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Mapping the Cyber Threat Landscape

GovLoop

In the United States, the number of unfilled jobs stands at about 410,000, a 9% increase over 2021. As Fortune points out, these shortages are good news for cyber wages — and bad news for government agencies competing for talent. Another persistent problem: Agencies aren’t applying patches to known vulnerabilities.

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How the California Policy Lab is helping state and local agencies tackle homelessness, poverty and other key policy challenges: An interview with Janey Rountree and Evan White, Executive Directors – Episode #180

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

The California Policy Lab ( @CAPolicyLab ) was launched in January 2017 with a mission to create partnerships between researchers at two of California’s leading universities — UCLA and UC Berkeley — and California’s state and local government agencies.

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The economic impact of AWS’s investment in Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS opened the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region in March 2011, and expanded the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region to a full Region in 2021 to give our customers in Japan even lower latency, and the ability to architect workloads for even greater fault tolerance, resiliency, and availability.

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Ransomware attacks threaten the NHS

Open Access Government - Technology News

Although it started back in 1999 it really came to people’s consciousness back in 2017 with the WannaCry attack that impacted the NHS. Many reports talk about 100% growth of attacks during 2021. At the beginning of 2021, the NCSC saw that there was a rising threat to NHS. to ‘how should I do PAM?’. What is ransomware?

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Q&A on Eight Key Policy Topics (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

However, this can be hard to discern at times due to inflation and property values benefitting from continuing expenditures to maintain them, and especially during strongly price-appreciating markets (such as the pandemic-distorted years of 2020 and 2021); nevertheless, it is true over the long-term. 18] See the article from September 2018.

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Building resilience: Using technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unexpected

AWS Public Sector Blog

Now, the Brazilian government can make data-driven decisions to distribute Aluguel Social , a temporary, monthly assistance intended to provide urgent help to families experiencing homelessness as a result of extreme weather events. This work will also help the government anticipate future risks.