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DC pivots for Rescue Plan’s health benefits changes
July 06, 2021 | NewsThanks to its modern IT infrastructure, the Washington, D.C., Health Benefit Exchange Authority pushed out new features that reduced users’ health insurance premiums just two weeks after President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan of 2021.
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DOD moves on from JEDI
| NewsThe Pentagon plans to replace the $10 billion cloud contract with a new multi-cloud, multi-vendor contract called the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability.
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DIU OKs 3 secure cloud solutions
| NewsThe Defense Innovation Unit has selected three Secure Cloud Management prototypes that will help give users fast, secure and controlled access to software-as-a-service apps directly over the internet.
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Pennsylvania powers up internet infrastructure
| NewsGov. Tom Wolfe recently signed two bills designed to increase data center investments and 5G infrastructure deployments.
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Pay the ransom or not? It’s complicated.
July 02, 2021 | NewsResearchers used behavioral game theory to study how human subjects analyzed strategic decisions around investing in cybersecurity or refusing to pay ransoms.
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Cyber EO will drive zero-trust progress
| NewsThe tight deadlines featured in President Joe Biden's cybersecurity executive order will push agencies to make “meaningful progress” on zero-trust initiatives, federal officials said.
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Why quantum and data protection should go hand in hand
| NewsIdentifying and safeguarding infrastructure and critical data in the post-quantum world should be part of an agency’s overall cybersecurity risk management program, current data security practices and efforts to comply with the new cybersecurity executive order.
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Pooling society’s collective intelligence helped fight COVID – it must help fight future crises too
| NewsThe COVID pandemic has brought home the importance of gathering and analyzing society’s collective intelligence and finding new ways to share that combined knowledge as quickly as possible.
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Deadline extended for Government Innovation Award nominations
July 01, 2021 | NewsHelp us find the best examples of public-sector innovation in six critical categories -- submit your nomination by July 15.
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Lawmakers mull fixes for state and local tech challenges
| NewsStreamlining and harmonizing federal cybersecurity and data privacy regulations, updating legacy technology and upskilling the workforce would help state and local governments get more out of their IT investments.