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Improving software security in the public sector

Open Access Government - Technology News

UK public sector organisations are facing threats and increasingly sophisticated attacks on key infrastructure and software security This trend is only expanding as more services become digitised and complex software supply chains multiply the opportunities for malicious actors to infiltrate networks.

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Smarter Government: How New Jersey Courts Began a Journey to Zero-Trust Security

State Tech Magazine

In 2020, employees of the New Jersey judicial system could not report to work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. New Jersey Judiciary CIO Jack McCarthy was faced with a challenge: how to ensure these newly remote workers could securely access sensitive systems using legacy architecture.

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Agencies Win Big with Specific Applications of Staff Augmentation

State Tech Magazine

Reliance on managed security providers increased from 2020 to 2022, Deloitte and NASCIO note. In 2020, 51 percent of survey respondents said they contracted with a managed security service provider; in 2022, the figure was 78 percent.…

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Commercial Solutions Assist the U.S. Army in Securing Remote Classrooms

FedTech Magazine

But when COVID-19 struck in 2020, the center’s home base of Fort Eisenhower, Ga. “Our classes are like a conveyer belt,” says Todd Boudreau, deputy commandant of the Cyber School, part of the Army’s Cyber Center of Excellence. formerly…

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Mass Attacks in Public Spaces, 2016-2020

Disaster Zone blog

Compiled by the Department of Homeland Security

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How to improve security with an employee emphasis

Open Access Government - Technology News

We must improve security because the impacts of human error on cybersecurity can be immense, and one small slip-up can have disastrous impacts One small slip-up or moment of personal irresponsibility can cause havoc for even the most robust organisations. The statistics speak for themselves. This isn’t coincidence.

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Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction: Creating a secure virtual classroom

Google Public Sector

In 2020, OCSS made a conscious pivot to introduce more technology into its education process, which had been mostly limited to paper-and-pencil and a lot of face-to-face instruction. Screened and Secured Ohio DRC rolled out Google Chromebooks as part of a pilot project in 2020. Sanders was surprised by the response.