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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. And on the back of that, NHS Digital made budget available to invest in privileged access management specifically for backup systems. to ‘how should I do PAM?’. What is ransomware?

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

In other cases, they’re created directly by elected and administrative officials of government organizations, operating as an extension of government agencies yet they engage in fundraising, soliciting private contributions from willing citizen donors.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The government agencies that dominate mortgage finance 16 currently require a credit report from each of the three major credit reporting bureaus, 17 known as a “tri-merge” report. 14 A good glimpse of this occurred in New York State in 2017. 15 Credit reports. There seem to be three reasons for this exceptionalism.

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Enabling public-private collaborations to innovate on behalf of those facing food insecurity

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2017, Amazon was one of the first retailers to work with the USDA to build support for online utilization of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. In this way, we enable individuals to purchase healthy food for their families with the confidence that they can maximize meal servings and stay on their food budget.”

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They need to be thinking about and planning for how transit strengthens and improves communities, rather than just thinking about transit in terms of modes or engineering or budgets. From " Revisiting Vision Zero in DC and NYC ": Government has a bias for inaction*. And I've written about what I call a "bias for inaction."

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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)

This is because, being secondary firms by law, the government mortgage agencies are only allowed to deal directly with primary market lenders –in this case, the relatively small number of MH structure-only lenders. 4] The three levels of quality are described in a 2017 article by Mobile Home Living ( [link] ). [5]

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