AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Many Amazon Web Service (AWS) customers in regulated environments such as the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) struggle to gain security approval to take advantage of the scaling of Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) using its Auto Scaling capabilities. All of these technologies have used a form of scaling in the past.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Compliance is essential, but ensuring compliance in the cloud with various regulations and standards can be challenging, especially for public sector organizations. This post explains how you can use AWS tools and services to secure and automate compliance in your environment. AWS provides you with the necessary tools to achieve this.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In the following sections, we provide a deeper look into each of these areas through the lens of AnyOrganization a public sector organization in the financial regulation space. Given their limited qualified workforce, examiners can only thoroughly review a small percentage of documentation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

The pandemic also accelerated government agencies’ adoption of new technologies to support team collaboration and more flexible work environments, including chat, video conferencing, and document sharing. The problem is that consumer apps are designed for massive scale and extensibility, not necessarily for security.

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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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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Many public sector customers are interested in building secure, cost-effective, reliable, and highly performant applications. Building modern applications in AWS helps customers with increased innovation, speed, reliability, scalability, and security while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 15, 2025

Ygor Lutz, Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder of Travizory Border Security, guides us through artificial intelligence-powered BorderTech, which balances the need for both speed and security As competition between travel destinations increases, simplifying immigration processes remains a priority.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Lire cet article en Français Moving Government of Canada (GC) workloads into production in the AWS Canadian Regions requires putting these workloads through the Security Assessment & Authorization (SA&A) process. First, AWS provides compliance documentation for controls that are on the AWS side of the Shared Responsibility Model.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In today's digital age, securing an organization's information is more critical than ever. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) stood up a program called Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA). Baseline implementation guides can be found at Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) Project | CISA.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This self-contained solution uses two 20-foot shipping containers to create an ICD-705 compliant shielded enclosure, equipped as a data center with built-in power distribution, redundant cooling (N+1), security, monitoring, fire suppression, and other essential infrastructure components.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Healthcare practitioners rely on specialized knowledge such as publications in medical research, caregiving techniques, treatment plans, and policy documents. Patient data is sensitive and in many jurisdictions processing, access, and storage of patient data is regulated by government entities.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This can pose security and operational continuity challenges and governments seek to address this challenge. Amazon Web Services (AWS) public sector government transformation specialists researched what technology leaders in government and in the highly regulated private sector believe their main IT challenges are.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

First, a retrieval component identifies relevant documents or passages from a vast knowledge base, narrowing down the search space. Security and compliance: Anduril’s unwavering commitment As a defense technology company, Anduril operates in a highly regulated environment where data security and compliance are paramount.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

To modernize their healthcare infrastructure and improve data security, Bavarian hospital Fachklinikum Mainschleife , in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Kite Consult and consulting firm Oberender AG , undertook a massive initiative: the migration of their entire IT infrastructure to AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

Customers also say that these challenges are often compounded by inflexible legacy systems, internal skill gaps, and anxiety with ensuring the security of sensitive data. For instance, a production database might be storing both regulated data such as Federal Tax Information (FTI) and non-FTI data in a single relational database.

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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

MARCH 19, 2024

Summary Highly regulated enterprises and government agencies still maintain critical applications operating on legacy mainframe systems. Modernizing critical applications includes challenges of undocumented and complex business rules, technical obstacles, regulatory compliance, enterprise-grade security, and privacy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

Central to the event were the themes of generative AI, sustainability, security, and—importantly for Europe—digital sovereignty. Building a strong data foundation Secure, reliable, and scalable cloud infrastructure helps public sector organizations to innovate quickly while meeting strict security and compliance requirements.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Importantly, the data mesh model supports robust data governance and compliance, as data domains can closely align their data management practices with GxP guidelines, ISO 27001 standards, and other industry-specific regulations. This includes data stewardship roles, metadata management, and data lineage tracking.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Note: Security and compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer. The customer assumes responsibility and management of the guest operating system (including updates and security patches), other associated application software, as well as the configuration of any AWS security products.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Once that is defined, we dive deep into considerations like model selection, secure and responsible use, and staffing. Opportunities range from automated document processing to personalized services to accelerating analysis. The eBook outlines techniques for classification, access controls, and continuous adaptations to regulations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

In some cases, they host workloads in both partitions to be cost-optimized while meeting security demands. AWS Site-to-Site VPN is a managed service that uses Internet Protocol security (IPSec) to create encrypted tunnels. See the documentation for more information on this topic.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Similarly, financial services organisations can benefit from agile, efficient, and security-compliant cloud solutions at scale, providing consumers faster and secure digital banking, insurance, and payment innovations. Cloud technology is key to accelerating innovation in India’s public sector.

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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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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While IP comes in many common forms, such as documents and spreadsheets, but images and CAD files pose just as big a risk and are more difficult to protect with traditional security tools. Depending on the industry, different regulations and protection policies may also need to be applied to protect CAD files.

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Google Public Sector

JULY 17, 2024

Public sector and government organizations require cloud solutions that can drive innovation and also adhere to strict sovereignty and security requirements. For years, security experts have warned of the risks of government overreliance on singular security controls. A recent U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Flexibility – With microservices, changes and updates can be made to individual components without affecting the entire system, making it easier to adapt the system to new laws, regulations, or business requirements. Amazon Textract is an ML service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned or electronic documents.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

CamDX adopts the model of Estonia’s X-Road and is a unified yet decentralized data exchange layer between information systems that offers a standardized and secure way to provide and consume services. Open Source Adaptation of the Year Award special mentions: BERDI – Canada Energy Regulator, Canada.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In our network of AWS Partners , you’ll find partners with proven expertise in services like Amazon Textract and Amazon Comprehend , which can help public sector organizations with intelligent document processing to meet electronic records requirements. In less than a year, FutureOrb ID went from concept to prototype.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

September 2024 Update Microsoft 365 Commercial + Azure Commercial FedRAMP in Azure The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Dave Williams, Materials Manager at 3M UK PLC, introduces 3M bright screen privacy filters for laptops that enhance on-screen privacy and compliance in the public sector In today’s digital age, the public sector is increasingly reliant on technology to deliver services efficiently and securely.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In today's digital age, securing an organization's information is more critical than ever. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) stood up a program called Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA). Baseline implementation guides can be found at Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) Project | CISA.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2022

In a digital world, and in response to changing government policy, public sector organizations are under increasing pressure to quickly deliver business value while improving stability, quality, and security. Once they receive the account, they’re responsible for implementing security controls as required by GC policy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Considering the sensitivity of the Aadhaar number and the potential implication of having one’s Aadhaar number compromised, UIDAI mandated the need for all Aadhaar and Aadhaar-related data to be encrypted and stored separately in a secure, access-controlled data repository known as an Aadhaar Data Vault. What is an Aadhaar Data Vault?

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 18, 2024

Assured Workloads is a modern cloud solution that allows companies to more easily run regulated workloads in many of Google Cloud’s global regions. It allows you to apply specific security and compliance controls to a folder in support of your compliance requirements.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 11, 2023

These silos can require different platforms, different management, different security, and different authorization approaches. Governance – According to modern data-driven practices, organizations federate or distribute governance to balance nonnegotiable security, privacy, and regulation concerns with the need to innovate.

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