State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Sean Hughes, Massachusetts assistant secretary for technology, security and operations, estimated the commonwealth is about halfway through migrating its employees into a single-sign-on portal where they can access all required government…

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Many organizations use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enhance their security posture and improve resilience. In this post, we discuss the AWS best practices for securing your data during the holiday season. After the holiday period, thoroughly review your processes for security monitoring and threat hunting.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2024

The Army needs to improve its IT asset management to complement its security operations and create a more robust environment for the modern warfighter, according to CDW Government technology experts. Asset management refers to the steering of hardware and software, including applications, through their lifecycles, from…

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 16, 2024

Given the vast number of cyber-enabled frauds in the UK, significant changes in the approach to cyber security are necessary to achieve this goal. Sapphire is a UK-owned and operated cyber security company. Cyber security awareness Security awareness is crucial in protecting against fraud and cyber attacks.

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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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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For the public sector, agencies (or companies) are typically managed centrally by the State, City, or County’s central IT team: Figure 1 The operations or central IT team manages the tenant on behalf of the hosted agencies. For example, only central IT typically has access to the Microsoft Purview portal.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In Massachusetts, a new comprehensive workspace management program has streamlined the deployment of computing devices to state employees, removing IT staff from the process entirely. It has been key in supporting the commonwealth’s move to remote and hybrid work.

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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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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Following five success factors can help create a winning strategy for embedding security into the new-product life cycle.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Organisations face the growing risk of becoming victims of cyber security threats – what can they do to avoid them? Organisations face the growing risk of becoming victims of cyber security threats and this is no surprise as it is a highly lucrative enterprise for cybercriminals. It’s very easy to ignore them until it’s too late.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

From smart buildings to environmental monitoring, IoT devices are everywhere, but this widespread adoption is raising new challenges, particularly in securing and managing the devices remotely IoT devices offer unparalleled benefits, extending capabilities in many sectors. Another concern is scalability.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JUNE 28, 2024

A cyber security breach can have far-reaching consequences, including compromised national security, disrupted public services, financial losses, and a decline in citizen trust. It’s OK as an individual and even as an organisation to be confused about cyber security.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As well as the billions of pounds we spend each year on defensive technologies, the skills of people charged with implementing and managing those tools to protect us is something that is arguably even more critical in the defence against growing criminal and nation-state cyber capabilities. This seems unlikely.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 27, 2023

What are the top 3 trends that will trigger organizations to adopt a critical event management plan in 2023? Gartner reveals all Over the past year, organizations have been focused on managing the rise of home and hybrid workforces and adapting to the many changes resulting from the global pandemic. million to $4.2

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 10, 2024

Mission operation centers (MOC) have been a critical element of humanity venturing into space, ranging from journeying to the moon in the 1960s all the way to present day and launching new satellite constellations. Today’s satellite constellation operators find that, as their constellations grow, the complexity of their MOC increases.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2023

Without network management tools, federal IT environments could quickly grow unwieldy. These tools give administrators the ability to maintain, monitor and manage the network to ensure it remains reliable as new applications and services are added.

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GovLoop

JUNE 30, 2023

There are a lot of points of entry now,” said Raghurama Pantula, Director of Information Security for Karsun Solutions, a modernization company that applies innovative approaches to help achieve agency missions. “So, The control plane is responsible for managing the configuration of the data plane proxies.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 23, 2023

The global pool of security professionals needs to grow 65% to defend organisations’ critical assets – so how can we plug the cybersecurity skills gap? Indeed, (ISC)² estimates that the global pool of security professionals needs to grow 65% to defend organisations’ critical assets effectively.

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FedTech Magazine

JULY 17, 2023

Cyberattacks against government agencies have risen significantly since the introduction of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Binding Operational Directive 22-01. Such attacks increased 95 percent in the second half of 2022 compared with the same time period in 2021, according to CloudSEK.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 17, 2024

Securing this data and ensuring appropriate access for users, devices, and systems are essential to protecting citizens from cyberattacks, such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. AWS IoT lets customers onboard their IoT devices at scale and assists in managing them throughout their lifecycle. AWS IoT supports X.509

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2024

There were 37,000 attempts in four days to log in to our firewall,” Mike Cypert, city manager of Hale Center, told the Associated Press. The city defeated the attack by disconnecting the water system’s operational technology (OT) from the internet.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 22, 2024

As councils face increasing pressure to deliver efficient, secure services, many are turning to the cloud As local authorities seek to integrate digital systems into their day-to-day operations, many are making the shift from on-site systems to cloud-based platforms.

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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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GovLoop

JUNE 13, 2023

Let’s say an agency’s security operations center wants to use analytics to improve its ability to detect and respond to threats throughout its environment. Legacy data management solutions simply were not designed with that kind of scenario in mind, leaving data specialists stuck with laborious manual processes.

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Government Technology Insider

AUGUST 5, 2024

As transportation systems become more connected, the vast amount of information they possess can provide new levels of intelligence to enhance operations and constituent service. But as cyber threats grow more prominent and DOTs adopt technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), securing digital infrastructure has become a necessity.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

APRIL 3, 2023

Controlling public safety is a major concern of governments, and that’s where public safety technology comes in The legitimacy that results from managing a crisis has an instant and lasting impact on public opinion and the daily lives of citizens. This means that public safety is both a risk and an opportunity.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 1, 2024

After migration, Renaissance realized performance, scalability, and security improvements, all while reducing cloud spend by 30 percent. The consolidation also improved staff productivity by reducing the cognitive load to manage multiple clouds. This post describes the Renaissance migration journey from March to October 2023.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

You probably don’t wake up thinking about cyber security, or whether you may fall for a phishing attack. Read on to explore the world of cyber security and phishing, while learning simple and effective ways to protect your identity online. Consider using a reliable password manager to keep track of your credentials.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Today, government IT teams find themselves navigating a labyrinth of security controls, compliance requirements, and risk management practices. As a result, by embracing a multi-cloud strategy, government agencies must also be prepared to address a series of operational and security challenges.

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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

JUNE 14, 2023

Agencies looking for solutions to support their security operations centers will likely come across three proven tactics that can help governments stay secure and protect citizen data: Security information and event management (SIEM) Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) Extended detection and response (XDR) Each of these centralized (..)

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 1, 2024

While security cameras have been around for decades, the advent of analytics capable of quickly and accurately recognizing colors, categorizing vehicles, or reading license plates has changed the game significantly. This allows a smaller number of officers to cover a wide area more effectively, providing the necessary level of security.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The integration of AI into defense operations promises unprecedented efficiency, operational superiority, and strategic advantages. This blog explores four compelling examples of how AI can revolutionize defense contractors' operations and highlights key insights from the US Department of Defense AI Adoption Strategy.

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Google Public Sector

APRIL 9, 2024

This authorization underscores Google Public Sector's commitment to empowering government agencies with secure, cutting-edge technology. GDC Hosted is an air-gapped cloud solution built specifically for stringent security requirements, allowing U.S. Next-gen cloud services for secure missions GDC Hosted enables U.S.

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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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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 27, 2024

Cloud service providers must ensure they can integrate new federal security and privacy controls into their processes if they want to continue doing business with agencies. Revision 5 includes…

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 16, 2024

These attacks target a broad range of industries and organizations, from water security to rural health care , via external targeting and insider threats. Today at the Google Public Sector Summit, we’re proud to unveil several new announcements around our security solutions. Read about all of the details below.

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