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CYBERSECURITY – Commercial cloud computing platforms provide a complete set of computing, security, governance and compliance services that are supported by standardized and externally certified processes and procedures. AWS has invested in obtaining several widely used accreditations such as FedRAMP, SOC-2, ISO 27001 and many more.
Further, cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) have strong management and operations processes to help protect digital assets and allow organizations to innovate. All these investments make it easier for public sector and regulated markets to leverage these existing services to improve the security posture rapidly.
Large US government agencies – including US Treasury, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), GSA and NASA, among others – have successfully implemented transformation programs based on accredited cloud services. State agencies like the District of Columbia’s Health Benefits Exchanges (DC-HBX) have also adopted cloud-based digital transformation services to not only deliver health benefits insurance services to citizens of their state, but also pioneered a shared services delivery model with other states such as the State of Massachusetts to deliver efficiencies.
All these programs have some common patterns and approaches that are essential for public agencies looking to transform and modernize through cloud technologies. Any cloud initiative must have clearly defined goals and objectives. Public sector organizations have an urgent need to fill their security backlog and continue to deliver citizen facing services with scarce resources and limited budgets. These factors make cloud-based solutions an ideal transformation platform.
Establish a digital transformation tiger team
Given the complexity and paradigm change, it is critical to establish a digital transformation office staffed with motivated and qualified experts with hands-on delivery experience. Some of the more successful examples of such organizations include GSA’s 18F, Treasury’s Treasury Digital Service, and Defense Digital Service (DDS) amongst others.
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