Category: Government

By Shaked Rotlevi, Technical Product Marketing Manager – Wiz By Faizan Mahmood, Global Partner Account Manager – AWS Wiz On May 12, 2021 President Biden released the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. The Executive Order aims to strengthen the Federal government’s cybersecurity posture and protect the nation’s critical infrastructure from cyber threats. Among […]

Achieving FedRAMP authorization is critical for cloud service providers serving government agencies. Orca Security’s cloud-native platform on AWS provides comprehensive coverage to help companies navigate the complexities of FedRAMP. By determining impact levels, deploying in FedRAMP-compliant AWS regions, leveraging approved services, implementing security controls, preparing for authorization, and enabling continuous monitoring, Orca and AWS streamline the journey to FedRAMP compliance.

Complying with FedRAMP poses challenges for DevOps teams, including slower deployment speeds, process overhead, and complex AWS GovCloud requirements. To optimize velocity while maintaining compliance, organizations can shift security controls left, automate workflows, and architect secure in-boundary pipelines. With the proper frameworks, teams can increase deployment frequency and reduce change failure rates in FedRAMP environments.

Many of the requirements for meeting and maintaining a secure environment can be met by using AWS FedRAMP-authorized regions and services, which can simplify and reduce costs of the process. Over 2,000 government agencies and other entities that provide services to government agencies are using AWS services today. Learn how Antivirus for Amazon S3 by Cloud Storage Security can be used to automate malware scanning for application workflows or data ingestion pipelines to achieve data security and compliance.

Workday helps government agencies streamline and standardize administrative processes, gain visibility across the organization, and adapt to changes quickly. Learn how Workday Enterprise Management Platform on AWS providers innovative features like scalability, high availability, seamless deployment with zero downtime on the cloud, flexible reporting, real-time monitoring capabilities, and a security and compliance offering tailored for public sector customers.

Software-as-a-service products have revolutionized private sector business operations in recent years, but despite the commercial sector’s demonstrated success with SaaS the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has been slow to adopt this new delivery model. Learn how the Game Warden platform, built by Second Front Systems, a DoD-compliant DevSecOps platform as a service that accelerates software delivery onto DoD networks while adhering to stringent cybersecurity controls.

In the public sector, organizations are ripe with opportunities to digitize their services and migrate from outdated on-premises systems to protect their data and better utilize it to make informed decisions. Learn how Baker Tilly Digital helped a government contractor develop a serverless procure-to-pay portal on AWS deployed in AWS GovCloud (US). The P2P portal helped automate vendor management, improve the pre-award capabilities, transform the purchase ordering system, and simplify invoicing.

A low-code software development platform with a robust ecosystem has proven invaluable for public sector agencies tasked with reinventing digital government for a new era. Learn how Mendix has enabled public sector customers to meet the rapid pace of innovation, and removed the barriers that come with traditional deployment models by using their low-code application development platform. Mendix is a Siemens business and a global leader in enterprise low-code.

Appian is a low-code software development platform for building applications and business processes with little to no coding, and Appian Government Cloud (AGC) accelerates timelines to go live by ensuring mission-critical applications’ underlying infrastructure and backend processes are secure. With AGC, learn how mission owners at the U.S Department of Defense can place their focus on the missions at hand, with the confidence their cloud workloads will be managed properly.

As part of the State of California’s larger technology vision, Riverside County wanted to deliver citizen-centric services through secure, effective, and innovative technology solutions. To reduce the risk of data breaches, the County needed to architect decentralized records management systems connected through a distributed network. This post discusses the County’s pilot solution using blockchain technology from AWS to enable any individual or organization to remotely validate the authenticity of a digital credential.