Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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. Another step organisations can take is implementing more regular and varied scans.

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Google Public Sector

MAY 19, 2022

Cyber threats on the rise In 2021, the United States saw 40.5% of government website traffic being bad bots, according to research by cybersecurity firm Imperva 1. As cyber threats increase, government agencies need a way to safely let constituents access digital services. References: 1.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JUNE 29, 2023

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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GovLoop

DECEMBER 15, 2022

While familiar attack vectors like phishing remain among the most common, new threats are gaining traction: One industry survey found that supply chain attacks on open-source software increased 650% in 2021. ” To see more about how agencies are implementing cybersecurity, download the guide. Get the guide. Favorite.

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Government Technology Insider

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Chamber of Commerce Technology Engagement Center (C_TEC), in 2021 constituents spent 10.5 For example, in 2021 it took the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) more than eight months to process paper tax returns, whereas those filed electronically took mere days to process. billion hours filling out paper forms.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Open Access Government examines some aspects of science and technology policy in Japan, including cooperation and research promotion The Science and Technology Basic Plan in Japan, based on the Science and Technology Basic Law, was implemented in November 1995.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In 2021, DHS, like many agencies, was putting together a funding request to boost its cybersecurity work after the SolarWinds cyberattack. DHS highlighted UCMM in its “Integrated Strategy for High-Risk Management,” a biannual update to the Government Accountability Office.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 16, 2022

Enabled by cloud technology, digitized government agencies became better equipped to offer citizen and healthcare services, which helped improve and even save lives. Governments across APJ are taking bold steps to accelerate and simplify the process for public sector agencies to migrate to the cloud and leverage its benefits.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

AWS opened the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region in March 2011, and expanded the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region to a full Region in 2021 to give our customers in Japan even lower latency, and the ability to architect workloads for even greater fault tolerance, resiliency, and availability.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The AWS CIC Program provides an opportunity for nonprofits, education institutions, and government agencies to collaborate with other public sector organizations on their most pressing challenges, test new ideas with Amazon’s innovation process, and access the technology expertise of AWS. Reducing waste to make an environmental impact.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

Improving the customer experience (CX) has emerged as an imperative for government agencies following the 2021 Executive Order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in Government. Read more about AWS for governments: How US federal agencies can apply TIC 3.0

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Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We’ve already established that working group with the intent to identify potential standard solutions for these capabilities, and put forth a timeline for implementation. Next, we need to identify the maturity levels of individual agency IT functions and strategies, and evaluate which need additional maturation and support.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In the United States, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) received approximately 781,000 naturalization applications in fiscal year (FY) 2022 and completed nearly 1,076,000 applications—a 20 percent increase from FY 2021 and the highest in nearly 15 years. These challenges aren’t unique to naturalization.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

In 2021, US President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) that created the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program (SLCGP). But now is the time for state and local government agencies to act quickly and think strategically about their approach to building a resilient WOS strategy.

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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

As the privacy landscape continues to evolve, the way that government organizations respond to privacy regulations will be critical to maintaining their privacy posture and responding to constituent requests. Announcing New Teams Developer Portal for GCC. MC454797 — SharePoint and OneDrive deploying hard block for IE11 in January 2023.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

reached a 16-year high in 2021. Government agencies can leverage real-world data from their communities to improve public acceptance for automated enforcement or other mitigating actions. The statistics tell a parallel story—traffic fatalities in the U.S.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

Rather, the root cause has been the long-running blocking of reforms to reinstate price competition in housing and mortgage markets, which contrasts with other industries where such reforms have instead been successfully implemented in past decades. The FHFA, from its founding in 2008 to 2021, was an independent regulator.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

5 This is because the government has put considerable time and resources into developing lower downpayment alternatives that are still of acceptable credit quality to the government agencies that provide most mortgage credit today. In the last decade, the average FTHB has made a downpayment in the range of 6 to 7 percent.

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Bang the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In November 2021, the United States House of Representatives and Senate passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal of new federal investment in America’s infrastructure. The Need for Digital Community Engagement on Infrastructure Projects.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

After a similar experience in Mexico in 2016, I wanted to find a way to help developing countries implement affordable solutions to help predict and prepare for earthquakes, which is why I founded Grillo.”. This work will also help the government anticipate future risks. At the time, some 300,000 people were injured , and 1.5

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