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. Users might think they don’t have better options, so let’s dispel some myths.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Over the past few years, advanced network analytics changed the game, providing state and local governments keen insight into network performance and where things might go awry. Not long ago, IT departments used only a ping to test the speed and health of their networks. Where we came from, there was pretty much nothing.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As talent shortages grow, job vacancies are commonplace across governmental agencies. Add the challenge of retaining existing talent and government agencies face a perfect storm. Due to a technology called intelligent document processing (IDP), agencies can accomplish their missions faster—even as vacancies mount.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

State and local government agencies possess hoards of valuable data about citizens, businesses, healthcare organizations and other entities. Naturally, this makes them targets for cyberattacks that seek to pilfer data, extort government agencies and commit cyber fraud.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In a modern work environment, state and local government agencies regularly find their employees collaborating remotely. Many agencies have adapted to this reality by orchestrating security solutions suitable for a distributed workforce. Vince Hwang, senior director of cloud security and…

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Policy & Politics Journal blog

MARCH 5, 2025

These actorsincluding government agencies, private companies, and interest groupsfrequently vie for influence, and political rivalries… Continue reading →

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

For state and local government agencies, AI’s capabilities — new and old — enable higher-quality responses… While it’s fair to say that AI is not new to cybersecurity, it’s also true that we can now do more with AI to improve cybersecurity than ever before.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

They’re not easy to remember or manage, especially for state and local agencies that lack access to password managers or single sign-on technologies. Passwords get a lot of hate, and most of it is warranted.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 13, 2025

While artificial intelligence will dominate this years state and local government technology landscape, theres one iteration of AI that agencies will want to pay close attention to. Lets explore agentic AI, its benefits and how implementing it on-premises can help with data control and security.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Organizations with high resiliency needs or regulatory requirements, such as government agencies and financial institutions, need to be able to rely on local data processing and machine learning (ML) in remote edge environments. Outposts allows them to do this by connecting them to the power of the Regions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Many public sector organizations are seeking to integrate solutions deployed in their on-premises environments with new cloud applications and technologies as they modernize their organizations. A cloud marketplace provides broad access to these solutions.

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Careers in Government

AUGUST 10, 2022

The post Five Reasons Why Government Agencies Should Promote Remote Work appeared first on Careers in Government. The movement towards a remote workplace as a normative work situation is not just a corporate work phenomenon.

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Careers in Government

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The post Building Unified Leadership Teams: A Foundation for Success in Nonprofits and Government Agencies appeared first on Careers in Government. Teams face increasing complexity, limited resources, and the need to adapt to ever-evolving community demands.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 6, 2025

After completion of the program, Precise achieved Advanced tier partner status and was selected by a federal government agency to create a machine learning as a service (MLaaS) platform on AWS. The platform helped the agency digitize and process forms, pictures, and other documents.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

But 9 times out of 10, what we’re really talking about is Software as a Service, especially among state and local government agencies that don’t necessarily have the in-house staff to develop, manage and secure their own apps in the cloud.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Even as government agencies adopt zero-trust architectures and become more adept at detecting and preventing cybersecurity threats, attackers are still finding ways to get through defenses.According to the 2024 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, the use of valid credentials became the top initial access vector last year, accounting for 30% of the (..)

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As recently as five years ago, state governments were still seen as slow adopters of cloud resources. But today, a supermajority of state government agencies have adopted cloud solutions. Around the discussion of that report, CIOs agreed many state government agencies were overdue to…

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The age of digital transformation is upon us, and hybrid cloud solutions are taking center stage in managing state and local government agency operations. But does a hybrid cloud really benefit state and local governments? Does it aid in sharing information and analyzing data as it claims to do?

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2025

Minnesotas Office of Enterprise Sustainability works to reduce energy and asset waste among the states government agencies. Established in 2017 and reaffirmed recently by Gov. Tim Walz, the office concentrates on supporting sustainability in six focus areas, one of which is procurement.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 6, 2024

State and local government agencies need a clear plan that delivers business continuity, speeds recovery time and… Today, it can take days or weeks for an organization to recover from cyber incidents and resume operations.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 4, 2024

Continuous authentication is a tweak to traditional authentication methods, turning log-in-at-the-start authentication into more active monitoring. The usual goal is to reduce the security risk from stolen or borrowed credentials or malware-infected workstations. Here are five things to know about this authentication method.

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2025

IT staffing continues to challenge rural government agencies, often making it difficult to execute on new technology initiatives. Asking these five questions can improve matters. Click the banner for information about managed services that can fill staff shortages.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In 2020 and 2021, many state and local government agencies invested in new PC fleets to accommodate pandemic-induced remote working conditions. We were just starting to get on Teams and Zoom all day long, Jen Larson, general manager for the commercial clients segment at Intel, tells StateTech.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

Government agencies handle vast volumes of bureaucratic documents daily, ranging from tax forms to medical records. By integrating human review into the artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) workflow, government agencies maintain quality control.

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

The pandemic created a public health emergency that unearthed the critical need for government to rapidly respond to and support its residents — especially through digital channels. But without a strong foundation in mobile and user-centered design, many government agencies struggled to use technology in an effective, responsive way.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Multicloud and hybrid cloud environments have become the new norm for state and local government agencies. Meanwhile, IT modernization has become a core priority for all levels of government. In 2023, 88% of state CIOs began, or resumed, the process of expediting cloud adoption.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

State and local government agencies carry the heavy burden of collecting and managing large amounts of sensitive data to bring essential services to citizens. Naturally, they want to be on the cutting edge of cybersecurity, which is where the zero-trust security model comes in.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The federal government relies on forms and other documents. The wealth of information available to government agencies is often locked in these forms due to a lack of manpower to process and analyze them for correlations and relationships. Many important forms sit on the web, while others sit in storage boxes.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 12, 2024

In our increasingly digital world, providing a secure hybrid work environment has become essential for government agencies seeking to deliver critical services effectively.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Printing is, and maybe always will be, an important part of the workday for government agencies at all levels of the public sector, whether theyre working onsite or remotely from a home office.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Economic challenges in recent years have led many government agencies to stretch out their IT refresh cycles. Where many organizations previously would replace aging infrastructure every three to five years, some are now trying to extend those periods to save money.

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2022

As cyberattacks on critical infrastructure continue to proliferate, state, local, tribal and territorial (SLTT) government agencies must plan for the future while also addressing existing infrastructure security challenges.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In recent years, ransomware attacks have become a growing threat to city, state and local government agencies and organizations. Attackers have made headlines for major disruptions in states across the country, including Florida, Georgia, Maryland and Texas.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Government organizations may seek to jump on the gen AI bandwagon, but the technology’s complexities could sideline their efforts. Our framework addresses some critical implementation questions.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Technology is making it faster and easier than ever to deliver a quality customer experience, and government agencies must keep pace, implementing the digitized services their customers have grown to expect. In fact, 60 percent of customers think government needs to modernize how it delivers services, according to a Salesforce survey.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

But what about our critical government agencies? Hospitals turned to virtual care visits to limit the spread of dangerous viruses. Even manufacturers leveraged artificial intelligence and machine learning to limit the number of workers on the factory floor. As CIO of Elkhart County, Ind., in 2020 I helped successfully leverage new…

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2023

State and local government agencies face the same quandary as their private sector counterparts when it comes to the future of data architectures: Do they continue to service existing environments or do they modernize with cloud and/or hybrid cloud infrastructure?

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