Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

While this connectivity enables business operations from anywhere, this increased use of connected platforms presents increased risks. They often include weak points such as admin accounts with insecure passwords or come without multi-factor authentication enabled. All user accounts should be protected with multi-factor authentication.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2024

This post highlights how Amazon Web Services (AWS) secure communication service AWS Wickr integrates with the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) to enhance the efficiency of emergency response with a user-friendly, map-based solution that expands the common operating picture and strengthens cross-team collaboration.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

As customers move more data to the cloud, it becomes increasingly important to take necessary precautions and measures to prevent sensitive information from unauthorized access or use. Prepare your AWS accounts – Prepare your AWS accounts by creating the necessary accounts and configuring the required settings.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

They’re a highly effective method used by cybercriminals to trick people into revealing sensitive information such as login credentials, credit card details, and personal identification. The common factor in all phishing attacks is the intent to deceive people into disclosing personal information. How can I protect myself?

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Data resilience is critical to smooth operations at your agency. With this information, agencies will be able to choose the best solutions that map to those criteria and apply the right policies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Atlas One Austin, TX Atlas One is revolutionizing public safety communications by crowdsourcing anonymous tips, evidence, and information in local neighborhoods and communities, and automating time-consuming back-office tasks. eHawk Lees Summit, MO eHawk is a criminal justice technology company driven by its innovative RePath platform.

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GovLoop

MARCH 22, 2023

Intelligent data management helps organizations enhance their public-facing services, while improving their backend operations, Breakiron said. And directly associated, Breakiron said, is accessibility, knowing how the agency organizes and uses its information, and what the data’s condition is. “We

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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.” Cunningham adds that proper training for system operators “must cover not only system operation but also legal and ethical considerations.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

CentralSquare’s CAD service keeps first responders connected during emergencies When emergencies happen, quick access to critical information is paramount. CentralSquare’s cloud-based CAD and RMS services, powered by AWS, help dispatchers and responders quickly access and share real-time information during high-pressure situations.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MAY 31, 2024

As a business leader, you know the value of having access to the right information at the right time. Azure Cognitive Search is a cloud search service that can index, understand, and retrieve the right information across your enterprise content. by bringing systems online to improve efficiency and operational performance.

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The CIO Council

JUNE 9, 2022

Data enables an enterprise view, provides better insights to agencies’ modernization journeys, and optimizes strategic investment decisions through the Information Technology Oversight and Reform (ITOR) account, Technology Modernization Fund (TMF), and Federal Citizen Services Fund (FCSF). We take this responsibility seriously.

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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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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 16, 2024

However, with online crime totalling $8tn globally, the system seems broken In the UK, fraud is the most experienced crime, accounting for 40% of all crimes. Sapphire is a UK-owned and operated cyber security company. The Internet offers many advantages. The true number of such incidents is much higher. International.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 30, 2024

By utilizing the LZA and CID together, you can streamline the deployment process, ensure compliance with best practices, and gain valuable insights into your cloud environment, ultimately leading to improved operational efficiency, enhanced security, and better-informed decision-making. An architectural diagram of the LZA.

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GovLoop

MAY 25, 2023

In February 2023, for example, the Defense Department’s inspector general found that “DoD personnel are downloading mobile applications to their DoD mobile devices that could pose operational and cybersecurity risks to DoD information and information systems.” But recent media reports suggest the deadline might be elusive.

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Partnership for Public Service

JUNE 5, 2024

Federal communicators play a vital role in delivering accurate and meaningful information to the public, stakeholders and decision-makers. I took part in the Partnership’s data literacy training, “Insightful Governance: Data Literacy for Government Leaders, ” and I found it to be informative and useful.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 9, 2023

In this walkthrough, learn how to extract, analyze, and interpret relevant information from paper-based Medicaid claims forms. Users can automate document processing and action on the extracted information. The response to the asynchronous operation is a job identifier (JobId). An AWS account 2. AWS Lake Formation b.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

An interview with Marty Sullivan, Director of the Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts, and Tim Holthoff, Director of the Arkansas Court Information Systems Division Arkansas has long been a national leader in providing public access to court information. That wastes time and effort and can lead to arrest warrants.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For the public sector, agencies (or companies) are typically managed centrally by the State, City, or County’s central IT team: Figure 1 The operations or central IT team manages the tenant on behalf of the hosted agencies. Figure 8 Select all Exchange, OneDrive accounts and Teams and click Next. Select the admin units “ DOH Org ”.

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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. Are these controls being performed and operating as intended to detect or prevent the risk?

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Azure Commercial and Azure Government each have a Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO/PA) from the FedRAMP Program Management Office (PMO). For more information, please see the section below FedRAMP in GCC. Controlled Unclassified Information). The PMO is the primary governance and decision-making body for FedRAMP.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 22, 2024

Cloud computing is pivotal to allow the federal government to gain operational efficiencies and drive innovation securely and cost efficiently. The AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West) Regions are operated exclusively by US citizens who work within US territory.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 8, 2024

The NHS software provider Advanced Computer Software Group is facing a substantial fine of £6 million following a cyber attack in August 2022 The breach compromised the personal data of nearly 83,000 individuals, including sensitive medical records, prompting an investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

This targeted approach offers clearer accountability, enhanced transparency, simplified risk assessment, and focused testing procedures. Privacy by design ensures that good privacy practices are built into your information systems, business processes, products, and services.

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GovLoop

JUNE 30, 2023

There are a lot of points of entry now,” said Raghurama Pantula, Director of Information Security for Karsun Solutions, a modernization company that applies innovative approaches to help achieve agency missions. “So, So, there’s a high residual risk.”

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Microsoft Public Sector

AUGUST 20, 2024

Data Handling and Privacy: Copilot operates within your Microsoft 365 GCC tenant compliance boundary, ensuring that sensitive information remains protected and that all AI-driven processes are conducted securely. This is required to help protect US government sensitive information which should not leave the GCC compliance boundary.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 25, 2024

He adds that cyber mischief today can be lethal very quickly to government IT operations: “These modern kill chain attacks are quick and highly effective, accelerating the timeline for ransomware and other cyberattacks from months to minutes.” He notes that a ransomware attack on local government can often be overlooked.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Elham Tabassi, Chief of Staff, Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S., Even defining what AI trustworthiness looks like has been a challenge. That’s an important start. But there is an urgent need for clear specifications (i.e.,

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Google Public Sector

MAY 9, 2023

It can be difficult to gather insights across the disparate sources, let alone be fast enough to inform operational decisions. Traditionally, agencies rely on yearly reporting to understand the state of their operations, but this limits their ability to act quickly on emerging problems.

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Microsoft Public Sector

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Pursuant to Section 8 of Executive Order (EO) 14028 , "Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity", Federal Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) aim to comply with the U.S.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

This is often through phishing attacks, where individuals are targeted with fraudulent communication that tricks them into clicking bad links, handing over sensitive information, or installing malware. Phishing emails sent to these accounts can be extremely convincing. These attacks are easily preventable. DDoS Attack.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 12, 2023

In England and Wales, cyber-related fraud incidents accounted for 61% of all fraud cases last year. This information overload can cause individuals to operate on autopilot, leading to a lack of critical thinking and making them vulnerable to fraudsters’ frauds. trillion for the global economy by 2025.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

In addition to the IT team, health and human services subject matter experts, the Amazon Managed Services team, and the AWS account team helped the department with EPS design and deployment in the AWS Cloud. As a compliment to AWS Organizations, a landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is scalable and secure.

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GovLoop

MAY 8, 2023

Agencies deprived of strong, plentiful information can struggle with employee hiring and retention, logistical support of core initiatives, and improper financial payments, he said. According to Woestman, they strengthen operational intelligence so government can respond when, where, and how it needs to.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2024

Airports are mini cities that at any one time serve and support thousands of people who need services to keep them informed, comfortable, and safe. Data integration tools will lead to smarter planning The first step is to join up MAG systems and integrate data silos on-the-day operations to optimize staff planning.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Schools can leverage Amazon Q to have conversations with parents and students, solve problems, generate content, and take actions using data from their own information repositories and systems. QnAIntent (preview) can be used to securely connect FMs to school data systems for RAG so chatbots can provide student-relevant information.

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