Product security: Navigating regulations and customer expectations
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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Enhancing Security with CISA’s ScubaGear Baselines for M365
Microsoft Public Sector
OCTOBER 23, 2024
In today's digital age, securing an organization's information is more critical than ever. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) stood up a program called Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA). This includes best practices for configuration management, and monitoring of those environments.
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Enhancing Federal AI Safety: Responsible and Secure AI Sandbox
Microsoft Public Sector
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Who Should Read This This document will be beneficial to Federal Executives including Chief Information Officer, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Data Officer, AI Lead, AI Scientist, and Data Scientist, among others.
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Enable Data Sharing Without Hurting Security
GovLoop
JANUARY 12, 2024
As the public increasingly expects government digital experiences to reflect the smooth service of the private sector, agencies need to learn how to modernize without sacrificing security or usability in their applications. Analyzing financial records without revealing individual transaction details. Favorite
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Microsoft Copilot for Security and NIST 800-171: Access Control
Microsoft Public Sector
MARCH 5, 2024
Microsoft Copilot for Security and NIST 800-171: Access Control Microsoft Copilot for Security in Microsoft’s US Gov cloud offerings (Microsoft 365 GCC/GCC High and Azure Government) is currently unavailable and does not have an ETA for availability. Future updates will be published to the public roadmap here.
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Data Governance: What It Is and How It Enhances Data Management
State Tech Magazine
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
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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Microsoft Modern Work, Security, and Surface Evangelist to Speak at Upcoming Cloud Security Event
Microsoft Public Sector
AUGUST 31, 2023
Microsoft M odern Work, Security, Surface, AI Evangelist Slated to Speak at Upcoming Cloud Security and Compliance Event The Cloud Security and Compliance Series (CS2) , Summit 7's bi-annual conference series, is excited to announce Rodel Alejo , Director, Partner GTM Strategy Modern Work, Security, Surface and SMB Leader, as a CS2 speaker.
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Empowering the public sector with secure, governed generative AI experimentation
AWS Public Sector Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Here are some key considerations public sector organizations typically face when using generative AI systems: Data privacy and security – Public sector organizations often handle sensitive citizen and student data. Protecting the privacy and security of this information when using generative AI can be a significant challenge.
Continuous monitoring and governance: AWS best practices for keeping your data secure during the holidays
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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Combating cyber-enabled fraud: Sapphire’s proactive cyber security approach
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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European Health Data Space will enable health innovation through secure data sharing
AWS Public Sector Blog
MAY 28, 2024
In April 2024, the European Parliament adopted the proposed EHDS Regulation. 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.
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Securing and automating compliance in the public sector with AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Compliance is essential, but ensuring compliance in the cloud with various regulations and standards can be challenging, especially for public sector organizations. This post explains how you can use AWS tools and services to secure and automate compliance in your environment. AWS provides you with the necessary tools to achieve this.
??Microsoft releases CMMC guidance to raise the security and identity baseline for Defense Industry
Microsoft Public Sector
MAY 17, 2023
Azure AD is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service that helps your employees sign in and access resources in your organization. Azure AD also provides a range of security features that can help you protect your identity data and meet the CMMC requirements related to identity and access management.
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Harnessing the power of generative AI in AWS GovCloud
AWS Public Sector Blog
JANUARY 10, 2025
In an era of increasing regulatory scrutiny and data privacy requirements, organizations working in the public sector need robust, secure, and compliant solutions. We highlight use cases that demonstrate the potential of generative AI to enhance efficiency, automate workflows, and extract insightsall within a secure, compliant framework.
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US government agencies can communicate, collaborate securely with AWS Wickr
AWS Public Sector Blog
JANUARY 25, 2024
Consumer messaging apps and government While consumer messaging apps have become a convenient and easily accessible communications and collaboration option, they pose significant security risks. The problem is that consumer apps are designed for massive scale and extensibility, not necessarily for security.
Risk, resilience, and security – the three key functions of public safety technology
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. The platform is fully compliant with data privacy regulations, including GDPR.
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How the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS supports NCSC cloud security guidance
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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Getting drugs to market faster through better health data management on AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Data is a critical part of the new drug product life cycle management and journey. Data mesh to the rescue Data mesh is an architectural framework that enables organizations to redefine how they manage and utilize their data assets. By adopting a DaaP mindset, pharmaceutical companies can unlock a host of benefits.
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Could quantum computing security solve the data sovereignty challenge?
Open Access Government - Technology News
AUGUST 28, 2024
To protect against these super computers, new, secure data-storage solutions are being developed. With huge amounts of data stored outside national boundaries, it is becoming a critical data and national-security issue. So, if moving away from existing cloud-based providers is possible but inherently risky, what alternatives are there?
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From AI to Zero Trust: Google Cloud Security delivers comprehensive solutions for the public sector
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.
Aligning the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS with UK National Cyber Security Centre guidance
AWS Public Sector Blog
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) is a solution to automate the deployment of a secure cloud foundation on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With this solution, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment.
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Data regulation: Time for the healthcare sector to take its head-out-of-the-sand
Open Access Government - Technology News
JULY 19, 2024
The increasingly complex regulatory landscape and cyberattacks mean the healthcare sector has to confront the challenges of adhering to compliance Mark Roebuck, DPO and Founder of ProvePrivacy , explains that the healthcare sector is struggling to keep up with data regulation adherence demands and should look to internal Data Champions.
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What cybersecurity trends can we expect to see in 2023
Open Access Government - Technology News
JANUARY 9, 2023
This could lead to significant impact on vital business areas such as supply chains and manufacturing processes, and even allow threat actors to redirect financial payments and compromise highly sensitive and potentially heavily regulated data. Increased exploitation of connectedness between applications and systems. © Irina Kulikova.
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Enhancing Security with CISA’s ScubaGear Baselines for Microsoft 365
Microsoft Public Sector
OCTOBER 24, 2024
In today's digital age, securing an organization's information is more critical than ever. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) stood up a program called Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA). This includes best practices for configuration management, and monitoring of those environments.
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Build secure and scalable data platforms for the European Health Data Space (EHDS) with AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
OCTOBER 11, 2024
This post explains how healthcare organizations and partners can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build secure and scalable infrastructure for secondary usage of health data in alignment with the European Health Data Space (EHDS). This is the first of two posts describing an AWS reference architecture for EHDS.
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Streamlining digital transformation in German healthcare with AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
JULY 25, 2024
Ensuring the availability and security of critical applications is paramount. Fachklinikum Mainschleife manages around 30 critical applications, including electronic health records (EHRs), health information systems (HIS), picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), and practice management systems.
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Governments need to plan for the entire product lifecycle when they purchase technology today
American City & Country
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
When they buy technology, cities and counties will often face multiple issues, says Dean Cunningham , segment development manager, Public Safety at Axis Communications , a company that produces network cameras, access control systems, network audio devices and other IP networking solutions for physical security and video surveillance applications.
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Understanding Compliance Between Commercial, Government, DoD & Secret Offerings - Sept 2024 Update
Microsoft Public Sector
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
September 2024 Update Microsoft 365 Commercial + Azure Commercial FedRAMP in Azure The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services.
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How you can build a FedRAMP High-compliant network with Assured Workloads
Google Public Sector
JUNE 10, 2024
To help our customers securely deploy a network architecture that aligns with FedRAMP High, we have outlined several of our recommended best practices. Google Cloud's Assured Workloads enables public sector customers to run regulated FedRAMP High workloads on Google's public cloud infrastructure. By enforcing U.S. By enforcing U.S.
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Defending sovereign workloads: Google Distributed Cloud's air-gapped approach to Zero Trust
Google Public Sector
JULY 17, 2024
Public sector and government organizations require cloud solutions that can drive innovation and also adhere to strict sovereignty and security requirements. For years, security experts have warned of the risks of government overreliance on singular security controls.
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Using real-time data platforms to plug cybersecurity skills gap
Open Access Government - Technology News
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
A report by Ipsos for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport last May found that many UK businesses needed more staff with the technical, incident response, and governance skills needed to manage their cyber security. How common are security breaches in government?
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Migrate and modernize public sector applications using containers and serverless
AWS Public Sector Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Many public sector customers are interested in building secure, cost-effective, reliable, and highly performant applications. Building modern applications in AWS helps customers with increased innovation, speed, reliability, scalability, and security while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).
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Whole-of-state cybersecurity: Three procurement considerations for the public sector
AWS Public Sector Blog
APRIL 13, 2023
State and local government (SLG) agencies now have procurement questions to ask and decisions to make to maximize governance and security, simplify vendor management, and accelerate the overall process within a heavily regulated procurement environment.
AI for broader control speed and security
Open Access Government - Technology News
JANUARY 15, 2025
Ygor Lutz, Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder of Travizory Border Security, guides us through artificial intelligence-powered BorderTech, which balances the need for both speed and security As competition between travel destinations increases, simplifying immigration processes remains a priority.
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Your cloud, your way: Google Distributed Cloud Hosted is generally available
Google Public Sector
MARCH 21, 2023
GDC Hosted includes the hardware, software, local control plane, and operational tooling necessary to deploy, operate, scale, and secure a complete managed cloud. Customers can use built-in AI solutions , such as Translation API, Speech-to-Text, or optical character recognition (OCR)—all features of our Vertex AI managed ML platform.
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How healthcare organizations can fulfill compliance standards with AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
To modernize their healthcare infrastructure and improve data security, Bavarian hospital Fachklinikum Mainschleife , in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Kite Consult and consulting firm Oberender AG , undertook a massive initiative: the migration of their entire IT infrastructure to AWS.
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Protecting and Watermarking CAD files in Microsoft 365
Microsoft Public Sector
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
While IP comes in many common forms, such as documents and spreadsheets, but images and CAD files pose just as big a risk and are more difficult to protect with traditional security tools. Depending on the industry, different regulations and protection policies may also need to be applied to protect CAD files.
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UK councils: keeping local authorities and their residents safe and secure
Open Access Government - Technology News
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Indeed, a recent freedom of information (FoI) request from risk management firm Gallagher evaluated the scale of cybercrime against UK councils, with 161 local authorities sharing information. Cyber Security Data Protection Business Technology Privacy concept. And security has to be baked into that cloud-first position.
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An Open Source Platform Helps Achieve Zero-Trust Security
GovLoop
AUGUST 26, 2024
It’s imperative that these databases comply with the White House zero-trust security mandate. Yet implementing zero trust in legacy database management systems has proven to be problematic. “A A zero-trust model includes supporting tools such as identity and access management, data loss protection, analytics, network security, etc.,”
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Enhancing privacy and compliance with 3M bright screen privacy filters for laptops
Open Access Government - Technology News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Dave Williams, Materials Manager at 3M UK PLC, introduces 3M bright screen privacy filters for laptops that enhance on-screen privacy and compliance in the public sector In today’s digital age, the public sector is increasingly reliant on technology to deliver services efficiently and securely.
Building compliant healthcare solutions using Landing Zone Accelerator
AWS Public Sector Blog
JUNE 12, 2024
However, with these benefits come challenges to meet regulatory and compliance requirements surrounding data privacy and security. In addition, there are a multitude of regulations and compliance requirements to meet, adding another layer of complexity to the already intricate web of data privacy controls.
How national security and defence missions protect data with Trusted Secure Enclaves on AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
National security, defence, and law enforcement organizations want to use the cloud so they can share data and communicate in near-real time with their allies to counteract evolving threats to their citizens. AWS provides a global infrastructure and secure, scalable, mission-focused solutions. Watch this TSE animation.
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Protecting Your Personal Data
GovLoop
AUGUST 11, 2022
Each of us knows to closely guard our Social Security numbers, credit card accounts, fingerprints, phone numbers, health records and other personal information. Both speakers overviewed three areas — information management, culture and automation — that are most critical to securing our private details. Management.
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Protecting private and public sector organisations from cyberattacks
Open Access Government - Technology News
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
This will allow them to manage the risk adequately, providing them with a better understanding of their risk acceptance, risk mitigation, and risk transfer to a cyber insurance policy. Chief information security officers (CISOs) must ensure employees know common cyber threats to mitigate them. What makes good cyber resilience?
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