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Zero-Trust Architectures Should Include Data Protection, Cyber Recovery

FedTech Magazine

Data protection and cyber recovery solutions are key components of federal zero-trust security architectures, particularly for civilian agencies with public-facing networks. President Biden’s May 2021 cybersecurity executive order mandated that agencies develop zero-trust architecture implementation plans.

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Knowing When, Where and How to Modernize

GovLoop

The objective is to implement strategies that effect and control change and help people adapt to it. Clunky, old, public facing systems frustrate constituents and reduce engagement, she said. What is Change Management? 6 Steps to Success But great rewards are possible with effective change management.

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Governments should look under the hood to make sure their IT systems are safe from cyber criminals

American City & Country

Koenig says public-facing systems like websites have a much larger attack surface. “As As more public services move online, the criticality of these systems goes up. Koenig says that if IT leaders don’t have a comprehensive picture of the state of security, they risk neglecting something that is important.

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Looking ahead: What has the pandemic taught us about online access?

Open Access Government - Technology News

Differences which remain need not be so extreme if implementing more than one way of interacting with an organisation or waiting for users to need online material before providing it. There is not so much an approach of one size fits all in my view, but a multifaceted option which works for as many user groups as possible.

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Simplify firewall deployments using centralized inspection architecture with Gateway Load Balancer

AWS Public Sector Blog

This post will explore best practices for implementing GWLB to facilitate centralized traffic inspection for both east-west and north-south traffic flows. For customers preferring to use their firewalls for NAT capabilities, a two-arm architecture can be implemented. In this approach, traffic exits directly from the inspection VPC.

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(Contact-Free) Human Touch Helps Transform a Riverscape

GovLoop

They also implemented an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to allow constituents to communicate with the office outside business hours. Skowera thinks that implementing new technologies is like constructing a new building. Engagement as an Agency-wide Priority.

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New AI Use Cases Tackle State Health and Human Services Challenges 

Government Technology Insider

AI was described as a job aid that can help the workforce, from case workers to administrators to supervisors, be more efficient and effective, said Herb Wilson, Director of Public Sector Health, Human, and Social Services at TCS Tata Consultancy Services. These use cases explored using AI in new ways to address very old problems.