Microsoft Public Sector

JUNE 20, 2023

Microsoft 365 Government Adoption Resources Empowering US public sector organizations to transition to Microsoft 365 What’s New in Microsoft Teams | May 2023 We have a great line-up of new features to announce. When this will happen: GA: Rollout will begin in early June 2023 and is expected to be complete by mid-June 2023.

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Microsoft Public Sector

AUGUST 21, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights New Insider Risk Management features in general availability Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of more than 25 features for government and commercial customers. When this will happen: We will begin rolling out this change in mid-August 2023 and expect to complete by late March 2024.

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Super Library Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This is the third installment in my series on social media best practices for libraries in 2023. The TikTok algorithm for 2023. They can toggle between Following , which shows them content from the accounts they follow, and For You , which shows content based on an algorithm. Use a TikTok Pro Account.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JULY 20, 2023

Microsoft To Do web app launching for GCC High and DoD users Microsoft To Do is a task management tool that helps you stay productive, manage your day, and collaborate with your colleagues. See Manage bookmarks for more information. Microsoft Search allows a search administrator to import promoted results as Bookmarks.

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Microsoft Public Sector

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights Microsoft 365 Government price updates - into effect March 1st 2023 On August 2021 we announced an update to our pricing for Microsoft 365 (which applies to all commercial customers: Enterprise, US Government, and Business). For more information, please visit this page. Thank you for your patience.

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Microsoft Public Sector

APRIL 20, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights What’s New in Microsoft Teams at Enterprise Connect 2023 SIP Gateway is now available for Government Community Cloud customers to enable core Teams calling functionality on legacy devices. A premium version of this feature is offered as part of Microsoft Syntex - SharePoint Advanced Management.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) made more than 140 announcements at re:Invent 2023. Take advantage of generative AI 2023 was a big year for generative AI at AWS. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service offering a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) to build generative AI applications. WorkSpaces, and WorkSpaces Web.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JANUARY 23, 2023

Co-organizers will not be able to pre-create or manage rooms ahead of meeting start, only during live meetings. We will be retiring the ‘Get Data’ page in Power BI as well as the ability to connect to files from personal OneDrive accounts. Manage Access: View and manage who has access to your files or documents.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MARCH 5, 2024

This translates to an average of 4,000 password attacks per second targeting Microsoft cloud identities [2023]”. Account Management It is obviously a great starting point to “a. Monitor(ing) the use of system accounts.” Disable system accounts” when they meet those criteria or modify the identities and/or privileges.

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Partnership for Public Service

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Honoring the 2023 Sammies winners Among this year’s honorees is our Federal Employee of the Year, Laura Cooper , who led a Defense Department team that organized a process enabling the U.S. Volcker Career Achievement Medalist Melissa Emrey-Arras Management Excellence category winners. Emerging Leaders category winners. 1 at 9 p.m.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Recent releases of powerful large language models demonstrate that AI technologies are advancing much faster than the standards, benchmarks, policy, governance, or accountability mechanisms necessary to keep them trustworthy. We did this as part of our work to develop the NIST Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

What do Amazon Web Services (AWS) public sector customers need to know about the State Risk and Authorization Management Program ( StateRAMP) and how can you use AWS to help meeting StateRAMP requirements? In June 2023, StateRAMP updated their security baselines to align with 800-53 revision 5 (R5). What is StateRAMP?

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Super Library Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Francesca’s interest in managing the library’s TikTok began during her interview. “I I remember asking if Saline County Library (SCL) had a TikTok account,” she said. I usually post them when I have an idea, and I get inspiration from other library TikTok accounts. Their response was no. I try to post 3-5 times a week.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In the Netherlands, 2,292 medicines were marked unavailable for at least two weeks in 2023, representing around 15 percent of all types, including drugs needed for cancer, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease. These affected medicines were out of stock for 107 days on average in 2023, compared to 91 days in 2022.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

They’re not easy to remember or manage, especially for state and local agencies that lack access to password managers or single sign-on technologies. Earlier this year, SpyCloud revealed that “12345” and “password” were still popular.gov email passwords in 2023. Passwords get a lot of hate, and most of it is warranted.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Pictured: The AWS 2023 Justice and Public Safety GovTech Accelerator cohort at Amazon’s HQ2 for Week Zero, a three-day onboarding event to kick off the accelerator. The program will culminate with the 2023 AWS GovTech Accelerator demo day at the State of GovTech conference on November 14. Austin, TX Revir Technologies, Inc.,

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AccessE11

JANUARY 2, 2024

This article will highlight some of the major changes that have began throughout 2023, with notable technology and policy leading the way. AccessE11 is proud to be at the forefront of modernizing the municipal space, ensuring we keep a focused approach on improving the citizen engagement and issue management process.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 17, 2024

By embracing a scalable approach through the use of Well-Architected templates and integrating these practices directly into the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool), NHS England markedly improved the efficiency and effectiveness of their cloud solution management.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Empowering individuals with ownership of their own data Starting in July 2023, hundreds of staff at the Homeless Outreach Program Integrated Care System ( HOPICS ) began using Kiip to store documents, complete forms and applications, and streamline communications with incoming customers.

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The CIO Council

OCTOBER 22, 2023

One consistent theme you’ll hear from NIST and other cybersecurity experts is how human psychology can be exploited by cyber criminals to compromise our accounts. Password managers, protected by one very strong, long password with MFA enabled, allow us to create unique passwords for each site without needing to memorize them all.

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Super Library Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This is the fourth installment in my series on social media best practices for libraries in 2023. ” and among the results was this video posted on the Cincinnati Library’s YouTube account. The YouTube algorithm for 2023. There is always something to learn from successful accounts. Then install it.

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GovLoop

MAY 25, 2023

Shadow IT — that is, technology that the IT department does not approve or manage — continues to be a bugaboo. Beginning in September 2023, software vendors must attest that they are using secure development practices identified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In a January 2023 report, the U.S.

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Partnership for Public Service

JANUARY 24, 2024

Among other findings, several alarming trends emerged in our work: Only 34% of respondents believe the federal government is accountable, while a significant 62% do not; and merely 21% agree that the federal government is transparent, with a strong majority, 70% disagreeing.

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Super Library Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The number of libraries that use Twitter/X for promotion fell an astounding 17 percentage points this year, according to the 2023 Super Library Marketing Survey. He’s reinstated numerous banned accounts and freely allows posts from climate deniers, anti-vaxxers, as well as antisemitic dog whistles. But you don’t need Twitter/X.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 26, 2024

This article, " ‘The EPA needs to humble itself’: why some US non-profits are turning down agency funds ," in the Guardian makes a good point that government grants come with a variety of requirements that often exceed the capacity of nonprofits to manage and comply with. That's the kind of assistance that often needs to be provided.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 16, 2024

However, with online crime totalling $8tn globally, the system seems broken In the UK, fraud is the most experienced crime, accounting for 40% of all crimes. In response, the UK Government released a strategy in 2023 with the aim of reducing fraud by 10%. The true number of such incidents is much higher.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 30, 2024

Many respondents offered their own major concerns: standardized organizational practices, unskillful management, “forever changing dialogue for processes,” lack of appreciation, lack of accountability, lack of support and recognition from supervisors, “too much work for the hours allotted,” lack of trust, and technology reluctance.

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GovLoop

MARCH 22, 2023

As Richard Breakiron, Commvault’s Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives for the Federal Sector, points out, agency and mission readiness and success are driven by “data readiness,” and today data is a “flow variable” and the challenge is managing the volume, velocity and variety of data for actionable insight.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Karen Johnson provides executive leadership for Administrative Services, Financial Management, and Information Technology at Covered California. There, she managed and directed day-to-day operations and formulated and implemented policies to achieve the department’s mission. Louis University.

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GovLoop

APRIL 22, 2024

“Agencies have had difficulty finding employees with such knowledge and may have to pay a premium for specialized staff or contractors,” according to a recent report on modernization from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). This is called technical debt. Department of Labor.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For the public sector, agencies (or companies) are typically managed centrally by the State, City, or County’s central IT team: Figure 1 The operations or central IT team manages the tenant on behalf of the hosted agencies. Administrative Units with RBAC scoping can help!

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

The 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (EO 14110) aims to promote the responsible use of AI while mitigating potential risks and ensuring the protection of civil rights and liberties.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

But Earp, city manager for Hutto, Texas, and a recipient of this year’s American City & County Exemplary Public Service award , believes the winding road to his current role is evidence that he’s where he’s supposed to be. Earp attends a Block Party Bash in Hutto, where he’s served as city manager since 2022.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

Leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) , CSS manages $6.4 million in total annual AWS run rate cost optimization by the end of 2023. Throughout the development, deployment, and operation of the CSP, the AWS account team and CSS collaborated in weekly operations calls, increasing in cadence during critical milestones.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JUNE 8, 2023

Artificial intelligence is booming across all industry sectors, from software development to supply chain management and the metaverse – here are some AI trends for 2023 15% of all UK businesses have adopted at least one type of AI technology, and despite economic headwinds, AI startups have attracted over £3 billion in investment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

On April 12, 2023, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Wideband Digital Intermediate Frequency (DigIF) for satellite operators using Software Defined Radios (SDRs) with AWS Ground Station. Please contact your AWS account team in case the contact doesn’t work as expected.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 22, 2024

They requested proposals for managed services that could maintain their current system while transitioning to a more cost-effective, nimble solution. Providing ongoing support and innovation On July 31, 2023, just over one year after LAUSD awarded Kokomo the new contract, LAUSD transferred its tracking and data systems to the Kokomo solution.

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