Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 11, 2025

The Disaster Accountability Project was created to help coordinate nongovernmental organizational efforts. Soon after, Ben launched Disaster Accountability Project, an independent watchdog, to confront the root causes of the failed Katrina response and maximize the impact of billions of dollars of disaster relief and humanitarian aid.

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Partnership for Public Service

MARCH 18, 2025

For government to perform at its best, members of the SES should beheld accountable for managing healthy, high-performing agencies and recruit, retain and developtop talent through improved hiring and leadership development.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The report notes that major incidents in which attackers used stolen valid account credentials were associated with more complex response measures by defenders, at a rate 190% greater than for…

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 10, 2025

Outposts already provides robust capabilities for resource sharing in multi-account environments. Organizations can share Outposts and their associated resources across multiple AWS accounts in the same organization in AWS Organization s using AWS Resource Access Manager ( AWS RAM ).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A conformance pack is a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be deployed as a single entity in an account and an AWS Region or across an organization in AWS Organizations. AWS Control Tower is built on top of AWS Organizations , which allows customers to group accounts and centralize billing.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

MARCH 7, 2023

Current and retired federal employees have recently reported widespread problems accessing their retirement savings and account information through the federal retirement system known as the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). Congress asked GAO to examine.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

“CentralSquare is onboarding thousands of public safety agencies to the cloud, and Landing Zone serves as the single governance platform for all these customers,” says AJ Jhala, principal account executive at AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Launch a multi-account framework with AWS Control Tower For organizations that need to establish multiple AWS accounts, customers can deploy a multi-account framework on AWS with AWS Control Tower , which can help provide resource and security isolation for customers’ AWS accounts.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

Running Sunbird RC deployment installer The deployment installer offers reusable and configurable (through environment variables) scripts for setting up Sunbird RC in different AWS accounts and Regions. AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) The AWS CLI needs to be configured with the AWS account. No CIDR 10.20.0.0/16 16 VPC CIDR block.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

MARCH 13, 2025

When you take money out or put money into your bank account, your account balance adjusts accordingly. For the federal government, the U.S. General Fund performs a similar functiontracking cash activity for all federal entities. Balancing Americas.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

Steps for manual set up of a landing zone on AWS A landing zone is an AWS solution that enables organizations to set up a secure and scalable multi-account AWS environment. Prepare your AWS accounts – Prepare your AWS accounts by creating the necessary accounts and configuring the required settings.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Log aggregation strategies You can send logs to CLAW from each individual AWS account or a central log aggregation point. If you are currently using a solution like AWS Control Tower , your log data for services like AWS CloudTrail or Amazon GuardDuty are already being sent to the log archive account, as shown in Figure 1.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 30, 2024

With LZA, you can better manage and govern your multi-account environments that have highly regulated workloads such as those in the public sector. The major components are the management account pipeline resources, the log archive account centralized logging resources, and your workload accounts.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2025

The Government Accountability Office reported that 20 of 23 agencies surveyed have about 1,200 current and planned AI cases specific challenges or opportunities that AI may solve. Federal civilian agencies understand that artificial intelligence will be increasingly useful in streamlining and automating complex workloads.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Phase two of the one-ID plan involves consolidating existing duplicate accounts, an optional process for users with select applications initially. The New York Office of IT Services is in the second phase of implementing NY.gov ID+, a single, verified login across state government to simplify how residents access services.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2024

If there was ever any doubt that agencies are prime targets for cyberattacks, a June 2024 Government Accountability Office report certainly sets the record straight. Urgent Action Needed,” the GAO’s dispatch to Congress begins. Risks to our nation’s essential technology systems are increasing.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

These templates are deployed across AWS workload accounts, the security account (capture memory, artifacts), and the forensic account (investigate and analyze). Analyze – Securely snapshot and share the volumes associated with the Amazon EC2 instance for investigation in the forensic account.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is scalable and secure. Using LZA on AWS, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. What is a landing zone?

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 13, 2023

Agencies are beginning their journey to the cloud,” Foster says, “so we’re looking at our overall data protection strategy to account for that. “It’s bread-and-butter IT,” says DCS Executive Director James Foster. But we’ll be in a hybrid state for quite some time.” In state IT, there are few things less sexy…

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

After consulting with their AWS account team, IT, and business stakeholders, the COO approves the following expected business outcomes after the implementation of the new generative AI solution. Given their limited qualified workforce, examiners can only thoroughly review a small percentage of documentation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 6, 2025

A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is scalable and secure. Using LZA on AWS, customers with highly regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Implementing the required controls for AWS Marketplace under the Navy BPA Navy commands can now use AWS Marketplace from their AWS account IDs, by following the procedures in the DoN ESL Ordering Guide for AWS. Companies improve their vendor onboarding processes, reducing the effort required to onboard a new vendor by as much as 75 percent.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

After you submit the form, we will contact the primary account owner within two business days. If you are unsure who the primary account owner is, contact your AWS account team. To learn more about AWS Modular Data Center , contact your AWS account representative.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

Parameters: Fault injection type: CPU Stress Fault injection attributes: cluster name, service name, load amount, duration, account number Parameters: Fault injection type: memory stress Fault Injection attributes: cluster name, service name, load amount, duration, account number In Figure 3 we show how the experiment is run.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

In addition to the IT team, health and human services subject matter experts, the Amazon Managed Services team, and the AWS account team helped the department with EPS design and deployment in the AWS Cloud. As a compliment to AWS Organizations, a landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is scalable and secure.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Follow us on X, formerly known as Twitter, at @StateTech and the official conference Twitter account, @NASCIO. Keep this page bookmarked for our coverage of the NASCIO 2024 Annual conference. Join the conversation using the hashtag #NASCIO24.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

To create an account, select Create a DIEM account. Once you’ve been granted access, you will receive a notification that your account has been authorized to access the DIEM API. You must update Secrets Manager with your DIEM credentials so the solution can retrieve DIEM data into your AWS account.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 15, 2024

To deploy the described pipeline you will need: Access to an AWS account with sufficient permissions to use AWS Ground Station; The guide in the repository uses the JPSS-1 craft as an example, so you must have it onboarded into your AWS account. You can also get JPSS-1 onboarded to your account for the CPE public beta.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 17, 2024

This initiates an automated process where AWS Lambda functions and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics facilitate the sharing of these templates with AWS accounts owned by delivery teams. The process enhances review efficiency across accounts by automating milestone setting and workload updates.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Users often take matters into their own hands by using the same passwords at work that they use for their personal accounts — which may or may not be compromised — or by falling back on simple, easy-to-remember phrases and numerical combinations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

If you are an AWS Partner interested in accelerating your generative AI journey in public sector, please speak to your AWS Partner Account Manager or contact us to learn more about the Generative AI TTM and how your organization can get involved. I hope these examples provide you with inspiration as you plan your generative AI roadmap.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

AWS Control Tower streamlines multi-account setups to onboard multiple researchers to a cloud platform quicklyin compliance with necessary regulations for every account in the environment. However, researchers must still follow best practices to maintain data security, such as avoiding identifiable names for storage buckets.

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OpenGov

MARCH 24, 2025

Every dollar spent must be accounted for, justified, and optimized for maximum impact. Public sector leaders are no strangers to financial scrutiny. Yet, many agencies still rely on outdated procurement […] The post Spend Control 2.0: Moving Beyond Requisitions for Modern Financial Management appeared first on OpenGov.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Improvements will support technical transfer from PNNL AWS accounts to sponsor-owned accounts when required. What’s next for Aether The Aether team plans to continue abstracting the overall Aether framework and specific risk-decision modules, striving towards a more turn-key solution.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

Security and compliance: AWS supports security-sensitive standards like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) , the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) , and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-171 compliance requirements.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Follow us on X, formerly known as Twitter, at @StateTech and the official conference Twitter account, @NASCIO. Keep this page bookmarked for our coverage of the NASCIO 2024 Annual conference. Join the conversation using the hashtag #NASCIO24.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Follow us on X, formerly known as Twitter, at @StateTech and the official conference Twitter account, @NASCIO. Keep this page bookmarked for our coverage of the NASCIO 2024 Annual conference. Join the conversation using the hashtag #NASCIO24.

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