023. First, they set up a landing zone , a scalable, secure multi-account AWS environment.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 26, 2024

Although, understandably with larger federal grants, there are a lot of provisions wrt accountability, bidding, etc., They also demanded financial information that Parkin said would require 350 Colorado to overhaul its accounting and reporting procedures. That's the kind of assistance that often needs to be provided.

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GovLoop

MAY 8, 2023

In fact, according to one estimate per the Government Accountability Office, the federal government made nearly $281 billion in erroneous payments in fiscal 2021 that it cannot retrieve. According to Woestman, they strengthen operational intelligence so government can respond when, where, and how it needs to.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 30, 2024

There’s been a tendency to mistake the operational resiliency and uptime capabilities of cloud environments, the ability to fail services over from one region to another …, for data protection,” said Jeff Reichard, Vice President, Solutions Strategy with Veeam, which provides software solutions that strengthen data resiliency. “The

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Both institutions faced the discontinuation of existing outsourcing contracts and required a seamless transition to a new IT operating model. AWS Organizations facilitates governance and control across multiple AWS accounts. Additionally, the global hardware shortage in 2022 exacerbated the challenges to meet the tight deadline.

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Government Technology Insider

APRIL 10, 2024

In 2023, the U.S. When states work with industry partners, the resulting infrastructure delivers both public sector outcomes and accountability and private sector efficiency, explained Drew Freme, Director, Product Strategy at Lumen. Building out broadband connectivity in Oregon comes with unique challenges.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Outside vendors may be involved, and you’ll have to account for their processes. The innovations of today are the operations of tomorrow. The different stages —initiating, planning, executing, evaluating and closing — are all going to take a certain amount of time and have their own substages and steps forward (and sometimes back.)

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