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Need to Improve CX? Low-code Automated Testing Can Help

GovLoop

Government agencies have a lot riding on improving their constituents’ customer experience (CX), and they understand the consequences. In other circumstances, manual testing teams may face unfamiliar new application breeds or be overwhelmed by DevOps teams’ fast development and deployment of software.

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Mapping the Cyber Threat Landscape

GovLoop

In the United States, the number of unfilled jobs stands at about 410,000, a 9% increase over 2021. As Fortune points out, these shortages are good news for cyber wages — and bad news for government agencies competing for talent. Another persistent problem: Agencies aren’t applying patches to known vulnerabilities.

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Empowering 1,000-plus partners: How the AWS Think Big for Small Business Program fuels public sector innovation

AWS Public Sector Blog

As government agencies seek to modernize their operations and deliver enhanced services to citizens, the role of small businesses becomes increasingly pivotal. In the intricate landscape of public sector procurement, the demand for innovation, efficiency, and reliability is paramount.

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Improving software security in the public sector

Open Access Government - Technology News

Cybersecurity has been at the top of the government agenda for a few years already. The UK government is a good example of a state actor recognising the need for imminent action in its cybersecurity. These numbers highlight the need to closely monitor the development process to prevent software with vulnerabilities from being released.

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Strengthen your security and optimize your resources with Microsoft 365 Government

Microsoft Public Sector

As citizens of local municipalities, cities, and states we rely on local government agencies every day to ensure we have critical services such as water, sewers, transportation, schools, health service, and emergency services. Ransomware was up 25% in 2021 year accordingly to Verizon’s data breach investigations report 2022.

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Habit #1: Automate (Thoughtfully)

GovLoop

Citizen and Immigration Services once used RPA to process two million backlogged records in just one hour, according to the 2021 State of Federal RPA Report. How Self-Help Helps Everyone Increasingly, government agencies are offering employees the same kind of self-service portals they provide for constituents. For example, U.S.

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Hermit Spyware: Who discovered it and why is it dangerous?

Open Access Government - Technology News

Hermit was discovered by one of our researchers in 2021 while hunting through these samples after they noticed a seemingly benign application with suspicious characteristics. are responsible for the development and deployment of Hermit. Are governments doing enough to protect people from these kinds of threats? Aurora S.p.A.

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