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Disaster response and risk management using PNNL’s Aether framework on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

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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Microsoft Copilot for Security and NIST 800-171: Access Control

Microsoft Public Sector

These publications are important because one of the primary requirements for CMMC is that organizations will need to implement most, if not all, of NIST 800-171r3’s controls for Level 2 certification. Account Management It is obviously a great starting point to “a. Monitor(ing) the use of system accounts.”

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Better Visibility and Control Through Zero Trust

GovLoop

For the Defense Department (DoD), implementing zero-trust cybersecurity principles are an absolute must to protect against vulnerabilities and to continuously monitor evolving threats. The DoD needs to ensure that their personnel are properly trained, since about a third of cyber-related threats come from the inside. ” Favorite

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Procurement purchasing card perils: Will you be the next headline?

American City & Country

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. If p-card audits are performed timely, consistently and independently, they are an efficient control to implement.

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How the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS supports NCSC cloud security guidance

AWS Public Sector Blog

By using the UK implementation guide for the LZA , UK customers can design environments that will help them to align to new NCSC guidance. A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is scalable and secure. What is a landing zone?

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Cloud incident response at UNSW with digital forensics powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

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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Smart, safe and sustainable cycling: how AI-powered insights will encourage the next generation

Open Access Government - Technology News

But with more of us joining cycle lanes, local authorities have had to invest in ways to make our cities and towns more cycle friendly and implement traffic monitoring solutions to aid this growth. With this, they can effectively plan, implement and monitor current and future schemes. Harnessing data to assess impact.