Mass Attacks in Public Spaces, 2016-2020
Disaster Zone blog
JANUARY 25, 2023
Compiled by the Department of Homeland Security
How governments can transform services securely in the cloud
AWS Public Sector Blog
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Public sector organizations around the world share a common concern: how can they make sure their digital transformation maintains data security? These leaders are often surprised to hear that security can be a digital transformation enabler—even an accelerator—once they demonstrate that modern technology can be safer than legacy IT.
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Season 4 Episode 1 - Education CIO's Modernization Journey Hones in on Security
GovCast
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
The Department of Education is undergoing a modernization journey that ramped up when CIO Jason Gray joined in 2016. Gray discusses the progress since then, which resulted in FITARA score improvements, cloud development, pivots during the pandemic and an increasing focus on data security to protect student and financial aid information.
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Pick Out Threats in Federal Networks With IP Packet Capture
FedTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Federal government cybersecurity breaches rose by 453 percent between fiscal years 2016 and 2021, according to the Government Accountability Office. To combat and overcome these threats, federal IT administrators can use IP packet capture to examine network traffic for security threats using Microsoft Network Monitor (Netmon).
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AWS Marketplace now available in the AWS Secret Region
AWS Public Sector Blog
JANUARY 26, 2024
First deployed in 2016 , ICMP is a digital catalog with software listings from independent software vendors (ISVs) that makes it easy for customers in the intelligence community (IC) to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS.
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How Livingston Parish prepares for natural disasters by improving resiliency in the cloud
AWS Public Sector Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
After a major flood in 2016 knocked out their 911 system, they decided to use the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to become resilient against disaster, reducing service interruptions and improving response times. When a natural disaster strikes. “In Not just for our agency, but for the people that we serve.”.
Episode 6 - Haiyan Song, Senior Vice President of Security Markets at Splunk
GovCast
OCTOBER 2, 2018
Oct 1, 2018 | This sixth episode features Haiyan Song, Senior Vice President of Security Markets at Splunk. Song was named in the top 50 most powerful women in tech in 2016 and 2017, but her childhood dream was actually to be an astronaut. after college in the late 1980s, fell into the database security world, and loved it.
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GRANTEGY: Don’t Leave Your Grants to Chance Series
Grant Consulting Services, LLC
APRIL 25, 2024
Increases Funding Success: Optimized grant-seeking significantly improves your chances of securing funding. 2016, February 24). Because it drives decisions, organizations should be able to effectively utilize strategies to create a higher level of awareness that focuses on the activities that increase the chances of success.
How to Keep the Local Grocery Store Open: A Challenge for NC CED Professionals
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
JULY 18, 2023
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs [link] accessed via [link] Accessed July 18, 2023. ” – Mayor Douglas Shere The most recent government statistics available on areas with low numbers of or access to grocery stores is from 2016, part of the federal Food Environment Atlas.
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Orbital Sidekick uses AWS to monitor energy pipelines and reduce risks and emissions
AWS Public Sector Blog
APRIL 11, 2023
The OSK persistent monitoring service helps commercial and government organizations meet their sustainable operations; environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG); and security goals. Founded in 2016, OSK has rapidly developed and deployed its technology to collect, process, and analyze advanced hyperspectral data, powered by AWS.
Google Public Sector and Battelle NEON expand data access to advance ecological research
Google Public Sector
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Operated by applied science and technology development company Battelle since 2016, NEON was designed and fully funded by the U.S. This community-science partnership will help communities plan for and mitigate the future effects of climate change on berry availability, thus addressing issues of food security and community resilience.
How Vacant and Abandoned Buildings Affect the Community
Center for Community Progress
MARCH 24, 2023
Maintenance and abatement costs : Local governments incur the costs of remedying nuisances and unsafe conditions, including boarding and securing structures, cutting grass, removing trash and debris, and demolishing unsafe structures. For instance, Toledo, Ohio spent $3.8 million on fire dispatch.
Scooters, private equity, micromobility and transit
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
. -- " The problem when you define every outcome as a success, you don't learn, and therefore failure is more likely: bike share in Seattle and Los Angeles as examples ," 2016 But it's good at some things, not others. In terms of off loading parking, security, and maintenance, it's awesome. It's personal transit, not mass transit.
PubWorks Cloud FAQS
PubWorks Blog
JUNE 21, 2022
Secure, safe database storage with Microsoft Azure. Our critical servers are secured by only allowing connections from known IP addresses. Per our customer agreements, backups are kept for the last three months, but at present, we have every backup taken since November 2016. What will PubWorks Cloud do for me?
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Transforming the performance of your built assets and estate
Open Access Government - Technology News
OCTOBER 1, 2022
A significant step forward for the construction industry The UK Government Building Information Modelling (BIM) mandate in April 2016 was a significant step forward for the construction industry, providing the processes and guidance, standards and governance for designing, constructing and operating built assets.
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3 Ways to Bridge the Cyber Workforce Gap
GovLoop
JUNE 2, 2023
Despite a Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Strategy that’s been in place since 2016 and a Federal Cyber Workforce Management and Coordinating Working Group dating from 2019, governments continue to struggle to find enough qualified cyber personnel.
How to build an Aadhaar Data Vault on AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Considering the sensitivity of the Aadhaar number and the potential implication of having one’s Aadhaar number compromised, UIDAI mandated the need for all Aadhaar and Aadhaar-related data to be encrypted and stored separately in a secure, access-controlled data repository known as an Aadhaar Data Vault. What is an Aadhaar Data Vault?
CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed
NLRG (National Legal Research Group)
MARCH 18, 2022
Officers Michael Mays and Daniel Ledman responded to conduct a residence security check. 2016); Saathoff v. 2016); Maldonado v. Plaintiffs Jennifer LeMay and Courtney Livingston owned two pit bulls named Ciroc and Rocko, which were service animals for members of the family. Muhlenberg Twp. , 3d 205, 212 (3d Cir. See Mayfield v.
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September or October should be College Bike Month
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
I did have a section on biking for transportation in the 2016 post, " Back to School #3: College." Neither campus has a system of secure bike parking, then again, few places do. It's self certified though, so it isn't particularly critical analysis focused. They also have air pumps and a repair stand outside the shop for use 24/7.
State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 23, 2020
There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Civil protection, when it works, is a form of participatory democracy, in which the citizen has an active stake in his or her own safety and security. Pandemic Influenza 18-to 20 October 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014.
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Did American Investors Believe Evergrande would be China’s Lehman Moment?
The Lowe Down
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Since 2016, there has been a significant increase in the number of American and European investments into Chinese securities, totaling $1.1 trillion in the summer of 2021 alone. As of September 2021, several large American firms held significant amounts of Evergrande shares.
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City of Joplin, MO Residents Engage with City Budget Survey to Rank Seven City Priorities
PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting
JUNE 2, 2016
Joplin residents rank safe, secure city as highest priority Joplin residents who responded to a city budget survey rated a "safe, secure and prepared community" as the highest of seven city priorities. because many of those same respondents also saw value in the 'safe, secure and prepared community' result.
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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 9, 2022
Then again, there is a tension and balance for corporations between permeability and security (e.g., The ground floor of the Unilever Building in HafenCity is set up similarly, with a restaurant-cafeteria open to the public, coffee shop, a convenience store featuring Unilever goods and "merch," and other public spaces.
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January 2023 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter
Microsoft Public Sector
JANUARY 23, 2023
This feature provides additional security by only disabling chat write access for non-federated users and unauthenticated users who join Teams meetings through a link, so it must be used in conjunction with disabled meeting chat policy applied to financial advisors to remain compliant.
Rethinking how to hire and retain cloud talent in the public sector
AWS Public Sector Blog
OCTOBER 28, 2022
In the 2021 Global Knowledge IT Skills and Salary Report , one of the largest studies of industry salaries, certifications, and skills, 76% of IT decision-makers reported an IT skills gap, up from 31% in 2016. So how can public sector organizations help address this skills gap?
Improving the food system related host/ess gifts for Thanksgiving
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Previous year's entries discussed issues like "Native Americans and the Pilgrims," takings of land, etc. (" Happy Thanksgiving: Stay Home! ") and food security (" Happy Thanksgiving "). Pandemic: Cooking at home. The pandemic shifted how we eat at least for a time. The specific coffee we buy is up 60%.
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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Later, as part of BicycleSpace, a bicycle facilities system integration firm, I put together a proposal for activation including a water sculpture and multiple forms of secure, special bike parking. Include movable tables and chairs, secure bicycle parking and other elements. It laid the groundwork for connecting civic assets.
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Creating successful researcher-practitioner partnerships at the Federal level: An interview with Dayanand Manoli, Professor, University of Texas at Austin – Episode #128
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
JUNE 30, 2016
He is an economist at University of Texas at Austin whose research interests include policy related to social security and retirement policy, income tax policy and education policy. To get insights into what it takes to create a successful researcher-practitioner partnership, we’re joined by Dayanand Manoli.
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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
JUNE 9, 2019
Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) NATO Science for Peace and Security, Series E: Human and Societal Dynamics Vol. and this might give us some basis for distinguishing phenomena by the magnitude of their impacts. Rossodivita and M. UNDRR 2019.
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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
MARCH 13, 2024
CSS built and now operates the largest and most advanced mortgage securitization platform in the US, supporting Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae’s 70 percent market share of the industry with flexibility, scalability, and security at its core. CSS uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power their solutions in the cloud.
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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 18, 2024
E-bike promotion through voucher-based discounts, as some communities are doing, including Salt Lake, might be worth doing by TMDs. -- There should be a program to promote high quality secure bicycle parking in large apartment buildings. -- Bicycle sharing is expanding. Bike theft is a problem in Salt Lake. Planning and advocacy.
April 2023 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter
Microsoft Public Sector
APRIL 20, 2023
We leverage the same security and monitoring suite available to all our customers in this environment. How this will affect your organization: Integrated into Microsoft 365, Copilot automatically inherits all of your company’s security, compliance, identity, and privacy policies and processes.
Breaking from the binary: Enhancing gender and pronoun inclusivity in federal programs
Partnership for Public Service
JULY 13, 2023
In 2016, James Shupe (formerly Jamie*) successfully petitioned an Oregon circuit court to become the first person to legally identify as nonbinary in the United States. The Department of State introduced a third gender marker , X, on the U.S. passport application.
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February 2023 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter
Microsoft Public Sector
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
MC495329 — SharePoint: External File Request in SharePoint Document Library Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 103625 With File Request feature in SharePoint Document Library, users have an easy and secure way to request and obtain files from anyone. Power Platform MC510832 — Power Pages (previously Power Apps portals) version 9.5.1.x
Archangel: The future of telecare service providers is now
Open Access Government - Technology News
MARCH 30, 2023
Some suppliers are still asking for time because they need to upgrade their systems, despite having known about the need for change since 2016, and the Cloud being around since 2010. The sooner we begin the investment/implementation of these strategies, the better it will be for all” says Tom.
Accelerating economic research at UBC with high performance computing using RONIN and AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
JUNE 21, 2023
When Leyton-Brown and Newman began research into the computationally complex auction theory behind the 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction, their ML models required significantly more computing power than their on-premises infrastructure could provide.
July 2023 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter
Microsoft Public Sector
JULY 20, 2023
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements.
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)
MARCH 4, 2024
The F&F core business of securitizing and guaranteeing loans essentially takes the below-market cost of the funds raised by issuing mortgage-backed securities (MBS), which reflects the implied guarantee, and passes that subsidized cost through to primary market lenders. Growing profits by exploiting the implied guarantee.
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Bulgarian EdTech Shkolo uses AWS to reduce bureaucracy for administrators
AWS Public Sector Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Established in 2016, Shkolo offers software solutions for schools to optimize back-end administrative processes, allow parents to track their students’ achievements and make appointments with teachers, gamify how students can rate their teachers and assignments to promote engagement in school, and more.
Microsoft Collaboration Framework for the US Defense Industrial Base
Microsoft Public Sector
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
However, not all the features have been available to organizations that deploy into the US Sovereign Cloud when introduced in 2016. Technically speaking, the US Sovereign Cloud aligns with the higher watermark of compliance with the US Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG) Impact Level 5 (IL5).
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With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JUNE 19, 2023
Banner / The Seattle Times) OTOH, it's not just office buildings (" Stress Builds as Office Building Owners and Lenders Haggle Over Debt ," New York Times ), hotels (" Difficulty Securing Financing Halts More Than Half Of U.S. Hotel Development ," Bisnow), and retail spaces that are getting crushed.
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December 2022 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter
Microsoft Public Sector
DECEMBER 20, 2022
With the protocols most at risk on their way to being secured, we are now turning our attention to one important Exchange protocol that remains untouched by this effort – Autodiscover. Enterprise Mobility & Security (GCC, GCCH, DoD). Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Security (GCC, GCCH, DoD). Government DoD endpoints.
Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 4, 2024
Music in the American Wild ( webpage , Eastman School of Music) was a program where new music compositions were commissioned to play in 12 National Parks, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the park system in 2016. Nina Berman , Homeland Security Advisory Billboard, Country Club Hills, IL, 2008, from the Homeland series.
July 2022 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter
Microsoft Public Sector
JULY 19, 2022
Configurable impersonation protection and scope for preset security policies. Enterprise Mobility & Security (GCC, GCCH, DoD). Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Security (GCC, GCCH, DoD). Microsoft Defender for Identity Security (GCC, GCCH, DoD). Data Discovery using Trainable Classifiers in Content Explorer.
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