GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

MARCH 14, 2024

Each year, media outlets, businesses, and members of the public file hundreds of thousands of requests for government records on a wide range of topics—from consumer safety to national security. Their ability to access these records is protected.

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 10, 2022

When installed on a web page at the point of action, such as login, purchase, or account creation, reCAPTCHA Enterprise provides a frictionless user experience that allows legitimate users to proceed while fake users and bots are blocked. What is account defender?

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Partnership for Public Service

MARCH 27, 2024

Accountability can be a scary word for federal leaders. We often associate the word with audits and “gotcha” exercises, but accountability is so much more than that. In fact, government supervisors need to embrace and get comfortable with accountability if they want to be effective at leading people and achieving results.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Costco’s chief information and digital officer details how technology leadership is expanding—as businesses increasingly rely on technology.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The Federal Flexible Spending Account Program (FSAFEDS), administered by HealthEquity, Inc., FSAFEDS provides three account options to support the needs of employees and their families. All three work by automatically deducting money from each paycheck — before payroll taxes —and putting it into an account.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Cloud FinOps is a financial management discipline that creates accountability around cloud usage to help your agency successfully budget for this tech.

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Careers in Government

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Compassion and accountability aren’t mutually exclusive. In fact, compassion is all about “struggling with” people The post How To Stop Employee Drama with Compassionate Accountability appeared first on Careers in Government.

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Careers in Government

JUNE 12, 2023

Increasingly, accounting graduates are turning to governmental accounting careers to escape the stress of the public accounting industry. The post 7 Exciting Career Paths for Accountants in State, Local, and Federal Government appeared first on Careers in Government.

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Careers in Government

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The post How to Stop Employee Drama With Compassionate Accountability appeared first on Careers in Government. Coming down hard on employees or expecting them to fend for themselves when they complain is equally damaging.

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A Library Writer's Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Call for Book Chapter Proposals for Item Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives and Other Heritage and Memory Organizations Editors: Anna Chen, Rebecca Fenning Marschall, Molly McGuire, Nina Schneider, and Emily D.

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Super Library Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform has put accounts at risk. I’ll explain the threat and the four steps your library can take right now to reduce the chances your library’s account will be cloned or hacked. Show, Episode 167: This episode is a must-see for any library that posts on Twitter.

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Death and Taxes

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Accounting and financial reporting guidance for American Rescue Plan monies seems to be a never-ending soap opera with constant twists and turns. 33, Accounting and Financial Reporting for Nonexchange Transaction s. The post ARP Accounting and Financial Reporting in North Carolina appeared first on Death and Taxes.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

AUGUST 29, 2024

The racial wealth gap has proven to be as pernicious as it is persistent. While the wealth gap is smaller than it was in the 19th century, it remains at approximately 6 to 1 between White and Black Americans.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

One year ago, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation outlined five strategic objectives that signaled its priorities for the decade ahead. We examine the objectives and progress to date.

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The City Fix

MAY 18, 2020

In many cities, lockdowns have forced large numbers of people into an impossible dilemma: follow social distancing guidelines or be deprived of their livelihoods and basic services. Unlike most places, South Korea and its capital, Seoul, took a markedly different. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

JULY 28, 2022

Responsible for more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, action by cities is clearly crucial to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. An important part of this effort is developing local GHG inventories and climate action.

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Disaster Zone blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Their system for counting deaths is not working.

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GCN

AUGUST 17, 2022

The white paper from the University of California, Berkeley also called for regulators to appoint an ombudsman to investigate complaints and monitor issues with the technology.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We’ll also cover adding an additional account boundary for security purposes, and how customers can move their Direct Connect connection to that new account. Connecting a transit VIF with a Direct Connect gateway allows you to connect your on-premises environment to a Transit Gateway within an AWS account.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JANUARY 9, 2024

As US regulators consider a decision on open banking, account-to-account (A2A) payments face challenges in a card-dominated market but also have some promising use cases.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Some of the key capabilities and benefits of the Generative AI Sandbox on AWS include: Secure, governed, and isolated environment – Deploy to an isolated Amazon Web Services (AWS) account and use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to control who can access the sandbox and what actions they can perform.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Former member of the European Parliament Marietje Schaake offers new ideas on how to promote more effective tech oversight and close a growing accountability gap.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2024

If there was ever any doubt that agencies are prime targets for cyberattacks, a June 2024 Government Accountability Office report certainly sets the record straight. Urgent Action Needed,” the GAO’s dispatch to Congress begins. Risks to our nation’s essential technology systems are increasing.”

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The report notes that major incidents in which attackers used stolen valid account credentials were associated with more complex response measures by defenders, at a rate 190% greater than for…

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GCN

MARCH 30, 2023

Some lawmakers are trying to ban the app from government-owned devices, a move experts say will strengthen cybersecurity.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

An audit of four agencies found they’d implemented continuous monitoring for only three of 15 systems collectively as of May 2023, according to the Government Accountability Office. CSPM can…

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Log aggregation strategies You can send logs to CLAW from each individual AWS account or a central log aggregation point. If you are currently using a solution like AWS Control Tower , your log data for services like AWS CloudTrail or Amazon GuardDuty are already being sent to the log archive account, as shown in Figure 1.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Ensuring all of the steps are in place to migrate securely to the cloud will be important to creating a safe EHR environment,” says Larissa Manor, advanced technology account… “IHS is planning for a new electronic health record, and as a part of this implementation, there will be some transition to the cloud.

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GCN

JUNE 6, 2024

COMMENTARY | Today’s auditors don’t just account for finances, they also account for outcomes. Local government leaders should look to them as key allies.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The main difference, according to Dallas Breckon, federal executive account manager at CDW, is that these challenges go underreported. Over the past decade, Native American tribes and tribal enterprises have faced many of the same cybersecurity challenges as other organizations in both public and private sectors.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

Steps for manual set up of a landing zone on AWS A landing zone is an AWS solution that enables organizations to set up a secure and scalable multi-account AWS environment. Prepare your AWS accounts – Prepare your AWS accounts by creating the necessary accounts and configuring the required settings.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 30, 2024

With LZA, you can better manage and govern your multi-account environments that have highly regulated workloads such as those in the public sector. The major components are the management account pipeline resources, the log archive account centralized logging resources, and your workload accounts.

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GCN

MARCH 15, 2024

The Supreme Court unanimously found in a pair of cases that whether a government official can block a constituent on their personal social media account hinges on if a post is a state action or is private conduct.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Justin Raisor, advisory board member of the Tribal Cyber Training League, cited Cisco’s estimate that Native Amercians make up less than 0.005% of the tech workforce in the United States, despite accounting for nearly 3% of the country’s population.

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A Library Writer's Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Item Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives and Other Heritage and Memory Organizations A Virtual Conference Organized by UCLA Center for 17 th - and 18 th -Century Studies/William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and Oakland University Libraries March 8-9, 2023 12-4pm Eastern Keynote Speakers: Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty, Director, Smithsonian (..)

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zencity

JULY 12, 2023

If you have an existing Instagram account, your username is reserved for you, but if you don’t, get on it sooner rather than later. To do this, either download Threads from your app store OR go to your Instagram account and find Threads in the ‘three lines’ menu on your profile to get started. Screenshots from city Threads accounts 4.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

AUGUST 1, 2023

Millions of teachers and non-profit workers save for retirement using 403(b) retirement accounts. But these accounts can sometimes be subject to excessive fees and limited oversight that could impact the amount retirees ultimately receive.

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