AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Meet the cohort The startups were selected based on several factors including: the innovative and unique nature of each project, relevance to justice and public safety agencies, benefit the solution will add to the GovTech industry, the creative application of AWS technology, and the startups’ ability to deliver for identified constituent needs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Many public sector customers are interested in building secure, cost-effective, reliable, and highly performant applications. Building modern applications in AWS helps customers with increased innovation, speed, reliability, scalability, and security while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

Despite a common misconception about government, state agencies regularly innovate on behalf of their constituents. 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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Public health agencies know that modernizing their technology infrastructure is necessary to avoid disruptions to program operations and create new opportunities to serve their constituents. For example, a WIC program manager may be able to securely log into the WIC Management Information System (MIS) before seeing a WIC program beneficiary.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2024

There is no cost to attend; register now to secure your spot. The AWS IMAGINE conference is a no-cost way for Texas state leaders to earn CPE hours and gain valuable technology insights to support their teams and constituents. Read on for seven more reasons to attend—plus one special perk for Texan attendees.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 18, 2023

With improved data insights, nonprofits can personalize communications with constituents, strengthen donor relationships, enhance operational efficiencies, and more. Examples include storing constituent profile information, whether or not a donor attended a fundraising event, communication preferences, and donation records.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is helping leading tax authorities around the world to migrate and modernize their mission critical tax systems in the cloud, allowing them to achieve better service reliability, scalability, and security, while paving the way for new and innovative business functionality. Find the solution on GitHub.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

United States federal agencies, such as the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Transportation Security Administration (TSA), are increasing their emphasis on cybersecurity. Workloads often have distinct security profiles that require separate control policies and mechanisms.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The rise in cybersecurity threats means city, county, and education leaders must consider how best to protect constituent and student data, financial information, services, and more. Furthermore, K12 IT teams are understaffed and typically lack a dedicated security officer and Security Operations Center.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Global Security and Compliance Acceleration Program (formerly ATO on AWS) supporting eight countries globally. The Global Security and Compliance Acceleration (GSCA) program, formerly known as ATO on AWS, is expanding globally to support localized security and compliance needs. Building these systems requires energy.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Here are a few best practices for data resilience to help your agency bounce back after an attack: Take Account of the Entire Application: Modern applications consist of many parts and can’t function effectively unless those parts and processes are all present and accounted for. Favorite

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GovLoop

JUNE 10, 2024

Officials tasked with securing elections face a complex challenge. They need to build a voter registration database, secure the voting machines, and then tally votes accurately — all in the face of potential disruptions from malicious actors, foreign and domestic. It’s about saying, ‘Here’s what are we doing to secure your elections.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Gain insights from real-world examples and uncover the boundless potential to drive change and forge a brighter future for citizens, constituents, students, service members, patients, and beyond. Don’t miss out – consult your AWS account representative for the can’t-miss meetup opportunities to expand your circle.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

You can expect to learn about cloud practitioner and technical essentials, delivering innovation, and creating a security compliant cloud environment. When you’re not in a session, utilize the co-working space or meet with your AWS account team to brainstorm implementation of what you learned. The AWS Cloud Journey.

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Government Technology Insider

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The mass adoption of cloud solutions by government agencies has improved cost management and service delivery but has brought with it some significant security challenges. Implementing Zero Trust has enabled NJJ to secure employees from anywhere, expand service capabilities, and build a more resilient security posture.

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Google Public Sector

JUNE 25, 2024

We'll explore the ways our AI solutions are adaptive, secure, responsible, and intelligent – enabling agencies to serve constituents better than ever before. The White House is championing this transformation while emphasizing the need for transparency and accountability in how AI is leveraged.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

To further support this initiative, Healey secured funding from her organization to create the role of Director of Training and Change Management in her department, which helped make cloud and digital skills training a priority. Though women account for 60% of the government workforce, they aren’t well-represented within government IT.

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GovLoop

MAY 26, 2023

By definition, data ethics refers to the norms of behavior that promote appropriate judgments and accountability when acquiring, managing or using data. Privacy: Data should be secured safely to ensure that no personal identifying info runs the risk of identification of individuals or groups.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Key topics covered include addressing concerns around data sovereignty, security, lock-in risks and budget control while highlighting AWS capabilities and commitments in these areas. Advancing data governance and stewardship practices to build trust and enable secure data sharing between departments, including safeguarding privacy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

The department used AMS to modernize legacy technology onto a hosted platform that meets rigorous security guidelines and adds reliability to an environment where speed and availability are critical. Security was paramount to making sure that the cloud environment and integrated application platform met stringent U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Deep learning image analysis and high-performant yet cost-effective architectures on Amazon Web Services (AWS) can modernize constituent experiences and improve digital interactions with government. For this walkthrough, you must have the following prerequisites: An AWS account. Deploy the SAM template to your account.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

API-driven data pipelines consolidate business data which enables public sector organizations to offer more personalized experiences for constituents, enrich research publications, improve operations to reduce the burden on internal teams, and more.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Solution deployment Prerequisites For this walkthrough, you must have the following prerequisites: An AWS account AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) command line interface (CLI) installed and set up with credentials Python 3.9 Deploy the SAM template to your account. You only need a standard license to support this solution.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Google Public Sector is committed to helping advance the missions of education and government agencies through cloud technology in a secure and responsible way. Google Public Sector is investing in partner solution enablement to better serve public sector customers together.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

FedRAMP is a US government-wide program that promotes the adoption of secure cloud services across the federal government by providing a standardized approach to security and risk assessment, and continuous monitoring for cloud technologies and federal agencies.

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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).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

These technologies enable transportation and other government agencies to enhance the experience of constituents and provide cost-effective transportation and mobility solutions. Upload the dataset to the S3 bucket in your AWS account and enable access to the bucket for SageMaker Canvas. Choose Create.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

“When your identity infrastructure is simple, secure and reliable, your overall service quality improves dramatically.”. It might seem counterintuitive,” Scontras said, “because traditionally strong security controls meant more end user friction. Scontras said two specific capabilities have the biggest impact. Get the guide.

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Government Technology Insider

MAY 16, 2024

When state and local agencies dive into the world of application development, they’re not merely coding – they’re crafting constituent experiences. However, to transform government service delivery from outdated legacy methods, it’s important to use technology that optimizes security, experiences, and speed of delivery.

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Government Technology Insider

MAY 21, 2024

In an interview with Government Technology Insider, Tom Wiri , Senior Account Executive at Tricentis, discussed some of the common challenges state CIOs face when trying to push out modernized applications. Modernization is a big initiative, but manual app testing is always the bottleneck,” Wiri said.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 31, 2023

All in all, outdated technology can cause your organization an endless number of potential problems. Join us Wednesday, Feb. 15 from 12-2 p.m. ET/9-11 a.m. PT for our mini virtual summit, as government leaders and industry experts share their insights on how to harness the power of tech and process transformation to make your job easier.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 19, 2023

An interview with Kelly McCormick, Federal Account Executive, and Elijio Martinez, Industry Principal for Government, Zoom With the rise of the remote and hybrid workforce, government agencies need to rethink the employee experience. Government efforts “need to hone in on accessibility for the constituents,” said Zoom’s Elijio Martinez.

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GovLoop

MARCH 5, 2024

It’s a matter of if, not when,” said Chris Sprague, Principal Technologist with Pure Storage, which delivers forward-thinking security and data protection via a cloud experience. With SafeMode, an administrator cannot delete snapshots; backups are safe even if hackers invade an administrator account.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 31, 2023

According to NIST, other attributes of trustworthy AI include: Privacy Reliability Robustness Safety Security/resilience Fairness Transparency Positive social impact How Could AI Change Things for the Better? That’s the thing: Freed of grunt work, they have more bandwidth for listening to constituents and solving their problems.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Constituent trust was a concern as you prepared to launch, because it is difficult for agencies to regain trust once they’ve lost it, and you needed to minimize uncertainty and ensure that agency staff were on board and well-equipped. Nagesh Rao, Chief Information Officer at the Bureau of Industry and Security in the U.S.

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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

As the privacy landscape continues to evolve, the way that government organizations respond to privacy regulations will be critical to maintaining their privacy posture and responding to constituent requests. Security/Identity. Announcing the retirement of ‘Office 365 Security and Compliance Center’ (protection.office.com) - GCC.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In critical moments when every second counts, justice and public safety ( JPS ) agencies need technology solutions that are secure, reliable, and fast. To power these essential solutions—and move agencies to the cloud securely, compliantly, and fast—CentralSquare exclusively builds on AWS infrastructure.

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