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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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Privileged access: Understanding security inside out

Open Access Government - Technology News

Mark Warren, Product Specialist at Osirium, explains why privileged access poses security issues in the public sector Government organisations are the backbone of the UK. Today, adversaries target individuals and endpoints much more frequently than systems and networks to secure the privileged access they require to devastate CNI.

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How to avoid and recover from cyber and ransomware attacks

Open Access Government - Technology News

In its 2022 annual review, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) advised that over the past 12 months, businesses and organisations in the UK reported hundreds of cyber incidents, many of which were ransomware attacks. In 2021 there was a joint advisory from the NCSC and its international partners on this increased global threat.

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Why government must heed real-time data management trends

Open Access Government - Technology News

Keeping data secure. Government data is maintained through protective security policies and risk management centrally and locally. A framework is used to determine how government departments, agencies, and arm’s length bodies that oversee data, can do so securely so the government can function effectively and safely.

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Top re:Invent 2022 announcements for K12 education

AWS Public Sector Blog

Many schools and education service agencies are looking for ways to securely share, store, analyze, and visualize data for a variety of use cases. Amazon Redshift announced several new features to simplify data ingestion and make your data warehouse more secure and reliable. Centralize security data with Amazon Security Lake.

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Continuing the pace of government innovation with the cloud in Asia Pacific and Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

According to a Gartner survey in 2021, digitally advanced government organizations realize more benefits of modernization, including higher efficiency, cost reductions, greater workforce productivity, compliance, and transparency. Staying secure with the cloud. Continue the momentum by scaling digitization.

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Working backwards from Vision Zero to improve road safety

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2021, more than 42,000 people died in roadway crashes in the US. To achieve its goal of eliminating traffic deaths and serious injury collisions on city streets by 2030, the Bellevue City Council developed and approved the Safe System approach. Safe s treets and r oads for a ll.