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AWS announces the 10 startups selected for the 2022 AWS Healthcare Accelerator focused on health equity

AWS Public Sector Blog

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the selection of the 10 participants for the 2022 AWS Healthcare Accelerator focused on improving health equity. The 2022 AWS Healthcare Accelerator program details. based Healthcare Accelerator , which concluded in October 2021. Advancing health equity with ET3 programs and AWS.

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Sticker Shock at the Grocery Store? Inflation Wasn’t the Only Reason Food Prices Increased

GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

While food prices generally increased about 2% in prior years, they increased about 11% from 2021 to 2022. Last year, U.S. consumers saw the largest annual increase in food prices since the 1980s. Inflation contributed to the increase. But there were.

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Cybersecurity Tops Local IT Priorities in a Shifting Landscape

State Tech Magazine

Respondents to the 2022 State of City and County IT National Survey by CompTIA’s Public Technology Institute earlier this year said that cybersecurity was a top priority, much as they did the year before. In 2022, 97 percent of officials identified cybersecurity as a top priority, up from an already high 88 percent in 2021.

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Top announcements from AWS worldwide public sector partners at re:Invent 2022

AWS Public Sector Blog

This is why, in March 2021, we launched the AWS Think Big for Small Business (TBSB) partner program. Since March 2021, over 400 partners from 41 countries have participated in the TBSB program. Since July 2022, MyappSoftware has included Performance Dashboard in every new launched opportunity as a value-add service.

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Changes in the Ransomware Threat to State and Local Governments

State Tech Magazine

According to SonicWall’s 2023 Cyber Threat Report, ransomware has “been on a tear” for the past few years, growing 105 percent year over year in 2021. While the report found that attacks were down in 2022, ransomware targets still reported very large number of attacks compared to levels in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

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Embracing Backup as a Service Can Help State and Local Agencies Thwart Threats

State Tech Magazine

In 2022, ransomware attacks affected 106 state or local governments, a significant increase from the 77 attacks in 2021. Top of mind for state and local government agencies is whether their cyber infrastructure is stable enough to safeguard their most treasured asset — their data — as the looming threat of cyberattacks persists.

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Government Ransomware Attacks Are Down, but Reports Cite Insufficient Data

State Tech Magazine

New data from the Institute for Security and Technology’s Ransomware Task Force, however, seems to suggest fewer incidents have arisen in 2022. through July — significantly less than in 2021, when nearly 400 incidents took place in the first seven months…