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Running government workloads securely at the edge

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Adelaide O'Brien. This is a guest blog article by International Data Corporation (IDC). With ongoing changes in today’s security landscape, coupled with the rapid pace of technology, organizations are continually evaluating technology options such as edge computing as strategic enablers for transforming existing workflows, processes, and operations. As government agencies incorporate more edge technology into their operations to help improve application performance and meet mission outcomes, they must be prepared and remain diligent in their approaches for securing data, applications, and devices, including adhering to evolving regulatory requirements. Edge computing moves data processing and ... Read More
Puppet and Government: Adopting infrastructure as code
Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; This blog is the last in a four-part series about how Puppet can help government agencies meet compliance and security requirements. Read the third post here.Government agencies are facing a rising need for changes to their IT infrastructure. This need is becoming even more urgent as they continue to migrate operations to the cloud. Leveraging modern cloud applications and resources within an existing legacy agency environment requires IT agility to maintain the balance of security while keeping pace with an agency’s mission. As the definition of the “traditional government workplace” continues to morph ... Read More
Puppet and Government: Maintaining compliance in complex hybrid cloud environments
Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; This blog is the third in a four-part series about how Puppet can help government agencies meet compliance and security requirements. Read the second post here.Government agency IT departments know that migrating applications to the cloud can improve efficiency, increase visibility, and reduce costs. They also recognize the value in keeping some operation resources on-premises. This shift to hybrid operations creates complexity and a need for government IT infrastructures to accommodate many different types of resources. But how can teams efficiently manage a complex hybrid infrastructure while ensuring their agencies’ Zero Trust security ... Read More
Puppet and Government: DevSecOps in government environments
Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; DevSecOps in government environmentsThis blog is the second in a four-part series about how Puppet can help government agencies meet compliance and security requirements. Read the first post here. Zero Trust is a strategy created to combat system intrusions through a “never trust, always verify” model. DevSecOps is a collaborative software development strategy that integrates development, security, and operations practices into a continuously evolving lifecycle. Both methodologies are currently being adopted by government agencies today for different (but complementary) reasons. Learn how to leverage DevSecOps as part of your Zero Trust approach to ... Read More
Puppet and Government: Achieving Zero Trust adoption and mission success at the same time
Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Achieving Zero Trust adoption and mission success at the same timeThis blog is the first in a four-part series about how Puppet can help government agencies meet compliance and security requirements. Government agencies have been working diligently to comply with the 2021 Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. The Executive Order (EO) addresses cybersecurity issues by imposing a new series of federal-wide Zero Trust mandates. Agencies were required to submit their plan development and cloud migration path reporting by July and August of 2021, with more deadlines on the horizon. Driving these ... Read More
5 best practices to create a cloud cost allocation strategy for government customers

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Jason Moldan. Cloud computing can introduce a radical shift in how public sector customers obtain, budget, and pay for technology. But before building in the cloud, government agencies need to determine how they want to allocate cloud costs in accordance with their jurisdictions’ transparency requirements and legislative oversight. A cloud cost allocation strategy–deciding how to distribute cloud costs to the users or beneficiaries of those incurred costs in a pre-defined way—is a foundational part of any agency’s cloud journey. Government agencies that use Amazon Web Services (AWS) can track, report, and allocate costs on ... Read More
Accelerate Your Mission at Cloudera Government Forum ’22
Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Rob Carey. Posted in Business | April 07, 2022 2 min read As a public sector leader, you don’t need the value of data explained to you. You already understand its importance to your vital missions. The challenge, rather, lies in locating data, streaming it, enriching it, and serving it, and then running analytics to maximize the value of the data that agencies already have—and the massive amount of new data generated every day from a wide variety of structured and unstructured sources. Simply collecting data isn’t enough anymore: government agencies must harness the value of ... Read More
R Shiny in Government – Top 7 Dashboards You Should See
Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Dario Radečić. R Shiny allows developers to write production-ready dashboards in no time, and for any use case. It’s not rare to find a vast number of dashboards in business-related domains, such as sales and marketing, but the possibilities don’t end there. Today we bring you seven curated examples of R Shiny in government. These dashboards are used for anything from analyzing living costs to using AI for disaster recovery. Government agencies and municipalities don’t always have the most well-funded tech departments. Further, they can’t afford to spend countless hours going over hundreds of report pages. Dashboards ... Read More
Six best practices for government leaders to plan for success with digital ID

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: María Inés Baqué. Governments are increasingly adopting digital ID systems to improve inclusion and accessibility to public services. The AWS Institute, a global executive education program from Amazon Web Services (AWS) for public sector leaders to accelerate digital transformation, has written on the benefits of digital ID systems powered by the cloud and the design elements of successful digital ID system in a series based on a report with the Access Partnership. But there is a third element to successful government modernization through digital ID programs. Leaders must communicate well to navigate relationships with ... Read More
15. Student Loans: a Subprime Time-bomb for the US Government?
Feed: Top Blog Posts. Author: NYC Data Science Academy. Contributed by Spencer James Stebbins. He takes the NYC Data Science Academy 12 week full time Data Science Bootcamp program from July 5th to September 22nd, 2016. This post is based on their first class project – the Exploratory Data Analysis Visualization Project, due on the 2nd week of the program. You can find the original article here.There is overwhelming concern among politicians, professionals, and students that the current student loan market may be the next soaring hot air ballon primed to run out of gas and collapse. For students facing rising tuition costs, increased competition among ... Read More
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