AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Greg Herrmann
Greg Herrmann is a senior partner security strategist at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Greg has worked in the security and compliance field for over 17 years supporting both classified and unclassified workloads for US Federal and Department of Defense (DoD) customers, and has worked at AWS for over 5 years. Greg now maintains the role of senior security partner strategist for the ATO on AWS Program, working with AWS Partners and customers to accelerate and simplify security and compliance processes as well as expanding these benefits to customers globally.
AWS Global Security and Compliance Acceleration initiative now supporting UK customers
Since its launch in June of 2019, the Authority to Operate on AWS (ATO on AWS) program has supported more than 300 US-based customers to meet their regulatory, security, and compliance requirements on AWS. To extend that support globally, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the Global Security and Compliance Acceleration (GSCA) initiative. The GSCA is now available to support customers in the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU).
Introducing Security Solutions for Government Workloads from AWS Partners
Government agencies and public sector organizations need rapidly deployable and dependable security solutions to support their missions. In response to this need, AWS launched the Security Solutions for Government Workloads initiative under the Authority to Operate (ATO) on AWS Program. This initiative works with AWS Public Sector Partners, members of the AWS Partner Network (APN), to develop security solutions designed to meet the unique security and compliance requirements of public sector workloads.