State Tech Magazine

APRIL 30, 2025

The increasing use of AI by threat actors has significantly enhanced their cyberattack capabilities, reducing the time required to exploit vulnerabilities, compromise data and build ransomware, said Donald Chamberlain, COO and assistant

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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 15, 2025

30, 2024, shortly after introducing its first information security policy. There are government entities that do not like engaging with vendors, said Nicolle Rosecrans, Arapahoe County manager of information security and compliance, during the 2024 StateRAMP Cyber Summit. Arapahoe County, Colo.,

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

MARCH 6, 2025

Congress is increasingly focused on emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, and scientific discoveries that could reshape medicine, computing, and space exploration. Our nations leaders have also proposed legislation on how to balance.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2024

For more information, please contact Satelliteresiliencyforoutposts@amazon.com. To learn more about how AWS can support your organization’s resiliency requirements, please visit the AWS Cloud Resilience homepage.

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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 22, 2025

State and local government cyber leaders were in shock as they learned that the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Centers budget was being cut in half and its longer-term future was in doubt.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 3, 2025

Click the banner below for information about cyber resilience strategies. Synthetic full backups offer a more efficient alternative that demands less human effort and puts less load on the production system. This gives state and local IT teams a better way to protect their systems.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

Real-time data access is particularly vital for priority responses, where timely information can make the difference in critical situations. Its equally important for policy compliance, ensuring decisions are based on the latest information, and for resource allocation, helping agencies efficiently direct resources where theyre needed most.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

To overcome technical challenges, public sector leaders can connect with experts in our AWS Generative AI Innovation Center or take advantage of our AI Service Cards , a single place to find information on best practices for AI.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

JANUARY 22, 2025

Whether youre sending an email, paying a bill online, or logging in to a credit card or bank accountwebsites and many more systems rely on cryptography to keep your information safe. But emerging quantum computer technologies could allow.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 13, 2025

Agentic AI AI systems that act autonomously to access and synthesize relevant information is poised to positively impact government agencies ability to deliver quality citizen services efficiently. Lets explore agentic AI, its benefits and how implementing it on-premises can help with data control and security.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 19, 2025

During a 2025 IT forecast in January, Doug Robinson, executive director of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers, confirmed that generative artificial intelligence will be the most impactful emerging technology for state CIOs over the next several years.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For example, agencies stood up new solutions, augmented their epidemiologic data with other data sources, or looked to their local Health information Exchange (HIE) for support. Agencies, community leaders, and health professionals look to lessons learned and best practices from the COVID-19 pandemic as a starting point.

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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 25, 2025

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) also identifies using chatbots to support citizen services as a top generative AI use case for state governments. About half of all states are using artificial intelligence for chatbots, according to a 2024 survey by the National Association of State Technology Directors.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Worst still, critical information, from course changes to school closure announcements, often failed to reach the colleges 140,000 credit and non-credit students in a timely manner. If a student had called before, their contact information automatically populated, allowing agents to focus entirely on addressing the students needs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Unlike floods, droughts develop slowly, allowing decision-makers to anticipate and respond effectively through early drought information systems that use dynamic modeling and real-time data. First, they need access to information on how to effectively use these technologies.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

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. Unlocking this data requires significant work due to the requirements for data entry, validation, and proper routing and categorization of the information.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Click the banner for information for insights about If approached responsibly, compliantly and strategically, AI can be used in disease surveillance, fighting misinformation, creating personalized treatment plans, fraud detection, cybersecurity and much more.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Each year across the United States, new government policies take effect that impact the lives of millions of people, however, those policies are only as good as the data that informs them. Too often, policymakers lack access to relevant data that could better inform the development of these new policies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2024

If there is anyone who knows how to consider multiple viewpoints to make informed decisions that directly assist in mission outcomes, its Ash. Im Sarah Storelli, senior global marketing leader for WWPS at AWS, and Im on a quest to discover the people behind innovations across industries.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

million Americans with visual impairments face barriers accessing critical government information. This automated process maintains document privacy, while giving visually impaired citizens independent access to important information. Equal access to public communications is both a legal requirement and essential service.

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Next City

MAY 26, 2023

Tool was designed to help low-wage, immigrant workers seek economic justice by making wage theft claims and gathering data to inform activism. The ¡Reclamo!

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers recently polled its members as to their top priorities this year, and data management placed high on their list. But state and local governments aren’t the only national enterprise…

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Careers in Government

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Creating a secure work environment is crucial for government employees who handle sensitive information remotely. The post Remote Work Risks: How Government Employees Can Stay Secure appeared first on Careers in Government.

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2023

For example, state and local governments have become enthusiastic about putting as much information as possible online, but this is often siloed based on department or government level. Here are answers to some common questions. Can AI improve citizen services? AI absolutely is a valuable tool.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers recently released its State CIO Top 10 Policy and Technology Priorities for 2023, and cybersecurity and risk management are a top focus this year. Many information security organizations that perform penetration tests will have a tactical report for assumed breach posture…

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

To mitigate risk and protect sensitive information, DDC recommends that every member of a campaign team — including volunteers, organizers, and senior staff — use encrypted messaging. New this year, AWS Wickr provided an update to the service offering.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

I know how important it is that our nurseries, schools, colleges and universities are protected from online threats, and we stand ready to support settings that are victims of cybercrime said Martin Sivorn, Chief Information Security Officer at the Department for Education (DfE).

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Some data, such as information that includes citizens’ Social Security numbers, is too sensitive to quickly trust its care to others. But the inability to share data in siloed systems undercuts the effectiveness of government decision-making, creating an occasional dilemma as to how officials can be kept informed effectively.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

They enable rapid document classification and information extraction, which means easier application filing for the applicant and more efficient application reviewing for the immigration officer. The LLM processes each document, extracting necessary information based on the prompt, and provides a summary of the processed documents.

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2025

Click the banner for information about managed services that can fill staff shortages. 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.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Where visible, these strong relationships informed StateTech's list of 30 State and Local Government IT Influencers Worth a Follow in 2023. As state and local governments charge out of the days of the pandemic, leading IT officials are bursting with transformative initiatives that are reshaping the public sector technology landscape.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

Having worked on DPI initiatives during my tenure at Sri Lankas Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA), Ive witnessed first-hand the potential of DPI to address critical national challenges. This helped address data-security and compliance concerns, including the safeguarding of personally identifiable information (PII).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

Information on hosting workloads in AWS GovCloud (US) is available on this webpage. Alternatively, the Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer (NLB) also support TLS policies that use FIPS 140-3 certified cryptographic modules to protect sensitive information. In this post, we will explain how some U.S.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The emerging data management design known as data fabric allows agencies to link disparate information repositories. At the same time, human workers in government agencies still need to be able to sift through, parse and present data to inform policymaking. And cloud-based tools can help governments automate data analysis.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 22, 2025

Everyday frustrations included hours spent redacting personally identifiable information from evidence submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) as well as collating and analyzing data to build a case. Humans set the parameters for the redaction tool, specifying what information it is to detect and redact.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

During last year’s annual meeting of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers, the association released a report, Capitals in the Cloud Part II: Changing the Cloud Conversation. We’ve seen the cloud adoption conversation go from cloud-first to cloud-smart and now to cloud modernization.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The following sections provide detailed information on each stage, helping you understand the deployment process and prepare effectively. During this stage, we work with you to understand your use case for the MDC and gather site information using the site preparation questionnaire. Contact form in the AWS Management Console.

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