Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

JANUARY 2, 2024

Best of 2023 podcasts: One of emergency management’s major partners in all things concerning disasters, from the preparation phase to the response and recovery is our public information/affairs officers who support what we are trying to do in communicating with the public. I highly recommend this podcast to your listening.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Satellite communication operators are increasingly seeking more flexibility at their ground stations. Most modem vendors use Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to efficiently implement encoding and modulation. Architectural diagram of a traditional satellite communications system.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

and NTT are transforming UK local council communication with phone-based Voice AI, addressing challenges in resident engagement across various community services Yet, despite a solid online presence, a substantial 60% of their interactions remain via the phone channel, and many do not have the resources to maintain efficiency.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Generative AI has been increasingly used to create highly personalized and convincing phishing emails, making it harder for even trained employees to distinguish between legitimate and malicious communications. Implement robust monitoring and alerting systems for both on premises and AWS environments.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Terrestrial communications infrastructure for remote locations can be costly to deploy and vulnerable to outages. Meanwhile, satellite solutions, especially those needing more than one constellation, are difficult to implement and operate. Organizations want to enhance service resiliency to address this challenge.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

During this POC, the colleges administrators saw firsthand how Amazon Connect could be customized to include all of their desired featuresfrom delivering thousands of pre-recorded student announcements to implementing more efficient call navigation and speech detection capabilities.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 9, 2024

From the early large-scale implementations of virtual agents to alleviate demands on overwhelmed call centres, agencies experienced massive gains in their ability to serve citizens in need. The experiment phase focuses on developing prototypes and assessing their impact.

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Homeroom

OCTOBER 4, 2022

By: Lauren Mendoza, Deputy Assistant Secretary for State and Local Outreach, Office of Communication and Outreach Recently, representatives of the Department of Education (ED) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) visited Charlotte and Durham, North Carolina for conversations on partnerships between schools and community-based organizations (..)

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Social Pinpoint

JULY 18, 2023

When it comes to collecting authentic and high-quality data, mandatory registration for your community engagement site can prove to be a valuable tool. By building trust within the community, and remaining honest about how data is collected and stored. What are the benefits of mandatory registration for community engagement?

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Microsoft Public Sector

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To assist in this, Microsoft and CISA will also be providing the Microsoft Expanded Cloud Log Implementation Playbook which will provide an in-depth look at each of the new log events and how they can be used to support hunting and incident response operations at your organization.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Agencies that don’t implement the latest and greatest technology run the risk of falling short of customer and employee expectations and of collecting technical debt. To make sure employees are best equipped to communicate and collaborate, agencies need four collaboration elements in place.

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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Federal Communications Commission has specifically made efforts to bring underserved and remote areas up to speed technologically to bridge the connectivity divide. Agencies have made significant strides toward improving the availability and affordability of broadband service in recent years.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 26, 2024

Companies and governments have, by default, trained us to accept their methods of communication and engagement, often using emails and text messages that urge immediate action and display the same attributes as those sent from cybercriminals. Finally, fintech companies can implement more robust reporting methodologies.

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GovLoop

JUNE 14, 2024

From being a compassionate and strong leader to implementing an innovative solution for a challenge in your agency, there are a lot of ways that govies can leave a good, lasting impression on constituents. They have actively improved or implemented processes, initiatives, training, awareness or other efforts that promote DEIA at their agency.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Baseline implementation guides can be found at Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) Project | CISA. Installing and running the tool provides the capability of conducting security assessments of cloud environments via PowerShell and Open Policy Agent to check compliance with the implementation guides.

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Peak Proposals

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The list includes some software tools you can use, but most of the tips are free to implement and only require your time. Microsoft’s built-in grammar and spellchecker tool has gotten increasingly robust and is a good option as well, particularly because it is easy to implement as part of Microsoft Word. Take a break.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JUNE 25, 2024

Implementing highly secure technology and using robust building management systems (over 60%) is key, particularly as these are highly vulnerable to hacking. Transparent access, open source, and collaboration will be the cornerstone for future development and implementation in this area.

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Because Google has pioneered the zero-trust approach in security with its BeyondCorp implementation , and has both FedRAMP High and Department of Defense Impact Level 4 certifications, Google Workspace can offer federal agencies peace of mind.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 22, 2024

The first thing to acknowledge is that those we are often requesting information from, whether you are an employee or consultant, is that the individuals are often primarily focused on the implementation of programs in service of the organization’s mission.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JANUARY 12, 2024

Anticipated to impact over 500K DoD contract awards annually upon full implementation, this proposed rule represents a significant development in enhancing cybersecurity within the DIB.   This rule builds upon the existing requirements outlined in DFARS 252.204-7012 for the Defense Industrial Base.

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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Agencies can ensure that their servers are secure from the start by working with a proactive industry partner to implement a comprehensive strategy. Technology leaders…

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

When they buy technology, cities and counties will often face multiple issues, says Dean Cunningham , segment development manager, Public Safety at Axis Communications , a company that produces network cameras, access control systems, network audio devices and other IP networking solutions for physical security and video surveillance applications.

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GovLoop

JUNE 30, 2023

But legacy hardware and software, which abound in government agencies, can create a barrier to implementing zero trust. The proxies are deployed alongside each instance of a service to communicate with the other services in the system, handling all calls to and from a service, including authentication and authorization, encryption and others.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 15, 2022

In essence, they are capable of threatening the security of commonly used public key cryptosystems and exposing the vulnerabilities that exist within today’s fundamental digital systems that are used to power various internet services, including online financial transactions, e-commerce, and secure communications.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Research shows that family and community involvement in schools is closely related to positive outcomes for students. Plus, when educators connect and communicate with each other, they can help improve the culture of education, use their data more effectively, and deliver better results for students. orientation training).

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 19, 2023

CISOs and business leaders must start by implementing a multi-layered security strategy. Before finally reviewing both application and transmission level security to minimise exposure and protect communications within and across your company networks. It continues to be a prominent threat to businesses at a national level.

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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These publications are important because one of the primary requirements for CMMC is that organizations will need to implement most, if not all, of NIST 800-171r3’s controls for Level 2 certification. Implementation and management of cybersecurity technology, to meet a regulatory requirement or not, has financial implications.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Sprague adds this example of how digital transformation can enhance a government’s performance: “Updated processes, supported by new and existing technologies, can help break down silos so that data and communication can flow more efficiently across teams.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

If the application is using TLS encryption natively (such as API traffic on https/443), then use Elastic IP addresses (EIPs) to communicate. As noted in the VPC FAQ when using public IP addresses, all communication between instances and services hosted in AWS use AWS’s private network. 8 or 0.0.0.0/0) 24 and 10.0.1.0/24), 8 or 0.0.0.0/0)

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 1, 2023

can communicate to the funder the outcome of their investment). To implement the “benefits before features” approach, you must show the funder the transformative benefits of your program before revealing the details of the solution you are offering. We see this come up frequently.

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 1, 2023

can communicate to the funder the outcome of their investment). To implement the “benefits before features” approach, you must show the funder the transformative benefits of your program before revealing the details of the solution you are offering. We see this come up frequently.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Satellite communications systems provide the DoD with critical capabilities—from delivering satellite imagery to enabling communications—that support military users operating around the globe. government (USG) space assets in all orbits to provide secure, assured, and low-latency data communications.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

In this blog post we show how Pearson PLC , an AWS education technology (EdTech) customer, successfully implemented resilient architectures through chaos engineering using AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS). This required the implementation of safeguarding techniques, well-defined risk tolerance levels, and robust rollback mechanisms.

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Let's Talk Parks

MAY 6, 2021

It’s a legitimate question, and you need to consider how implementing a tool is a big change for a lot of people. How will we communicate? Is email enough, or should we look at tools like Slack or Twist for text communication? Is your team ready? There will always be those who are slow to adopt new things – that’s okay!

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Google Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This brings together the built-in, reliable, and highly scalable services of Google Cloud and Moodle to create a more modern, robust, easy to manage, and cost-effective implementation. Last but not least, Moodle's pods communicate with the instance's database that lives in a high-scalable version of MySQL (part of Cloud SQL service).

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GovLoop

MAY 12, 2023

Implementing a ZTA, however, can be difficult if your organization is still working with older systems and applications that aren’t made for a distributed, cloud-based environment. So, what’s the solution? So, what’s the solution?

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The White House wants agencies to ensure they’re providing easy-to-use, trustworthy, accessible information to improve how they communicate with citizens, which is why it issued digital experience guidance in September.

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