American City & Country

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Without robust policies helping to enforce, guide and limit the use of p-cards with clear consequences for violation, localities cannot hold individuals accountable and safeguard taxpayer dollars from potential inappropriate use. Shannon Castillo , MA, CFE, is a consulting manager within the audit and assurance department in the Columbia, Md.,

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Microsoft Public Sector

MAY 31, 2024

Whether you need to make strategic decisions, solve problems, or answer customer queries, you want to leverage the knowledge that is stored in your documents and databases. In this blog post, we will show you how you can use Azure OpenAI and Cognitive Search to create chat bots that can answer challenging questions from your documents.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The post also shows how these previous automation measures can be applied across accounts with AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower. Doing so allows your organization to: Consistently implement security and compliance across different environments, Regions, and accounts, and reduce the risk of human error.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Access to key documentation is both a struggle and a necessity for vulnerable and at-risk communities. For the unhoused, being ‘document ready’ is essential to avoid delays or denial of access to benefits and services they need. Without proper documentation, unhoused individuals face overwhelming barriers to stability and opportunity.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 19, 2024

For instance, it is well-documented that social media can exacerbate mental health problems. Consider doing the following things for yourself: Unfollow any accounts that evoke negative feelings in you. It’s a day, celebrated on August 21, when we think about our online behavior and make proactive changes, to improve our well-being.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

APRIL 8, 2024

Leicester City Council has fallen victim to a recent cyberattack, leaving its phone and computer systems disabled since March 7th The attack, claimed by a group known as INC Ransom, has socked the council and its residents, with about 25 documents already posted online by the attackers.

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

A joint inquiry by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology into a Russian hacking team’s attempts to target at least three of the Department of Energy’s National Laboratories serves as a reminder that spear-phishing campaigns remain an ever-present threat to agencies.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

For example, an automation could enter invoices into the accounting system rather than people typing them in by hand. Because digital records often contain multiple copies of documents, including outdated versions, Barker estimates that only about half that data is unique. How do I digitize them?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Healthcare practitioners rely on specialized knowledge such as publications in medical research, caregiving techniques, treatment plans, and policy documents. In the US, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) regulates the processing, maintenance, and storage of protected health information.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

In addition, because data is downlinked to or uplinked from your AWS account, you can directly take advantage of the array of AWS services, which provide a multitude of methods to cost-effectively store, process, or disseminate this data. AWS CUR publishes billing information for the account to an S3 bucket in the central Region.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

From recorded testimonies to jail cell conversations, audiovisual files can play an important role in accurately documenting evidence that can make or break a case. The user identifies specific words of interest to be highlighted in the document and initiates the transcription process.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With this solution, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. Review the solution documentation and baseline architecture First, read through the LZA solution overview and LZA operations guidance.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

These systems also became integral to managing aspects such as business processes, security protocols, and legislative changes, often without comprehensive documentation. In the 1980s and 1990s, a lack of appropriate IT solutions meant they developed bespoke software and systems on mainframe platforms to manage their core business.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

For example, tax revenue accounting and return processing modules would run on the same tightly coupled infrastructure despite minimal overlap in business and process functionality. Amazon Textract is an ML service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned or electronic documents.

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Microsoft Public Sector

AUGUST 20, 2024

Documentation on admin controls will be provided by GA. M365 App copilots (Word, Excel, PowerPoint): Embedded within your favorite productivity apps, these intelligent assistants help you craft documents, analyze data, and create presentations faster and with greater precision. an individual has access to.

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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 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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AccessE11

APRIL 27, 2023

To find the pertinent information, staff must carefully sift through the vast amount of documentation and data, further complicating the task. It empowers citizens to access public records and ensures accountability from their government. This efficient tracking and documentation method ensures that every request is accounted for.

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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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Government Technology Insider

OCTOBER 22, 2024

I also introduced a revolutionary framework called Results-Based Accountability (RBA), which offers organizations a practical roadmap to improve societal outcomes by aligning their efforts with shared results and specific, data-driven indicators. If they have never had to do it, why change?

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iGrantWriters

JUNE 27, 2023

This research will contribute to informed decision-making, accountability, and consultation with American Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian Organizations. The research will also support the U.S. Department of the Interior in locating relevant records related to the Federal Indian boarding school system.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Maria spends hours reading through information on websites and reviewing publicly available documents to understand the benefits she may be eligible for and the application process. Additionally, she must provide various proof documents, such as pay stubs, bills, and identification, which may not be readily available or easily accessible.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 19, 2024

The AI Act primarily targets high-risk AI systems like algorithmic credit rating tools and medical software, imposing stringent requirements to ensure fairness, transparency, and accountability.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Implications for businesses and consumers AI-enabled businesses must now navigate a compliance landscape that demands transparency, accountability, and risk management. These include providing comprehensive technical documentation, disclosing training data summaries, and implementing robust cybersecurity measures.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Documentation on admin controls will be provided by GA. Microsoft 365 App Copilots (Word, Excel, PowerPoint): Embedded within your favorite productivity apps, these intelligent assistants help you craft documents, analyze data, and create presentations faster and with greater precision. an individual has access to.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Some US federal agencies and those who collaborate with them must support an automated, secure, and scalable multi-account cloud environment that meets Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) and Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) standards. Customers that need to align with CMMC 2.0 For example, CMMC 2.0

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 10, 2021

A Slab account is free for up to 10 users. Slab also offers discounts for nonprofits and educational institutions (to receive the discount, first create a free account, then contact Slab to request). If you want to share content beyond your organization, you can also make individual posts public. Business ($12.50 user/mo.), user/mo.),

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

The team carefully considered execution methods to prevent unintended disruptions, including options like a sidecar or using AWS Systems Manager documents to accomplish experiments with actions that are not natively supported by the service today. In parallel, FIS runs the Systems Manager document for CPU/memory stress.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Imagine working on sensitive documents in a public space, only to have prying eyes catch a glimpse of confidential information. The growing need for on-screen privacy The public sector handles a vast amount of sensitive information, ranging from personal data to classified documents.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

Do before March 13: In your AWS account, identify your existing Wideband DigIF stacks which you want to have operational after March 28, and collect AWS CloudFormation templates for them. Please contact your AWS account team in case the contact doesn’t work as expected. See the documentation about the Data Delivery Key.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Alternatively, you can access the APIs directly inside of your account, if you are building your application directly on top of AWS HealthLake. Data normalization, information extraction, and storage Store FHIR data in AWS HealthLake and non-FHIR data like large documents or public data sets in Amazon S3.

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Peak Proposals

MAY 13, 2021

Introduction to Content Libraries A content library is a storage site where you save different types of content, including templates, excerpts from documents such as proposals and reports, and even audio and video clips. Nonprofits frequently collect and reuse boilerplate that addresses typical proposal requirements.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Good council, and it set us to thinking about the difficulties we confront on a regular basis hunting for the date on many of the documents we use as sources. He wrote “Always find the effective date of a new rule or law. It may not be when you expect.” At least with new laws, as our friend mentioned, this is findable information.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 14, 2023

It turns out the lady's documents they found (birth certificate, etc.) were used to open credit card accounts etc. Second, when they got home, all the lights were on, the house was trashed and burgled, and their second car was gone. Now the guy had an air tag in his car, and he tracked the car but the thieves got away.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

And then, of course, go through their entire website and probably have to create an account and do the contact form just to get some kind of recognition within 48-72 hours. Reeks notes that, “I would search for suppliers that could provide what we were looking for. It was really time consuming.”

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

When installed inside a mobile app at the point of action, such as login, purchase, or account creation, reCAPTCHA Enterprise can block fake users and bots while allowing legitimate users to proceed. reCAPTCHA Enterprise is Google’s online fraud detection service that leverages more than a decade of experience defending the internet.

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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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