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Continuous monitoring and governance: AWS best practices for keeping your data secure during the holidays

AWS Public Sector Blog

Using the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity framework as a template, follow these five steps to prepare for the upcoming holiday season: Continuously educate through end-user training. Implement robust monitoring and alerting systems for both on premises and AWS environments.

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Higher education utilizes cloud and student engagement to drive sustainability improvements

AWS Public Sector Blog

As Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers and education industry experts highlighted earlier this year in the “ Innovation drivers in higher education ” report, student demand for comprehensive sustainability strategies is a key factor in driving this change. Sustainability is becoming a priority topic across public sector organizations.

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Harnessing data for safer communities

American City & Country

The ability to gather, store and analyze almost unlimited amounts of data has transformed almost every aspect of society, including law enforcement. On the one hand, it offers law enforcement agencies an unprecedented wealth of information that can be harnessed for situational awareness, safety, coordination of response times and more.

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Leadership, Change and Respect for Our Foundational Law

ASPA National Weblog

During state and local elections, we heard about drug prices and drug dangers, taxes, unjust education, unjust convictions, initiatives by the people and special interests, stadiums, plastic bags and homelessness. Thank goodness law and policy guides our institutional tradition in transitioning leadership. We heard the unthinkable.

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Work permits: A readily-implemented lever for reducing illegal child labor

GCN

COMMENTARY | New research shows that the work permits process plays a vital role in preventing child labor violations because it educates children, parents and employers about the law.

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Civix simplifies online campaign finance reporting with AWS serverless technology

AWS Public Sector Blog

Public officials and employees for electoral candidates, political committees, and political action committees (PACs) must publicly disclose their campaign finances in accordance with different state campaign finance disclosure laws. Together, they built a proof-of-concept to act as an incremental prototype. Learn more about AWS for GovTech.

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Frugal architecture in action: The Urban Institute innovates with R and Serverless on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Cost, resilience, and performance are non-functional requirements that are often at tension with each other.” — Werner Vogels, The Frugal Architect, Law III Nonprofit organizations are typically frugal and responsible. Unchallenged Success Leads to Assumptions.” — The Frugal Architect, Law VII Frugality does not imply rigidity.

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