Open Access Government - Technology News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Robin Campbell-Burt, CEO at Code Red, discusses cybersecurity regulations in 2023 and how they will shape our futures. What cybersecurity trends can we expect to see in 2023? This can mean, for example, that organisations skip security measures that the compliance department thinks of as a data risk.

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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. For example, only central IT typically has access to the Microsoft Purview portal.

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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? Unfortunately, organisations looking to attract and retain cybersecurity professionals will face an uphill battle in 2023. increase in the 2021 employment pool.

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Microsoft Public Sector

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights Preparing for Security Copilot in US Government Clouds With the announcement of Security Copilot back in March, there has been a growing demand to understand and expand the role of machine learning (ML) in security.

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FedTech Magazine

JULY 22, 2024

Critical access facilities are located more than 35 miles from comparable facilities, making their continuous operation essential to residents and their need for security funding, assessments, tools and training great. trillion healthcare industry increased to 389 in 2023, up from 214 the prior year.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

As we begin 2023, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) worldwide public sector (WWPS) team wanted to share a few of our predictions for public sector technology this year. 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

MAY 1, 2024

After migration, Renaissance realized performance, scalability, and security improvements, all while reducing cloud spend by 30 percent. This post describes the Renaissance migration journey from March to October 2023. Learn by doing AWS recommended an Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) focused on migrations in June 2023.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Nadav Avni, Chief Marketing Officer at Radix Technologies , explores three reasons to add VR MDM software to your tech stack in 2023. Managing VR and AR devices requires keeping the operating system, firmware, and applications up-to-date. Restricting device usage based on need helps secure the devices and prevent abuse.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Today, government IT teams find themselves navigating a labyrinth of security controls, compliance requirements, and risk management practices. As a result, by embracing a multi-cloud strategy, government agencies must also be prepared to address a series of operational and security challenges. But don’t stop there.

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GovLoop

JULY 18, 2023

Legacy technology debt, and almost as importantly, legacy IT approaches, are core challenges,” said Matt Barry, Chief Operating Officer, HP Federal. Good Security Is Good CX Because improved employee experience leads to improved customer experience (CX), making things work easily is essential. That’s especially true of security.

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Center for Community Progress

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The National Land Bank Network (NLBN) at the Center for Community Progress is a community of practice to unite and support the over 300 land banks operating throughout the country. The 2023 State of Land Banking survey received complete responses from approximately 30 percent of those land banks (92 completed, 20 partial).

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Microsoft Public Sector

JUNE 20, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights How Microsoft 365 helps public sector organizations embrace generational diversity Empowering your workforce with modern productivity, collaboration, and security tools can help your agency embrace generational diversity and across four critical areas: recruitment, retention, productivity, and learning.

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Microsoft Public Sector

AUGUST 21, 2023

Expanding cloud logging to give customers deeper security visibility In response to the increasing frequency and evolution of nation-state cyberthreats, Microsoft is taking additional steps to protect our customers and increase the secure-by-default baseline of our cloud platforms. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Microsoft Public Sector

APRIL 20, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights What’s New in Microsoft Teams at Enterprise Connect 2023 SIP Gateway is now available for Government Community Cloud customers to enable core Teams calling functionality on legacy devices. Microsoft operates its US Federal business out of the GCC-H and Azure Government cloud. Thank you for your patience.

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Air Force squadrons such as the 561st Network Operations Squadron are getting “a lot” of exposure to zero-trust security as they prepare to overhaul security architectures, according to its commander. Speaking Tuesday at the Rocky Mountain Cyberspace Symposium 2023, Lt.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

The 14 participating startups are: Delta-V Analytics Inc (New Castle, Delaware) – Delta-V Analytics provides a cloud-based platform that automates satellite constellation operations using digital twin technology. In Orbit Aerospace (Torrance, California) – In Orbit is building infrastructure to support mass manufacturing in space.

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Microsoft Public Sector

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights Microsoft 365 Government price updates - into effect March 1st 2023 On August 2021 we announced an update to our pricing for Microsoft 365 (which applies to all commercial customers: Enterprise, US Government, and Business). For more general information uncheck these boxes under “Cloud Instance”.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) made more than 140 announcements at re:Invent 2023. Take advantage of generative AI 2023 was a big year for generative AI at AWS. QnAIntent (preview) can be used to securely connect FMs to school data systems for RAG so chatbots can provide student-relevant information. WorkSpaces, and WorkSpaces Web.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2024

Consumer messaging apps and government While consumer messaging apps have become a convenient and easily accessible communications and collaboration option, they pose significant security risks. The problem is that consumer apps are designed for massive scale and extensibility, not necessarily for security.

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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. It extends beyond a singular component, impacting all facets, and operates holistically. However, embracing new approaches introduces challenges.

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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. In 2021, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) debuted a catalog of nearly 300 known, exploited vulnerabilities; that list now stands at around 900. In a January 2023 report, the U.S.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 3, 2023

A practical guide to transforming security teams, processes, and tools to support cloud security development Every day, we see new challenges emerging with cloud security which teams struggle to tackle. How do we ingrain security into the culture of cloud teams and get developers to remediate?

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Neglecting regular patch management can create gaping security holes, leaving agencies susceptible to malware, ransomware and other attacks. Ignoring updates to software and operating systems that prevent exploitation of known security flaws can prove devastating both operationally and financially. million in 2023

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The UK Government’s Cyber Breaches Survey in 2023 estimates that UK organisations suffered 2.39 A growing threat The threat to UK organisations was demonstrated in the recent Black Basta cyberattacks in March 2023, which affected sensitive data handled by the public outsourcing business Capita. What makes good cyber resilience?

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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

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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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A new sustainable tech agreement with 172 suppliers set to launch on October 31, 2023 The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has recently granted a comprehensive agreement contract for technology-related products and services, which includes a specialised category for acquiring and overseeing IT resources with a greater emphasis on sustainability.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

In 2023, the AWS Space Accelerator will call on teams and resources across Amazon to help emerging startups focus on cloud-powered solutions that support the use of space as a sustainable and usable environment for years to come, as well as solutions that positively impact life on Earth.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will be separate and independent from our existing Regions and its entire infrastructure and operations will be located within the European Union. It will have the same security, availability, and performance that existing Regions provide our customers.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 8, 2022

During a recent online training entitled “Top Reasons Agencies Are Moving to Cloud in 2023,” GovLoop heard from three government and industry experts, who discussed why agencies sometimes balk at adopting cloud solutions. By and large, the skills needed to operate cloud technology are not included in standard IT training.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In this post, learn use cases for digital twins, plus how to create an open-source digital twin sample front-end application built with AWS Amplify , Amazon Cognito , and AWS IoT Core that you can use as a starting point for building efficient, scalable, and secure digital twin solutions.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Launched in 2020, StateRAMP was designed by its board of directors to support state entities that want to leverage cloud-based services in a secure way. Instead of each entity performing their own assessment, the state can leverage a single authorization to operate (ATO). How is StateRAMP different than FedRAMP?

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The White House National Cybersecurity Strategy highlights a growing risk at the intersection of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT). Yet OT vendors typically focus on physical security, while IT vendors may not understand the operational environment. How best to succeed in this environment?

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Partnership for Public Service

JUNE 21, 2023

Continue reading to learn more about these outstanding civil servants and vote for your favorite to be crowned the 2023 People’s Choice Award winner. The post Meet the top 6 finalists for the 2023 Service to America Medals® People’s Choice Award appeared first on Partnership for Public Service.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JANUARY 12, 2024

economy and national security by supplying goods and services to the Department of Defense (DoD) and other governmental entities. However, the DIB confronts escalating cyber risks from adversaries aiming to steal, disrupt, or sabotage its operations and assets. The Defense Industrial Base (DIB) plays a crucial role in both the U.S.

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