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Get Your Data House in Order

GovLoop

Since then, agencies including the Department of Defense (DoD) have developed their own policies to implement those goals. DoD based its 2020 data strategy on eight guiding principles that can serve as a useful model for other organizations in creating their own policies. Here are ways to carry out each principle.

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Combating cyber-enabled fraud: Sapphire’s proactive cyber security approach

Open Access Government - Technology News

However, with online crime totalling $8tn globally, the system seems broken In the UK, fraud is the most experienced crime, accounting for 40% of all crimes. Compliance standards are implemented within the public sector to achieve minimum cyber security standards. The Internet offers many advantages.

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How to shore up data protection beyond cyber security policies and standards

Open Access Government - Technology News

Aberdeenshire Council had 243 data breaches between 2020 and 2022. A case in point appears to be Aberdeenshire Council, which revealed in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request that some 243 breaches occurred between January 2020 and March 2022 – with that figure representing an upward trend.

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Cybercrime is on the rise, is your business prepared?

Open Access Government - Technology News

million in 2020/21 ( Source: ActionFraud ). While the importance of cyber security increases, many are still unaware of measures they can implement and actions they can take to mitigate risk, combat crime, and protect their future. User accounts are now required for multiple device access and internet- based services.

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Smart, safe and sustainable cycling: how AI-powered insights will encourage the next generation

Open Access Government - Technology News

But with more of us joining cycle lanes, local authorities have had to invest in ways to make our cities and towns more cycle friendly and implement traffic monitoring solutions to aid this growth. With this, they can effectively plan, implement and monitor current and future schemes. Harnessing data to assess impact.

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Introducing a modern cloud native approach for running Moodle at scale

Google Public Sector

Even before 2020, the education market was rapidly leaning into digitalization. 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. This implementation of Moodle is 100% cloud-native. Open-source.

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Why government must heed real-time data management trends

Open Access Government - Technology News

The impact of data usage during the COVID-19 pandemic was so significant that the UK government established a National Data Strategy in 2020, the aim of which was to use data to innovate, experiment, and drive a new era of growth. Investments in machine learning and AI are being prioritised, and depend on usable data.