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Agencies Embrace Modern Workspace Management for Distributed Workforces

State Tech Magazine

In Massachusetts, a new comprehensive workspace management program has streamlined the deployment of computing devices to state employees, removing IT staff from the process entirely. It has been key in supporting the commonwealth’s move to remote and hybrid work.

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Simplify Your Knowledge Management System with Slab

Peak Proposals

Pretty much everything for-profit businesses need, including tools for knowledge management. Slab is a browser-based knowledge management tool that companies (and nonprofits and educational institutions) can use to create, organize, store, and share information. Slab is a knowledge management tool and wiki. Overview of Slab.

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2020 - An Unprecedented Year

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

2020 has been an unprecedented year in so many ways. Lastly, the politics of 2020 must be called unprecedented. 2020 has been an unprecedented year in so many ways. 2020 has been an unprecedented year in so many ways. Lastly, the politics of 2020 must be called unprecedented.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

From memory he recited to me a catalogue of omissions, oversights and failures in managing the risks. He went on to promulgate a law, the Coronavirus Act of March 2020, that is perhaps even more 'extreme', although mitigated by its incomprehensibility. This document is periodically updated and the latest edition came out in 2020.

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Why government must heed real-time data management trends

Open Access Government - Technology News

The impact of data usage during the COVID-19 pandemic was so significant that the UK government established a National Data Strategy in 2020, the aim of which was to use data to innovate, experiment, and drive a new era of growth. Government data is maintained through protective security policies and risk management centrally and locally.

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Strong Asset Management Is a Must for Successful Continuous Monitoring

State Tech Magazine

In 2021, 66 percent of organizations were hit by a ransomware attack, up from 37 percent in 2020,” according to Sophos. Criminals took advantage of digital transformation and the move to remote work during the pandemic to launch attacks on all types of organizations, including state and local governments.

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Wesco CEO John Engel on beating the odds with a merger of equals

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Since merging with Anixter in 2020, Wesco has integrated the best of both, delivered stellar performance, and strategically invested in big data to capture the next wave of value creation.