AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This secure and fully managed playground allows users to create customized AI assistants (Apps) and enhance LLM interactions by incorporating their organization’s proprietary data and documentation. The major components are an AWS account, AWS IAM Identity Center, and Amazon Bedrock.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

MARCH 7, 2023

Current and retired federal employees have recently reported widespread problems accessing their retirement savings and account information through the federal retirement system known as the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). Congress asked GAO to examine.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) employs project management principles to deliver public sector cloud outcomes. This blog post highlights project management tools, references, and AWS Management Console tips that give public sector customers better project visibility, automate task management, and help accelerate project outcomes.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 24, 2022

As data grows exponentially, however, four key trends will inform and impact the government’s control and usage of their data: Government data is exploding, which puts the onus on improved data management. Government data is maintained through protective security policies and risk management centrally and locally. Keeping data secure.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MARCH 5, 2024

Account Management It is obviously a great starting point to “a. Define the types of system accounts allowed and prohibited” to access systems that hold Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) or other sensitive information. Monitor(ing) the use of system accounts.” They can also take the next steps to “f.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

What do Amazon Web Services (AWS) public sector customers need to know about the State Risk and Authorization Management Program ( StateRAMP) and how can you use AWS to help meeting StateRAMP requirements? What is StateRAMP? Using a conformance pack can take the guess work out of mapping controls to AWS features and services.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Cloud security posture management offers a lifeline to agencies struggling to implement cyber best practices, such as continuous monitoring, when going multicloud. CSPM can…

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Many organizations within state and local government (SLG) and education must build digital environments and services that meet a variety of dynamic security and compliance considerations, such as StateRAMP and Federal Information Security Management Act ( FISMA ). Customers can logically group accounts together in OU.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The federal government manages around 640 million acres, or about 28% of all land across the United States. But increasingly, federal agencies are grappling with how best to manage public lands in the face of challenges posed by more frequent and.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The main difference, according to Dallas Breckon, federal executive account manager at CDW, is that these challenges go underreported. Over the past decade, Native American tribes and tribal enterprises have faced many of the same cybersecurity challenges as other organizations in both public and private sectors.

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Peak Proposals

MAY 22, 2022

Managing each of these stages requires a system of some kind and one or more tools to save content and permit collaborative development of the proposal. tool that you can use to manage and write a grant proposal is Microsoft OneNote. After logging into your microsoft account, click on the waffle icon in the upper left.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Topics include AWS Audit Manager , AWS Config , AWS Systems Manager , and AWS Security Hub. The post also shows how these previous automation measures can be applied across accounts with AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower. Audit Manager then captures AWS Config evaluations as evidence for audits.

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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). AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) access to forensic GUI. The framework is deployed using a series of predefined AWS CloudFormation templates.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Data is a critical part of the new drug product life cycle management and journey. Data mesh to the rescue Data mesh is an architectural framework that enables organizations to redefine how they manage and utilize their data assets. By adopting a DaaP mindset, pharmaceutical companies can unlock a host of benefits.

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Super Library Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Francesca’s interest in managing the library’s TikTok began during her interview. “I I remember asking if Saline County Library (SCL) had a TikTok account,” she said. I usually post them when I have an idea, and I get inspiration from other library TikTok accounts. Their response was no. I try to post 3-5 times a week.”

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GCN

DECEMBER 12, 2023

COMMENTARY | Responsible data stewardship must take many factors into account including legal requirements, data governance, cybersecurity and user privacy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

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. Prepare your AWS accounts – Prepare your AWS accounts by creating the necessary accounts and configuring the required settings.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Managed by NCPS, CLAW collects and analyzes agency cloud security data and allows CISA analysts to provide security situational awareness and support to the agencies. Log aggregation strategies You can send logs to CLAW from each individual AWS account or a central log aggregation point.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Now more than ever, our customers require organizational agility to move fast with governance that AWS Marketplace provides,” said Matt Yanchyshyn, general manager of AWS Marketplace. Consumption based software utilization will leverage managed entitlements for AWS Marketplace.

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zencity

JULY 12, 2023

If you have an existing Instagram account, your username is reserved for you, but if you don’t, get on it sooner rather than later. To do this, either download Threads from your app store OR go to your Instagram account and find Threads in the ‘three lines’ menu on your profile to get started. Screenshots from city Threads accounts 4.

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Peak Proposals

MARCH 22, 2022

Managing each of these stages requires a system of some kind and one or more tools to save content and permit collaborative development of the proposal. tool that you can use to manage and write a grant proposal is Microsoft OneNote. While there are many tools to choose from, one readily accessible (and free!)

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Microsoft Public Sector

JUNE 6, 2023

Windows 365 Enterprise has been assessed by a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorized auditor to meet FedRAMP High requirements at data centers within the Continental US and has an agency authorization at FedRAMP Moderate. Please contact your Microsoft account representative for more information.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

When they buy technology, cities and counties will often face multiple issues, says Dean Cunningham , segment development manager, Public Safety at Axis Communications , a company that produces network cameras, access control systems, network audio devices and other IP networking solutions for physical security and video surveillance applications.

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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Technology lifecycle management for federal systems is complex, requiring IT leaders to account for a constellation of variables, including supply chains, funding streams from Congress, varying… One federal IT official recently told FedTech it is “almost like a game of whack-a-mole.”

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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

MAY 30, 2024

With LZA, you can better manage and govern your multi-account environments that have highly regulated workloads such as those in the public sector. The major components are the management account pipeline resources, the log archive account centralized logging resources, and your workload accounts.

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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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GovLoop

JANUARY 30, 2024

Many respondents offered their own major concerns: standardized organizational practices, unskillful management, “forever changing dialogue for processes,” lack of appreciation, lack of accountability, lack of support and recognition from supervisors, “too much work for the hours allotted,” lack of trust, and technology reluctance.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

What’s missing from current methods of managing flood risk? To understand how local governments can better manage flood risk, it is important to understand how this work is done at present. Solutions lie in community involvement The solutions to managing flooding effectively come in two aspects—human and technical.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This need aligns with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) M-24-10, which mandates the appointment of Chief AI Officers, the formation of agency AI governance boards, the development of compliance plans, and the creation of AI use case inventory. Specific sectors have additional regulatory requirements.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This function pulls authentication credentials for the UN DIEM data from AWS Secrets Manager , pulls the UN DIEM down using API calls, performs some deduplication, and saves the results in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). To create an account, select Create a DIEM account. Virginia) us-east-1 Region. Select Save.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Recent releases of powerful large language models demonstrate that AI technologies are advancing much faster than the standards, benchmarks, policy, governance, or accountability mechanisms necessary to keep them trustworthy. We did this as part of our work to develop the NIST Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0).

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GovLoop

MARCH 22, 2023

As Richard Breakiron, Commvault’s Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives for the Federal Sector, points out, agency and mission readiness and success are driven by “data readiness,” and today data is a “flow variable” and the challenge is managing the volume, velocity and variety of data for actionable insight.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

The team carefully considered execution methods to prevent unintended disruptions, including options like a sidecar or using AWS Systems Manager documents to accomplish experiments with actions that are not natively supported by the service today. In parallel, FIS runs the Systems Manager document for CPU/memory stress.

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 13, 2023

Oregon Data Center Services handles daily backups for roughly 4,000 state servers, a task made more manageable by a platform that allows its fellow agencies to do some of the work themselves, whether they’re operating applications on the DCS infrastructure or, eventually, in the cloud. But we’ll be in a hybrid state for quite some time.”

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Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Mherdad Didehbani, Federal Account Manager at LYME Technology Solutions, explained, “AI’s core value lies in its ability to determine patterns from vast amounts of data.” Only at the early stages of its development, AI public sector trends are paving the way for a bright and innovative future.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Here are a few best practices for data resilience to help your agency bounce back after an attack: Take Account of the Entire Application: Modern applications consist of many parts and can’t function effectively unless those parts and processes are all present and accounted for.

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