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Q&A: New Orleans CIO Kimberly LaGrue Discusses Cyber Resilience

State Tech Magazine

Mayor Mitch Landrieu appointed her as acting CIO in 2017, and Mayor LaToya Cantrell made her appointment to CIO permanent in 2018. Shortly before Christmas in 2019, New Orleans suffered a significant ransomware attack, and LaGrue led the city’s recovery and subsequent IT modernization efforts.

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Changes in the Ransomware Threat to State and Local Governments

State Tech Magazine

While the report found that attacks were down in 2022, ransomware targets still reported very large number of attacks compared to levels in 2018, 2019 and 2020. According to SonicWall’s 2023 Cyber Threat Report, ransomware has “been on a tear” for the past few years, growing 105 percent year over year in 2021.

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How America’s Airports Defend Against Cyberthreats

State Tech Magazine

Another flaw in airline reservation systems, discovered in 2019, affected half of world carriers but was patched before it could be exploited. British Airways was hit by a breach in 2018 that affected 300,000 to 500,… The breach included the loss of customers’ credit card data and personal information.

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Why another shutdown would be bad for the U.S. military

Partnership for Public Service

22, 2018, until Jan. 25, 2019—shows that when our government closes up shop, both the economy and the ability of agencies to serve the public suffers. Our assessment of the most recent shutdown —which lasted a historic 35 days from Dec.

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S7 Episode 01: Introduction to the 2019 State of the Naperville Park District Address

ParkTalk podcast

An introduction to the podcast’s theme of “connecting the community” in addition to a brief look back at 2018 and a look forward to 2019 sets the stage for this podcast series.

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Out with the old: Why traditional tech training methods need upgrading

Open Access Government - Technology News

In 2019/20, the overwhelming majority (84.9%) of all learners starting an apprenticeship were white; this was even with a 12.3% increase from 2018/19. And the number of BAME apprentices is falling; from 2018/19 to 2019/20, the number of starts by apprentices from BAME backgrounds fell by over 6,000.

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Shutdowns and continuing resolutions aren’t the answer of effective government

Partnership for Public Service

And since 1976, our government has shut down 21 times for at least a day, when Congress could not agree on appropriations or pass stopgap funding, including a partial government shutdown of 35 days in 2018-2019. Shutdowns are bad for the public and federal employees.