AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

With the inclusion of whole-genome sequencing data for all 500,000 participants, the sheer size of the data (currently around 30 petabytes) meant they had to find a way for researchers to analyze the data where they were situated, instead of downloading huge amounts.

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Google Public Sector

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In the future, AI agents will help government employees work and code more efficiently, manage their applications, gain deeper data insights, identify and resolve security threats, and bring their best ideas to life. Trend #5: Security gets tighter and tougher with AI As AI becomes more prevalent, so do the threats it poses.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

Once Civix outlined their priorities to AWS, the AWS teams hosted personalized development sessions tailored to designing the solution. The AWS teams established weekly touchpoints to elaborate on best practices for each of the phases of design, development, and validation. In just nine months, the Civix Ethics API was born.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Simplifying and securing communication to engage the school community. Teachers can use Flathat to simply and securely connect with students and parents on a day-to-day basis, without reaching out to each student or parent independently. AWS Promotional Credit has given us the freedom to iterate and fast-track our product development.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 19, 2023

To jumpstart your secure gen AI journey, we developed the Public Sector Guide to Getting Started with Gen AI. This downloadable eBook provides agency leaders with a step-by-step guide to getting started on their AI journeys, with recommended best practices from Google Cloud’s AI experts and customers.

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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, This article appears in our report “ Getting Legacy Systems Up to Speed With Modern Security.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Open Source Creation of the Year Award celebrates government organizations that embody open government through the development of open source solutions. The app has been downloaded more than 31 million times since its launch and is used weekly by almost two million users.

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Google Public Sector

JULY 11, 2024

The latest artificial intelligence (AI) tools and cloud computing can accelerate the collection and analysis of insights by processing massive amounts of data quickly and securely. They have developed an AI tool that can accurately classify tumors and simultaneously explain its decision-making process.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Solution overview To address the need for quicker turnaround and more accurate transcription of audiovisual files, the Contra Costa County (CCC) District Attorney’s (DA) Office reached out to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and partnered with AWS Partner ScaleCapacity to develop a solution that would automate the manual transcription process.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 3, 2023

A practical guide to transforming security teams, processes, and tools to support cloud security development Every day, we see new challenges emerging with cloud security which teams struggle to tackle. How do we ingrain security into the culture of cloud teams and get developers to remediate?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

percent claim to have successfully developed a data culture within their organizations, according to NewVantage Partners’ Data and Analytics Leadership Annual Executive Survey 2023. However, finding ways to put the increasing number of data streams to work for your organization can be a challenge.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Its no wonder, then, that government agencies are eager to acquire, develop and use new tech as soon as possible. For instance, they must be sure of cloud security and unbiased datasets feeding AI. Technological change happens faster today than in the past, and innovations can bring about great things.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

For certain, officials must “prepare for the worst,” said Michael Gregg, North Dakota’s Chief Information Security Officer, “and be ready to deal with whatever comes [their] way.” Soon, Gregg’s office will develop its approach for the North Dakota legislative session, which takes place every other year.

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Google Public Sector

JUNE 26, 2024

We'll explore the ways our AI solutions are adaptive, secure, responsible, and intelligent – enabling agencies to serve constituents better than ever before. Security is paramount for public sector organizations. Secure AI: What does it mean? Simply put, secure AI means that safeguards are built into the AI systems themselves.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

More than 4,500 EdTechs globally turn to the scalability and security of AWS to deliver their solutions. Successful EdTechs balance innovation (for example, new features or technology, like generative artificial intelligence (AI) ) with managing costs – both of product development and of operating costs for customer environments.

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Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Within the public sector, AI has emerged as a powerful force, notably contributing to digital transformation, fostering collaboration and cost-cutting initiatives, enhancing predictive analytics, facilitating cloud computing, and strengthening public safety and security measures.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This not only secures critical data, but streamlines operations,” Steel explained. AlphaSix brings 13 years of experience in developing data tools and platforms to help agencies spend less time on data management and more on analytics, Hughes said. This article appeared in our guide, “ AI: Where We Are, Where We’re Going.”

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GovLoop

JANUARY 10, 2025

Working with Data Labs, DOLA developed a proposed pilot program to increase access to affordable dwellings. By 12 months, the department secured a historic level of funding $250 million that included money for data initiatives and built on the pilots success. The results were very positive.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

A data project grows too large to handle “The idea to use anonymized cell phone data to help with economic-development use cases came from Michael Podgursky, SCAER’s director. The data manager can just do the data cut and give it to the researcher without any hassle, confusion, or manual workflows,” said Shruthi.

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GovLoop

APRIL 26, 2023

But security is equally crucial. As data increases, it becomes more challenging to store, share and secure it, within and across organizations. “We Red River helps agencies with many facets of technology integration that pertain to data, such as cloud migration, data center development, data mapping and infrastructure.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 11, 2025

1) Timely legally acquired digital device downloads are increasingly available to intelligence analysts across the public sector. Knowledge and understanding of AI use against civil service/public sector organisations and the commission of serious and organised criminality is developing. M Hughes et al., Accessed 06/02/2025.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 30, 2024

If the code behind a new application has flaws, adding code for cyber defense on top of it “is not necessarily bringing you more security,” said John Allison, Director, Public Sector, with Checkmarx/TD Synnex. AppSec Testing During Development So how can agencies release new applications without creating new vulnerabilities?

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Despite an abundance of mandates and advisories, government agencies often struggle to accurately identify and protect against security vulnerabilities and attacks in the applications they develop and use. Pre-execution security controls (like IPS, NGF, WAF, etc.) Pre-execution security controls (like IPS, NGF, WAF, etc.)

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GovLoop

MAY 25, 2023

Cyber experts often emphasize that there’s no silver bullet for improving the security of government systems. In 2021, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) debuted a catalog of nearly 300 known, exploited vulnerabilities; that list now stands at around 900. The problem is not that technology always falls short.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

If you’re planning on attending, here’s how you can make the most of the event: Download the mobile app Download the AWS Events mobile app to have everything you need to know about the AWS Summit Washington, DC with you on the go. Secure your spot now.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Underpinning Google products and services – which provide an intuitive, personalized consumer experience – is artificial intelligence and security. AI is delivering great experiences to our users, securely and at global scale at every moment. It is what we have come to think of as the “Google magic.” In Dearborn, Mich.,

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 8, 2024

To navigate today’s cybersecurity environment, federal agencies must build a pipeline of security talent. But that’s a challenge: Depending on an organization’s mission, it can take up to three years to train someone for a government security role, and during that time, they also need other on-the-job training.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Data security may look a little different in a distributed environment, Hoon said, “and there are also scalability and storage challenges to deal with.” We unify data security and data management — the collection, storage and processing of data — against our customer’s mission needs,” Hoon said.

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GovLoop

JULY 17, 2024

Part of its initial focus was preparing federal workers to handle cybersecurity challenges, and it now coordinates with cyber education programs such as those that CISA and the Federal Information Security Educators run. Where to Start In developing cyber literacy programs, agencies can draw from many resources.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 26, 2024

It’s imperative that these databases comply with the White House zero-trust security mandate. A zero-trust model includes supporting tools such as identity and access management, data loss protection, analytics, network security, etc.,” Open Source Benefits An open source approach here comes with certain inherent security benefits.

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GovLoop

MAY 6, 2024

But there’s a catch: They also need to secure that data. This is where zero-trust architecture (ZTA) comes into play,” said Michael Epley, Chief Architect and Security Strategist with Red Hat. “In And with edge data increasingly tied to the cloud, security efforts also will help ensure the validity of that vital information.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

97% of people around the globe cannot identify a phishing email, and 74% would download a potentially malicious file because they lack the cybersecurity awareness to spot and prevent it. Human error is by far the biggest cause of security incidents and tack- ling this is key for reducing attacks. Password Security.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Now the department’s Chief Information Security Officer, Baidwan puts it this way: “OK, we got $5. With that in mind, DHS developed the Unified Cybersecurity Maturity Model (UCMM), a framework that “allows us to tie the investment dollars to the cybersecurity of a [high-priority] program and its component systems,” Baidwan said.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 23, 2023

An Intelligent Identity Data Platform makes it possible to integrate that information both to develop a fuller understanding of each user and to enforce access policies consistently across different platforms. ” Download the full guide here. Image by DIDIER PETIT from Pixabay Favorite

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Its true that universities no longer teach COBOL, but guess what, you can teach a developer COBOL, Dunkin said. We just need to protect that stuff and make sure its safe and secure. ” To learn more about how agencies are updating legacy systems, download it here: Get the Guide Photo by Pixabay at Pexels.com Favorite

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Key topics covered include addressing concerns around data sovereignty, security, lock-in risks and budget control while highlighting AWS capabilities and commitments in these areas. Advancing data governance and stewardship practices to build trust and enable secure data sharing between departments, including safeguarding privacy.

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Government Technology Insider

MARCH 27, 2025

Continuous learning programs may help agencies prepare staff to use AI solutions now and innovate with them as the technology develops. While agency employees are concerned with impacts on their jobs, constituents are more worried about data security and privacy. Download the Study 1.

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