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Ransomware Attackers Seek Payday Through Disruption of Operations

State Tech Magazine

In 2019, the city of Lodi, Calif., was hit by ransomware attacks, which prompted CIO Benjamin Buecher to upgrade the city’s defenses. “A A few years back, we were hit by three attacks in three months by the same ransomware,” Buecher says in a Rubrik case study. The attack significantly impacted our municipal services.

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Bahrain’s cloud-first success story

AWS Public Sector Blog

Moving government workloads to the cloud has enhanced service delivery, increased agility, and reduced operational costs. Instead of capital expenditures on physical data centers, it has moved to an operational model that optimizes cloud spending. The government also revamped its procurement strategy.

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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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Continued innovation in CJIS compliance in both AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS US Commercial Regions

AWS Public Sector Blog

When AWS launched these CJIS Security compliance innovations in early 2019, we did so with reference to our AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customers can confidently deploy CJIS workloads in either AWS (US) region, while maintaining access to simple and powerful cloud native tools to manage the full lifecycle of sensitive data.

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

CSS built and now operates the largest and most advanced mortgage securitization platform in the US, supporting Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae’s 70 percent market share of the industry with flexibility, scalability, and security at its core. Thisarea also includes the ability of IT to roll out new and updated services faster.

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AWS investment in South Africa results in economic ripple effect

AWS Public Sector Blog

According to the EIS, AWS operations will add an estimated ZAR 68 billion more to South Africa’s GDP by 2029. Workforce now and in the future The jobs supported by AWS’s investment span sectors such as telecommunications, nonresidential construction, electricity generation, facilities maintenance, and data center operations.

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How EdIndia Foundation uses AWS to upskill teachers and increase student success

AWS Public Sector Blog

According to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) released in 2019 , 70 percent of students in grade three remain behind grade level, 57 percent of students in grade nine cannot solve a simple division problem, and almost 50 percent of students drop out of the school system before reaching tenth grade.

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