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Changes in the Ransomware Threat to State and Local Governments

State Tech Magazine

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. 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.

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Testimony of NYU Furman Center Senior Fellow Mark Willis Before the Rent Guidelines Board

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Willis, Senior Policy Fellow at the NYU Furman Center presented research findings at a hearing of the NYC Rent Guidelines Board , highlighting complicated trends in the city’s affordable housing stock since the passage of the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act (HSTPA) in 2019.

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Bahrain’s cloud-first success story

AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS launched the Bahrain Region in 2019, which enabled Bahraini organizations to store and process data locally and benefit from world-class cloud capabilities. For example, iGA launched Bahrain Open Data Portal in August 2023 in collaboration with OpenDataSoft company.

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AWS Partner Kokomo24/7 transforms Los Angeles Unified School District’s health data system in one year

AWS Public Sector Blog

Building on an established partnership with stackable functionality LAUSD IT services already trusted Kokomo because of the work the EdTech company had done to create the district’s Incident System Tracking Accountability Report (iSTAR) and Los Angeles Schools Anonymous Reporting (LASAR) applications that launched in 2019.

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PAA Announces Leadership Changes

Public Administration Associates

Dave Bretl , a PAA partner and Vice President since 2019, has assumed the role of interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Legal Counsel. Shawn Murphy, who has been a PAA Associate since 2023, is PAA’s new Secretary-Treasurer and has also become a partner.

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

million in total annual AWS run rate cost optimization by the end of 2023. In 2019, CSS released a major feature as part of go-live to support a 4-hour recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) of zero to support zero data loss requirements, using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) cross-Region replication.

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November 2023 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

Key points: Major: Retirement Timeline: October 2, 2023: Retirement announcement and customers can proactively set a property to block Business Connectivity services features within their tenant. October 30, 2023: Microsoft will begin blocking Business Connectivity Services features based on the tenant property set by the customer.