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How to Take Some of the Hard Work out of Cloud Security

GovLoop

One of the most time-consuming and painstaking aspects of cybersecurity, both on-prem and in the cloud, is configuration management. Configuration management is critical because many products come with default settings that do not provide adequate security. Secure From the Start. Standards are the starting point.

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Cyber security threats on the rise: how should organisations react

Open Access Government - Technology News

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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How the cloud helps scale innovation in K12 and primary education

AWS Public Sector Blog

While there is no shortage of innovation in the K12 sector, the inability to scale innovation stands out as one of the most common roadblocks to transformation across the vast and diverse K12 population—including students, teachers, and administrators. Coats hopes to take his API instances serverless using AWS Lambda with Amazon API Gateway.

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How to protect the Active Directory from cyber attacks

Open Access Government - Technology News

Guido Grillenmeier joined Semperis one and a half years ago and currently works as a Chief Technologist. He helps to provide security support for some of the largest enterprise customers and governments. Dan Bowdery also works at Semperis. So, if AD is not there, people cannot work. What is Active Directory?

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Help Procurement Keep Pace with Technology

GovLoop

Especially as governments move more functions to the cloud, traditional procurement systems can be slow and inefficient. Where once both hardware and software could be budgeted as one-time purchases, cloud-based solutions require ongoing contracts that need a maintenance-style budget. Take Advantage of Modernization.

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Sharing Lessons Learned from Microsoft’s Joint Surveillance Audit

Microsoft Public Sector

Justin Orcutt: Microsoft, Aerospace and Commercial Defense Team Matt McKenna: Microsoft, Principal PM, Digital Security and Resiliency Services Justin: Let’s start from the beginning. How did we even end up doing a DIBCAC Assessment? Justin: So how did the audit start? When given the opportunity we took it.

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January 2023 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

Newsworthy Highlights What’s New in Microsoft Teams | December 2022 These features currently available to Microsoft’s commercial customers in multi-tenant cloud environments are now rolling out to our customers in US Government Community Cloud (GCC), US Government Community Cloud High (GCC-High), and/or United States Department of Defense (DoD).