AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

If youre working in highly regulated industries like the federal government or national security, you face unique challengesfrom managing complex legacy systems with accumulated technical debt to keeping pace with rapidly evolving technologies.

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Artificial intelligence is not just a technological advancement; it's a national security priority. Google recently commissioned IDC to conduct a study that surveyed 161 federal CAIOs, government AI leaders and other decision makers to understand how agency leaders are leading in this new AI era.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As state and local government agencies modernize IT infrastructure to support hybrid work environments and cutting-edge citizen services, they also find themselves having to secure access to a mix of modern and legacy systems. Enter identity and access management.

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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 ).

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Global leaders are convening in Germany this week at the annual Munich Security Conference (MSC) to discuss key foreign policy and security challenges. government, this moment marks a crucial inflection point: embrace bold modernization of digital infrastructure and AI investment or risk being outpaced by global competitors.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 6, 2025

In an increasingly digital world, governments and public sector entities are seeking secure and efficient ways to use cloud technologies. In this post, I share how we at AWS are collaborating with national cyber regulators and other public sector entities to enable secure adoption of the AWS Cloud across countries public sectors.

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2025

Physical security will continue to be a top priority for state and local government IT decision-makers in 2025, especially as digital technology becomes more deeply embedded in the protection of people, property and physical assets. Internet-connected devices used in physical

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

State government needs policies and procedures to ensure data is accurate and handled properly from the start. Data governance fills that role: It helps organizations define and manage the ways in which data is input, stored, accessed and ultimately deleted. So, what Is Data Governance?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

State and Local Government (SLG) organizations often have requirements to host regulated workloads with distinct compliance requirements. While all AWS global regions are secure, it is important for U.S. AWS Organizations and an appropriate multi-account strategy are necessary elements of a security architecture. SLG customer.

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2024

State and local government teams are constantly thinking about how to improve customer service. Making things more efficient, reducing barriers to doing business with agencies, simplifying paperwork and moving to online processes wherever possible are all top-of-mind strategies for managers who want to deliver better constituent services.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

The reality is that government networks may have a lot of connected equipment that IT staff dont manage or care about, which can create headaches for security teams. Ideally, in such situations, the security team will tell IT that if an asset is on the network, it needs to be in a configuration management database.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

In this post, we highlight the key takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2024 for government agencies. So if youre a government leader and you want to get up to speed on all the essential information and insights from AWS re:Invent 2024, weve compiled what youre looking for here.

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2023

A security operations center, or SOC, can be the nerve center of a strong state and local cybersecurity effort. Why should you try to staff and manage your own SOC?” SOC teams are charged with detecting, preventing, investigating and responding to cyberthreats, ideally with round-the-clock monitoring of an organization’s network.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In its list of State CIO Top 10 Priorities for 2023, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers cited cybersecurity and risk management as the top concern, while digital government and digital services ranked second. The nature of state government IT operations can create additional security challenges.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has experienced a great deal of success in adopting a single identity and access management solution for its employees since committing to Microsoft Azure Active Directory in 2018, the state’s chief operations officer said Monday during the annual conference of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers. (..)

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 3, 2025

The quantum clock is more accurate than ever before, it will lose less than one second over billions of year, providing a level of precision that will be revolutionary for military navigations to secure communications. The post The UK’s quantum clock: Changing military precision and security appeared first on Open Access Government.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This post discusses the management of AWS in higher education institutions, emphasizing governance to securely foster innovation without compromising security and detailing policies and responsibilities for managing AWS accounts across projects and research.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

However, the use of consumer-grade messaging applications poses significant security and sovereignty risks for Australian government agencies, making it difficult to meet governmental information management obligations. No one except intended recipients has access to the keys required to decrypt the content—not even AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

With more than 85 percent of its governments workload now hosted in the cloud, Bahrains approach offers insights for other nations embarking on their own digital transformations. In 2017, the government introduced its Cloud First Policy, which acknowledged cloud computing as a key enabler for digital transformation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A multi-account strategy is important for Amazon Web Services (AWS) public sector customers because it is the foundation of cloud governance and compliance. Public sector customers using a shared account model can improve security and operational efficiency by adopting a multi-account strategy.

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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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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 18, 2025

Dominic Norton, Sales Director at Spitfire Network Services Ltd, discusses the evolution of security, focusing on the shift from physical to digital vulnerabilities, including securing IoT devices in the public sector Not long ago, securing a public sector site, whether a government office, school, or transport hub, was largely a physical process.

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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 15, 2025

30, 2024, shortly after introducing its first information security policy. As part of its risk management plan, the county also joined StateRAMP for its standardized security certification of cloud vendors. Arapahoe County, Colo., adopted its first cyber incident response plan Sept.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In todays digital landscape, federal agencies face unprecedented challenges in securing their complex information technology (IT) infrastructure. This journey requires not only advanced technology solutions but also careful coordination, strategic planning, and strong partnerships between government and industry.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In North Dakota, CISO Michael Gregg is running a security operations center that benefits his state and local government agency partners in several ways. By manning a highly capable security operations center, Gregg relieves his North Dakota peers of that challenge. Through a deal with the North Dakota…

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

For state and local government, that’s especially concerning when it comes to those with most-privileged access, such as system administrators and officials with access to financial systems. In support of zero-trust security, privileged access…

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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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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Large language models, or LLMs, underpin that state and local governments are looking to achieve with artificial intelligence. While these powerful models help bring generative AI to life, they need to be handled with care to ensure privacy and security, among other considerations.

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 31, 2023

Previously, the governor established the state’s first Joint Security Operations Center and based it in Brooklyn. As chief cyber officer, Ahern manages cybersecurity threat assessment, mitigation and response for the state and across the interagency government enterprise.

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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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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. When critical files are misplaced or lost, productivity halts.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 28, 2024

As the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud provider, we recognize our role and responsibility in supporting customers to use health data securely and responsibly. At AWS, security will always be our top priority. AWS is architected to be the most secure cloud computing environment available today.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

State and local governments have the crucial responsibility of protecting essential utilities and citizen data from cyberattacks.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

To support federal customers in addressing these challenges, Amazon Web Services (AWS) developed the Data Fabric Security (DFS) on AWS solution to support the identity and access needs of a multi-organization system. This will facilitate agile and secure data sharing with their providers.

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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 5, 2025

Security fragmentation remains a significant challenge for departments managing hybrid cloud environments because their agencies often own independent on-premises and cloud infrastructure. Failure to align this infrastructure results in inconsistent security policies, visibility gaps and access management issues.

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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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