AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This post explains how you can use AWS tools and services to secure and automate compliance in your environment. Topics include AWS Audit Manager , AWS Config , AWS Systems Manager , and AWS Security Hub. Why automate security and compliance There are several reasons to automate security and compliance.

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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. Given the vast number of cyber-enabled frauds in the UK, significant changes in the approach to cyber security are necessary to achieve this goal.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has collaborated with the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to tailor advice on how UK public sector customers can use the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) to help meet the NCSC’s guidance on “ using cloud services securely.”

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Today, government IT teams find themselves navigating a labyrinth of security controls, compliance requirements, and risk management practices. As a result, by embracing a multi-cloud strategy, government agencies must also be prepared to address a series of operational and security challenges.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As well as the billions of pounds we spend each year on defensive technologies, the skills of people charged with implementing and managing those tools to protect us is something that is arguably even more critical in the defence against growing criminal and nation-state cyber capabilities. This seems unlikely.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) is a solution to automate the deployment of a secure cloud foundation on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With this solution, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment.

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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, The control plane is responsible for managing the configuration of the data plane proxies.

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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

With the announcement of Security Copilot back in March, there has been a growing demand to understand and expand the role of machine learning (ML) in security. This demand is especially apparent in the US government space, where these advancements have a direct impact on national security.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Historically, security was built from an on-premises perspective, just trying to keep everybody out,” said Mitch Rosen, Global Director for Solutions Engineering with Keeper Security Inc., which provides password management solutions. Much of this comes down to password management practices.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

By strategically integrating these services, we’ve built a cohesive security architecture that meets the stringent standards required for government data protection. Foundational security and compliance Our security strategy is anchored by services such as AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS ) , AWS CloudTrail , and AWS Config.

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Government Technology Insider

MARCH 10, 2023

Uniquely created legacy systems, specific risk factors, and highly sensitive data all require the utmost security from agencies’ IT teams, but equally, those teams must embrace the future of federal IT security solutions. It is at this nexus that many agencies find themselves at the moment. However, that is precisely the case.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 30, 2024

Agencies often transition to the cloud to close security gaps, but the cloud itself poses unique risks. Earlier this year, an Australian pension fund managing the investments of 600,000 educators — with $125 billion of assets under management — lost all its cloud-stored data due to an administrative error. In the U.S.,

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

On October 24, 2024, the White House released a National Security Memorandum (NSM) on Artificial Intelligence (AI) , which focuses on ensuring US leadership in developing advanced AI technologies. AWS’s commitment to security and compliance directly aligns with the NSM’s trustworthiness goals.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This post explains how healthcare organizations and partners can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build secure and scalable infrastructure for secondary usage of health data in alignment with the European Health Data Space (EHDS). This is the first of two posts describing an AWS reference architecture for EHDS.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The fiscal year 2022 Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey found that 69% of respondents reported positive perceptions of agency DEIA practices , but that still leaves almost a third of workers who didn’t. To do it, they need workforce case management.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MARCH 27, 2024

However, there is one lingering question that has always and continues to be in the background: “How to balance accessibility, productivity and security in an AI world.” Before jumping in with Accessibility and Security discussion, I wanted to quickly review AI and Copilot to share why so many users are excited. What is AI and Copilot?

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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. For example, only central IT typically has access to the Microsoft Purview portal.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 14, 2023

Government IT leaders should consider improving their security with tools designed to go beyond signature-based detection to spot unknown but potentially malicious behaviour We live in a world of escalating digital threats to government IT systems. That means external, organised crime gangs are the biggest threat to government security.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Furthermore, the sensitive nature of genomic data mandates a secure environment for processing and storage. However, for bioinformatics workflows involving multiple tools, the process of pulling each image can be time-consuming and challenging to manage.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Users can execute and parameterize queries and analytics through the interface and retrieve most recently available data from satellites, using secure proxy connections to publicly inaccessible databases. Some other projects powered by Aether include Rapid Analytics for Disaster Response (RADR) and Chemical Security Mapping Tool (CSMT).

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Mark Warren, Product Specialist at Osirium, explains why privileged access poses security issues in the public sector Government organisations are the backbone of the UK. Today, adversaries target individuals and endpoints much more frequently than systems and networks to secure the privileged access they require to devastate CNI.

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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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GovLoop

DECEMBER 1, 2023

At the same time, a raft of federal mandates and guidance has focused attention on supply-chain security: The May 2021 Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity says leaders “must take action to rapidly improve the security and integrity of the software supply chain.” The vendor community can help here as well.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

However, with these benefits come challenges to meet regulatory and compliance requirements surrounding data privacy and security. We also explain how LZA for Healthcare codifies HIPAA controls and AWS Security Best Practices to accelerate the creation of an environment to run protective health information workloads in AWS.

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 10, 2021

Pretty much everything for-profit businesses need, including tools for knowledge management. Slab is a browser-based knowledge management tool that companies (and nonprofits and educational institutions) can use to create, organize, store, and share information. Slab is a knowledge management tool and wiki. Overview of Slab.

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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? In June 2023, StateRAMP updated their security baselines to align with 800-53 revision 5 (R5). What is StateRAMP?

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Jon Fielding, Managing Director EMEA Apricorn, discusses the need to focus on information and data protection whilst tackling the critical ‘human factor’ in breach prevention, backup and recovery strategies. Corporate stakeholders and workers alike should be accountable for information security.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

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. High-level architecture of Automated Forensics Orchestrator for Amazon EC2.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Consumer messaging apps and government While consumer messaging apps have become a convenient and easily accessible communications and collaboration option, they pose significant security risks. The problem is that consumer apps are designed for massive scale and extensibility, not necessarily for security.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 25, 2024

His firm is a data-centric cloud security company. Local governments should ensure that their employees’ electronic gear is secure from hackers. Security teams have significantly less visibility into these devices than they do into government-owned devices, meaning it’s harder to manage these increased risks.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

overlays to help agencies securely apply TIC 3.0 In this post, we show you how you can push or pull your security telemetry data to the National Cybersecurity Protection System (NCPS) Cloud Log Aggregation Warehouse (CLAW) using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) or third-party solutions. requirements to AWS deployments.

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Government Technology Insider

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The mass adoption of cloud solutions by government agencies has improved cost management and service delivery but has brought with it some significant security challenges. Implementing Zero Trust has enabled NJJ to secure employees from anywhere, expand service capabilities, and build a more resilient security posture.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MARCH 8, 2024

Your detailed exploration of Microsoft Copilot for Security's role in assisting with NIST 800-171 Access Control requirements opened my eyes to the capabilities of AI in the cybersecurity realm. I learned how crucial AI-powered tools are for efficiently managing cybersecurity tasks, a boon for organizations juggling limited resources.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

Azure AD is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service that helps your employees sign in and access resources in your organization. Azure AD also provides a range of security features that can help you protect your identity data and meet the CMMC requirements related to identity and access management.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As federal agencies strive to enhance digital services and create a seamless customer experience , integrating robust identity and access management (IAM) solutions has become paramount. Login.gov on AWS While the performance of the platform is critical, security is paramount to its success.

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