Next City

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

From an urbanist booknook to bike accessories, here are our gift recommendations for people who care about creating equitable cities.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 5, 2025

In 2022, the ALPHV Ransomware as a Service group attacked the city of Alexandria, La., with its malware. Two years later, LockBit ransomware bandits attacked Wichita, Kans. Once novel RaaS gangs are increasing attacks against local governments, according to a raft of new cybersecurity threat reports.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Cybersecurity chiefs across state governments struggle with insufficient staffing and difficulty obtaining visibility across the state’s enterprise, agreed officials in a panel of the Annual Conference of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers on Tuesday.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

In 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) Global Hackathon , part of a new collaboration with the International Research Centre in Artificial Intelligence, under the auspices of UNESCO.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Georgia Department of Revenue was operating on outdated infrastructure. As such, its CIO, Ananias Williams III, was eager to migrate his agency to the cloud. Williams believed modernizing ultimately would save his agency money.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

MARCH 2, 2023

For example, in May 2022, a racially-motivated individual shot and killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York. Domestic terrorism is on the rise. Several attacks have been widely reported in the last few years. A 2018 attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue left.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

re:Invent 2022 included a slew of new service and feature announcements, with something to offer for every industry. You can check out all of the top analytics announcements of AWS re:Invent 2022 here , but let’s discuss some of them as they relate to K12. Learn more about re:Invent 2022 and cloud for K12 education with AWS.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2022

For more insights from our coverage of NASCIO 2022, click here. State IT leaders explain what makes the security landscape challenging and how technology, processes and people can mitigate cyberthreats.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

MARCH 29, 2023

The federal government reported an estimated $247 billion in payment errors during the most recently completed fiscal year (FY 2022). These errors include overpayments or payments that should not have been made—for example, payments to deceased.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent returns to Las Vegas, Nevada for 2022, from November 28 through December 2. The session is Tuesday, November 29, 2022, from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (PST); reservations are required. Follow Jeff on Twitter or on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date with the latest news from re:Invent 2022.

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

In 2016, he entered the public sector, then joined the city of Naples in 2022, where he leads a small IT team focused on refreshing the citys technology infrastructure. He eventually transitioned into management and became an IBM executive supporting internal IT solutions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

On Tuesday, November 29 at re:Invent 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Max Peterson, vice president of Amazon Web Services (AWS) worldwide public sector, spoke about how the transformative power of the cloud is enabling organizations to move with speed and agility while making sure mission-critical workloads stay secure and protected.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Research from CrowdStrike shows that between July 2022 and June 2023, government was the second most frequently targeted industry by nation-state adversaries looking to compromise systems. State and local governments continue to be under siege.

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Local Government Government 346

State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2022

For more insights from our coverage of NASCIO 2022, click here. Georgia CTO Dmitry Kagansky and the Georgia Technology Authority are leading the state’s cloud migration project, which involves agencies of varying IT skill sets. He discusses the challenges faced during his cloud migration experience and the lessons learned along the way.

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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 27, 2023

At the National Association of State Chief Information Officers’ 2022 conference, a biennial report by NASCIO and Deloitte underscored hiring challenges faced by state governments as they strive to recruit qualified cybersecurity personnel. Speaking on a NASCIO 2022 panel, an IT official recalled how his state once…

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Education Government 284

State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For more insights from our coverage of NASCIO 2022, click here. StateRAMP creates an efficient way for cloud vendors to show state and local governments that their solutions meet required security standards to protect data. Arizona CIO J.R.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Empowering geospatial pioneers The Taylor Geospatial Institute, founded in 2022, is a pioneering entity designed to catalyze research, collaboration, and impact in the geospatial ecosystem. I can’t wait to see many new ideas and potentially startups spun out of this effort.” With a legacy investment from Andrew C.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Speaking Tuesday at the Fall 2022 Smart Cities Connect conference, city officials said they wanted those lights to provide some immediate smart city benefits while also serving as building blocks to support future benefits.

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Transportation 130

State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For more insights from our coverage of NASCIO 2022, click here. North Dakota CISO Michael Gregg and Nebraska CIO Ed Toner explain where their states are in the process and discuss best practices for implementing IAM solutions.

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Management Implementation Government 130

GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

AUGUST 15, 2023

While the federal workforce performs a wide range of duties, federal agencies also enter into contracts with outside companies and organizations. These contracts are used to provide products and services ranging from aircraft and software to food.

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Government 186

State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In 2022, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers released a report, “Application Modernization Is an Imperative for State Governments,” that identifies improved citizen services as a driver to modernize government applications.…

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Government 284

AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As 2022 draws to a close, public sector organizations have an opportunity to rethink what’s possible and for the upcoming year. Plus, the winners of the 2022 AWS Partner Awards will be announced on Monday, November 28—stay tuned for more. Tickets are limited, so register now for re:Invent 2022.

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

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.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

APRIL 11, 2023

While food prices generally increased about 2% in prior years, they increased about 11% from 2021 to 2022. Last year, U.S. consumers saw the largest annual increase in food prices since the 1980s. Inflation contributed to the increase. But there were.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Transportation ranked No. 1 for local government and saw a growth of nearly 9 percent year over…

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 23, 2023

New Jersey reportedly received 375 confirmed cyber incident reports in 2022. New Jersey joins a number of other states that have taken such a step in recent years. Virginia, for instance, passed similar legislation last year. And just last month, a ransomware attack locked up police files in Camden County, N.J.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In 2022, Seguin saw 1,501 direct phishing attempts — a 240 percent increase from the previous year — with many aimed at employees’ payroll data. Seguin uses software from KnowBe4 to launch the simulated…

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Security 307

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In stormy weather, survey respondents maintain realism about the global economy. While geopolitical conflicts and inflation remain top of mind, concerns about energy volatility predominate in Europe.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Respondents to the 2022 State of City and County IT National Survey by CompTIA’s Public Technology Institute earlier this year said that cybersecurity was a top priority, much as they did the year before. In 2022, 97 percent of officials identified cybersecurity as a top priority, up from an already high 88 percent in 2021.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In June 2022, Liana Bailey-Crimmins transitioned from CTO to CIO for the state of California, appointed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. As head of the California Department of Technology, Bailey-Crimmins has a large portfolio, and she has seized the opportunity to move forward with some of her state’s most ambitious initiatives.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 15, 2023

The National Centers for Environmental Information recently released the final update to its 2022 Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters report. Last year tied 2017 and 2011 for the third-highest number of billion-dollar disasters in the U.S., with the cost of 18 weather events totaling more than $175 billion.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Caught between a pandemic recovery and the “great resignation,” state and local IT leaders have expressed major concerns about hiring and retaining a capable IT workforce, according to a 2022 state CIO survey by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers.

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Local Government Government 287

State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

From August to December 2022, malicious actors made more than 134 million exploit attempts on IoT devices using a remote code execution flaw in the Realtek Jungle Software Development Kit. This risk is reflected in recent attack efforts.

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2023

5, 2022, the electricity went out in Moore County, N.C., On the night of Dec. leaving 45,000 residents reaching for flashlights and warm blankets. Gunfire hit two power substations, and authorities say the attacker knew where to aim to achieve maximum damage. This kind of attack raises a new level of threat,” said Gov.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

AUGUST 30, 2022

As students and teachers head back to the classroom this fall, they are likely to face a number of challenges that could impact the 2022-23 school year and learning outcomes. We’ve reported on these mounting challenges during the last couple years.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

On the New York City subway, crime rose 30 percent in 2022. In Washington, D.C., the Metro Transit Police Department reported a 125 percent increase in crime across its fleet of buses and trains. And in Los Angeles, crime occurring on transit properties rose 14 to 16 percent above pre-pandemic levels.

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Public Transportation Transportation Security 273

State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

These are some reasons why Austin was named a StateTech Smart City to Watch in 2022. The city is leveraging video analytics, sensors, hardware and software to address its most pressing transportation challenges.

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