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Governments should look under the hood to make sure their IT systems are safe from cyber criminals

American City & Country

Koenig says public-facing systems like websites have a much larger attack surface. “As As more public services move online, the criticality of these systems goes up. OMNIA Partners , who sponsors this page, offers a robust portfolio of cooperative contracts in the public procurement space.

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Zero-Trust Architectures Should Include Data Protection, Cyber Recovery

FedTech Magazine

Data protection and cyber recovery solutions are key components of federal zero-trust security architectures, particularly for civilian agencies with public-facing networks. President Biden’s May 2021 cybersecurity executive order mandated that agencies develop zero-trust architecture implementation plans.

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Overcome Manual App Testing Challenges to Drive Modernization: Insights from California CIO Academy

Government Technology Insider

During the breakout session “The Expanding Realm of Today’s CIO,” Thomas Boon , CIO of California’s Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz), discussed that technology doesn’t stay around for decades like it used to.

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County assessor’s code repository powers transparent government

GCN

Cook County, Illinois, Assessor’s Office moved paper-based and siloed property assessment records to the GitLab DevOps platform where developers now post data and code to a public-facing repository.

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Collaboration with career staff is critical to appointees’ success

Partnership for Public Service

In addition to doing hands-on onboarding sessions with the Office of Presidential Personnel, the Center has developed new online resources for appointees to review as they start a new role. Within a day, I developed a deep respect for the expertise and drive of all the career staff in the office.

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Understanding wildfire risk in a changing climate with open data and AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

First Street has partnered with global engineering experts at Arup , a global collective of designers, engineering and sustainability consultants, advisors, and experts dedicated to sustainable development and more, to estimate the likelihood that any building will ignite and be lost if exposed to flame or embers.

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Montana Maps Infrastructure Spending to Ensure Equity 

GovLoop

They only had about a month to apply for this money, and we got over $900 million in grant requests,” said Autumn Coleman, DNRC’s resource development bureau chief. This formula, which calculates a county’s size, population and miles of public roadways, was fair but complex and difficult to parse for those unfamiliar with it.