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Q&A: Coral Gables, Fla., CIO Raimundo Rodulfo Shares Smart City Initiatives

State Tech Magazine

The city has won numerous accolades recently, including the 2022 IEEE Smart Cities Jury Award, and was named one of StateTech’s Smart Cities to Watch in 2020. Coral Gables also recently won the Smart City Innovation Excellence Award from the Smart Cities Council. Rodulfo has a background in engineering in the telecommunications…

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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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Government Ransomware Attacks Are Down, but Reports Cite Insufficient Data

State Tech Magazine

In 2020, for instance, 45 percent of ransomware attacks centered on municipalities, according to Barracuda Networks research. New data from the Institute for Security and Technology’s Ransomware Task Force, however, seems to suggest fewer incidents have arisen in 2022.

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Agencies Win Big with Specific Applications of Staff Augmentation

State Tech Magazine

Reliance on managed security providers increased from 2020 to 2022, Deloitte and NASCIO note. In 2020, 51 percent of survey respondents said they contracted with a managed security service provider; in 2022, the figure was 78 percent.…

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AWS investment in South Africa results in economic ripple effect

AWS Public Sector Blog

billion through 2022 to meet customer demand for cloud computing services, according to a new economic impact study (EIS) from AWS. Since then, AWS has invested ZAR 15.6 The new EIS states that AWS plans to invest ZAR 30.4 billion more in its South African cloud infrastructure by 2029. The new EIS states that AWS plans to invest ZAR 30.4

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Calculating Success Rates for the Housing Choice Voucher Program using HUD Administrative Data

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The study, “ Success Rates in the Housing Choice Voucher Program: 2018-2022 ,” by the NYU Furman Center’s Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O’Regan, and Sarah Strochak, estimates success rates for recipients of housing choice vouchers nationally and by local public housing agencies between 2018-2022.

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Future of Government Awards 2023 celebrate use of technology to transform people’s lives

AWS Public Sector Blog

Entries more than doubled from the inaugural 2022 edition, with 334 nominations from 63 countries across six continents. She served as executive director from its formation until 2020. This diversity is apparent in the awardees who represent a broad array of sectors from healthcare to public service to education to agriculture.