FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

Instead of confronting the challenge, many users rely on weak passwords and reuse them for multiple accounts. Passwords are hard to remember and even harder to change periodically, and it’s increasingly difficult to devise strong credentials. This makes it easy for cybercriminals to guess credentials or obtain them via phishing attacks.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

On July 11, the Partnership and Deloitte held a working session, “ERM to Drive Programmatic Success,” featuring Deidre Harrison, acting controller at the Office of Management and Budget, and Bob Westbrooks, executive director of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee. Employ a top-down and bottom-up approach. Prepare and monitor.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

We also provide tips for accelerating procurement and maintaining visibility over rapidly implemented workloads. The DHHS took an innovative approach to implement a solution rapidly. In this section, we explore how states can maintain visibility and oversight during rapid implementation.

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GCN

JULY 3, 2024

The federal AHEAD model aims to help participating states implement what’s called a total cost of care model, in which states take responsibility and accountability for health outcomes of their patients.

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

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

One of the onerous and time-consuming tasks for builders is to interpret and map these requirements before implementing them, which can affect their release cycle. 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.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

State CIOs have already implemented multiple use cases for artificial intelligence; others are exploring opportunities that can enhance citizen services, improve employee productivity and even save lives. Follow us on X, formerly known as Twitter, at @StateTech and the official conference Twitter account, @NASCIO.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Agencies don’t always implement their continuous monitoring plans because that would require a new philosophy toward cloud security, according to Dave Hinchman, director of IT and cyber at the Government Accountability Office.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 26, 2024

Cybercriminals saw opportunities to exploit the digital nature of these services, enabling them to hack accounts and access the financial information of vulnerable individuals. Criminals exploited their limited digital literacy to access their account information or impersonate them through online banking channels.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

GraphQL implementation options on AWS There are two ways to run GraphQL implementations on AWS. An AWS GovCloud (US) Create a GovCloud account if you do not already have one and log in. Note: An AWS GovCloud (US) account is recommended to follow along with the sample solution in this blog post.

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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. This blog post provides technical guidance for UK organisations to implement their landing zone in-line with guidance from the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) using the LZA.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 30, 2024

This post builds on the core concepts of LZA so a basic understanding of LZA is necessary to implement the solution. To learn about LZA, check out the AWS Solutions Library and Implementation Guide. Please follow the Implementation Guide to get started with LZA. This will be the configuration file used to deploy the CID.

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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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FedTech Magazine

APRIL 12, 2024

The federal government continues to take a cautious look at the potential of artificial intelligence; most AI projects remain in the planning phases, according to a Government Accountability Office report. AI has only become practical in the past few years, which makes it challenging to implement in government settings.

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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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FedTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2023

Agencies are implementing multifactor authentication as part of the federal push toward zero-trust architectures. Yet, things get complicated when agencies need to onboard contractors, who by some estimates account for up to 40 percent of the federal workforce.

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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. Applications like our Scorecard solution are designed for that exact purpose.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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. Phase two of the one-ID plan involves consolidating existing duplicate accounts, an optional process for users with select applications initially.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Transparency and accountability are crucial to maintaining public trust and require clear policies on surveillance use and data access.” “Local governments face issues that range from balancing public safety and individual privacy rights to managing vast amounts of data securely and efficiently.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This makes it much harder for cybercriminals to hack your accounts. Strong Passwords: Make sure your passwords are complex and unique for each account, and regularly changed. Using the same or similar password for multiple accounts makes you more susceptible to identity theft.

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Government Technology Insider

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Fortunately, there are data-driven frameworks like Result-Based Accountability (RBA) that help government agencies find ways to mitigate these challenges within the communities they serve. From institutional barriers that make it hard to implement changes quickly to a lack of consensus and competing interests.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This post will explore best practices for implementing GWLB to facilitate centralized traffic inspection for both east-west and north-south traffic flows. For customers preferring to use their firewalls for NAT capabilities, a two-arm architecture can be implemented. In this approach, traffic exits directly from the inspection VPC.

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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

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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GovPilot

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Each state is responsible for implementing specific measures to prepare local government officials for winter conditions in their environment. States expecting a snowy, cold winter need to account for winter community planning and consider ways to keep constituents safe, healthy, and warm.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The second post will provide step-by-step technical guidance on how to implement this reference architecture on AWS. For the implementation of EHDS, healthcare organizations will need secure, robust, scalable, and compliant technology solutions to build the underlying data platforms and meet EHDS requirements.

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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

JUNE 22, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud (US) operates within the United States, offering government customers and their partners the freedom to design and implement secure cloud solutions adhering to various compliance standards. This approach entails implementing an edge solution using AWS MDC. Deploy edge solutions using AWS MDC Figure 1.

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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.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Introduction This white paper explores the philosophy and implementation strategy of the Federal Responsible and Secure Artificial Intelligence (AI) Sandbox, an initiative aimed at promoting responsible and secure AI practices within federal government agencies. Specific sectors have additional regulatory requirements.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 22, 2024

The first thing to acknowledge is that those we are often requesting information from, whether you are an employee or consultant, is that the individuals are often primarily focused on the implementation of programs in service of the organization’s mission.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

The CMA is a no-cost assessment available through your AWS account team and is capable of providing a cloud service provider agnostic view of your enterprise. Careful analysis of the factors that drive value realization can accelerate the time-to-value of technology initiatives and uncover gaps in knowledge or implementation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

As Australia moves forward with its National framework for the assurance of artificial intelligence in government , Amazon Web Services (AWS) is committed to helping our customers implement AI solutions that align with Australia’s AI Ethics Principles. Each dimension is explored in depth in our responsible use of machine learning guide.

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GovLoop

JUNE 30, 2023

But legacy hardware and software, which abound in government agencies, can create a barrier to implementing zero trust. A service mesh approach, by performing tasks abstracted from existing applications, allows agencies to implement the principles of zero trust across the enterprise.

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Google Public Sector

JUNE 25, 2024

The White House is championing this transformation while emphasizing the need for transparency and accountability in how AI is leveraged. Accountability: Adherence to government standards and regulations. Security and privacy: Ensure robust data protection throughout the AI development and deployment lifecycle.

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