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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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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Microsoft Public Sector

MARCH 5, 2024

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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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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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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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

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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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 8, 2024

THe NHS cyber attack, August 2022 The attack carried out through a ransomware scheme, exploited a vulnerability in Advanced’s systems by accessing a customer account lacking multi-factor authentication (MFA). What does this mean for the stolen data?

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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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GovLoop

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Agencies need an approach to cybersecurity that takes into account the vulnerabilities of end users. One way to achieve this is through the implementation of an enterprise password management platform, a secure location in which credentials are stored and managed. Solution: Enterprise Password Management. Get the guide. Favorite.

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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

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

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Government Technology Insider sat down with Tom Wiri, Senior Account Executive and Blake Yanick, Regional Account Director at Tricentis, to discuss how state CIOs can leverage automation to overcome challenges and drive legacy modernization.

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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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Partnership for Public Service

APRIL 25, 2024

A recent GAO report , authored by Walsh, highlights the continued need for the effective and responsible implementation of AI across government. ERM offers existing risk governance structures that streamline accountability and transparency, and foster engagement, among key AI actors and oversight responsibilities.

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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

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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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

In this blog post we show how Pearson PLC , an AWS education technology (EdTech) customer, successfully implemented resilient architectures through chaos engineering using AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS). This required the implementation of safeguarding techniques, well-defined risk tolerance levels, and robust rollback mechanisms.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Projects use AWS CodeBuild and other services within AWS Developer Tools to implement a continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipeline and automatically build and deploy changes when updates are merged into development, staging, or main branches.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

While the importance of cyber security increases, many are still unaware of measures they can implement and actions they can take to mitigate risk, combat crime, and protect their future. They often include weak points such as admin accounts with insecure passwords or come without multi-factor authentication enabled. © Axel Bueckert.

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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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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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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Reference architecture for implementing a modern application on AWS GovCloud (US). 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.

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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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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 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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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

TMF is a call for proposals to help federal agencies implement President Biden’s Executive Order on the safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use of AI in the federal government. The potential of AI is tremendous, but it is important to take its potential risks into account.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 17, 2024

Implementing a scalable templating solution NHS England’s CCoE adopted a Well-Architected templating solution to enable a consistent review mechanism and adoption of best practices across delivery teams. Key components include central and workload accounts, AWS Step Functions, Lambda functions, EventBridge, Amazon SNS Topics, and CloudTrail.

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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

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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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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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Working with Accenture Federal Services under the Army Cloud Account Management Optimization contract and our implementation partner SADA, we’re excited to help the Army deploy a cloud-first collaboration solution, improving upon more traditional technologies with unparalleled security and versatility.

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