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How agencies can use enterprise risk management to implement new legislation

Partnership for Public Service

When deployed successfully as a formal part of the federal planning and budgeting process, ERM can help agencies identify, prioritize and respond to risks, often leading to more informed decisions and increased programmatic success. Employ a top-down and bottom-up approach. Build strong relationships with your inspector general.

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5 Ways That Agencies Are Ailing From Legacy Systems

GovLoop

“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. Case in point: The SSI application is 20- plus pages long, and in paper form. “It

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TOO MUCH DATA – TOO LITTLE TIME

Barrett & Greene

A notable one is an element of New York City legislation called the “How Many Stops Act”, which would require New York police officers to report on every single police street stop and investigative encounter, including demographic information about the person stopped and the reason for the encounter. I've been the victim of police abuse.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The GSEs were authorized by congressional legislation to perform a very specific set of activities, primarily focused on providing loans to consumers or businesses for a designated purpose, and mostly related to real estate and housing. the legislation establishing them). mortgage originations.

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Protecting Public Data and Trust with Azure Security and Microsoft Entra – A State DOJ Case

Microsoft Public Sector

Budgets and personnel resources are not easy to come by for mitigation efforts; thus, one avenue worth exploring is simplification and unification of data governance. Sensitive memo’s, discussions about new legislation, government research, video footage, and case files are stored and acted upon within Microsoft 365 applications.

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Modernizing government IT: 4 approaches to overcome legacy exit challenges

AWS Public Sector Blog

Governments worldwide dedicate a significant portion of their IT budget to maintaining legacy technology systems. These systems also became integral to managing aspects such as business processes, security protocols, and legislative changes, often without comprehensive documentation. billion) of its current IT spending.

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How healthcare organizations can fulfill compliance standards with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

To minimize the risk of dangerous IT-related interruptions to operations, the European Union (EU) introduced new cybersecurity legislation NIS 2 Directive in 2023. The legislation is planned to be enacted in Germany, which already has strict regulatory standards for clinics with 30,000 inpatient cases per year or more than 50 employees.