AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Characterizing disaster risk and developing strategies for resilience and response to natural event hazards is core to the mission of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The science of event simulation and emergency response is based broadly on physics and earth science for climate simulations.

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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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Microsoft Public Sector

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Alli Zanelotti - Federal Account Executive at AvePoint. In our #Microsoft365 Government Community Call for #GCC #GCCH #DOD we discuss the usual GOVCOM events, news, and roadmap updates. __. You can watch in the video below or follow the youtube link here. View more #M365 Government Community Call episodes here: [link] __.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

The Forensics Orchestrator deploys a mechanism using AWS services to orchestrate and automate key digital forensics processes and activities for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances in the event a potential security issue is detected. The framework is deployed using a series of predefined AWS CloudFormation templates.

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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

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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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Limiting an Attacker’s Mobility In the event an attacker gains entry to the network, the intruder’s ability to move about will be limited due to network segmentation. A zero-trust environment, however, could foil the attempt in a couple ways, including through multi-factor authentication. ” Favorite

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Partnership for Public Service

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Federal leaders who attended the Partnership for Public Service’s Excellence in Government Fellows 35th Anniversary Alumni Event explored how to responsibly use artificial intelligence to best serve the public—a top-of-mind topic for many in government today.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The static content of the SPA is hosted in an Amazon Simple Storage Service ( Amazon S3 ) bucket in an AWS account in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. To achieve low latency, use Amazon CloudFront in an AWS account in any commercial region. Access to an AWS account in US-East-1. Under Permissions , uncheck Block Public Access.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The resulting membership platform was built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using serverless technologies and event-driven architecture to help scale to meet demand, improve reliability, and reduce overall cost. Building an event-driven architecture for membership services on AWS Figure 1.

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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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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

No, you wake up thinking about how you’re going to get three kids to three different events on time, if your boss liked your presentation, or what you’re going to make for dinner. This makes it much harder for cybercriminals to hack your accounts. Consider using a reliable password manager to keep track of your credentials.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The hackathon is a satellite event of the biennial international scientific conference series, New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics ( NTTS ). They opted to build a cloud solution, which would let them increase or decrease the size and number of servers as needed during the event, saving energy and costs.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Even accounting for inflation, stock market volatility, political turmoil, and post-pandemic “revenge” spending, the largest transfer of wealth in American history is taking place daily. But not including essential preparations for planned giving could turn a generous gift into an accounting and programming nightmare for a nonprofit.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Jarrett State Cybersecurity Leadership Award — provided his firsthand experience and insights on the matter at this year’s NASCIO event. 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.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights Microsoft Modern Work, Security, and Surface Evangelist to Speak at Upcoming Cloud Security Event The Cloud Security and Compliance Series (CS2), Summit 7's bi-annual conference series, is excited to announce Rodel Alejo, Director, Partner GTM Strategy Modern Work, Security, Surface and SMB Leader, as a CS2 speaker.

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Our role allows us to attend industry events and speak with current customers to learn more about community engagement. Governments can foster trust by prioritizing inclusivity and demonstrating a commitment to addressing community needs through transparency, accountability, and ongoing dialogue.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Moreover, without access to audit events and alerts, agencies are limited on demonstrating the effectiveness of their data protection / data privacy program. without impacting other agencies/companies) Agency admins with granular user scopes can access dashboards to manage alerts and view audit events for ONLY their users.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Corporate stakeholders and workers alike should be accountable for information security. Also, the recovery process must be regularly tested to ensure full data restoration can be achieved in the event of a breach or mistake. Data recovery successes rely on quality backup strategy execution.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This annual event empowers customers and partners to rethink what’s possible for their mission, through the latest innovations in the cloud. Download the AWS Events app to either favorite or register for the sessions you’re interested in. Discover new ideas, build connections, and interact with cutting-edge technology.

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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. This event provides an opportunity for Accelerator participants to showcase their cloud-powered solutions to justice and public safety agency leaders.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

All certificate names must be correctly mapped onto the intended user account in Active Directory (AD). Namely, you take responsibility for the vulnerabilities that can arise from any unintentional mapping of the names in a certificate to multiple AD accounts. Track these events through Event ID 311.

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Super Library Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2023

The Steely Library Instagram account is a favorite of mine. Additionally, Instagram is where the majority of NKU’s other social media accounts are the most active.”. Steely and a handful of other NKU accounts have created a bit of an unofficial influencer circle. It truly felt meant to be.”.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2023

More importantly, this critical health information can be lifesaving, particularly during traumatic health events. LSI set out to develop an IoMT solution with the capability to detect and prevent critical health events. These devices can help enhance healthcare efficiency, lower costs, and provide better health outcomes.

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Super Library Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I look at our social media accounts as an avenue for advertising, so most of our posts are program and event promotion and photos, and promotion of our eMedia and materials.” “I post to Facebook and Instagram, typically 5 – 10 posts per week just depending on what we have going on, usually no more than 1 or 2 posts per day.

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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 4, 2023

Users can deploy the proof-of-concept in their own AWS accounts, and use it as a baseline for the implementation of ground segment architectures to communicate with their own satellites. A few minutes before the contact, the AWS Ground Station emits a prepass event. The prepass event triggers an AWS Lambda function.

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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. Organisations should consider enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) to protect these highly privileged accounts. userIdentity.userName = "breakGlassUser0*") && ($.userIdentity.invokedBy

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The US Office of Management and Budget published M-21-31 , a memorandum for federal government agencies to define event logging requirements related to cybersecurity incidents. The memorandum defines various event logging (EL) tiers and the log data that must be captured for various log categories. AWS Security Hub.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Public sector organizations often use third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) for project management, human resources, event registration, web analytics, donor management, marketing, and more. Note that deploying these resources into your AWS account incurs charges. Select members-test-event from the event name dropdown.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

GuardDuty analyzes event details from VPC flow logs, DNS logs, and AWS CloudTrail without any additional infrastructure to provision. You get a comprehensive view of your high-priority security alerts and security posture across all of your AWS accounts. Create Amazon EventBridge Rule with Event Pattern and Target.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

AWS CloudTrail captures the change and triggers an EventBridge event with a Lambda function as the target. This action triggers a CloudTrail event, which triggers an EventBridge event. Figure 3 shows the output of the CloudFormation events after the deployment. Deploy the solution 1.

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GovLoop

MARCH 22, 2023

Colorado’s chief information officer (CIO) team relied on Commvault for its intelligent data management tools, in which Commvault’s automated features identified and quarantined several new, unknown user accounts. The CIO team was alerted to the event by Commvault’s findings and was able to stop the attack.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

But outdated legacy systems hold these agencies back: they’re clunky, slow to innovate, and vulnerable to cyber-attacks, weather events, and other disasters. The CAD system also automatically synchronizes with their RMS solution, a repository of event data, including video and sensor data from on-site responders.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Event-driven architecture has gained significant traction in the public sector. Event-driven architecture facilitates efficient resource use by triggering actions only when specific events occur. An example event could be a student submitting a college application or a government agency approving a permit.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Amazon EventBridge now supports partner integrations with Adobe and Stripe Amazon EventBridge is a serverless integration service that enables you to create highly scalable event-driven applications by routing events between your own applications, third-party software as a service (SaaS) applications, and AWS services.

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