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New cybersecurity bill authorizes DHS to ramp up incident response efforts nationwide
April 13, 2022 | News, CybersecurityThe National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium Act gives the Department of Homeland Security a range of opportunities to bolster cybersecurity preparedness at the state and local level, including and technical assistance services.
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Website makeover lessons drive intranet redesign
April 12, 2022 | News, Cloud & InfrastructureAfter cleaning up its citizen-facing website, the Los Angeles Department of Public Social Services is upgrading its intranet to support remote work.
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Chicago makes childhood education data accessible through new cloud
| News, Cloud & InfrastructureThe Chicago Early Childhood Integrated Data System will bring together data from across systems and programs in neighborhood-level analyses and program-specific dashboards.
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Data from friends and strangers show where you are
| News, CybersecurityEven if individual users turned off data tracking and didn’t share their own information, their mobility patterns could still be predicted with surprising accuracy based on data collected from their acquaintances, researchers found.
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Colorado moves toward statewide coverage of wastewater surveillance
| News, Data & AnalyticsAs the state expands wastewater surveillance and testing to cover 47 utilities serving 60% of Colorado's population, residents can review results on a public dashboard.
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Ohio tees up GPU-powered high-performance cluster
| News, Cloud & InfrastructureThe Ohio Supercomputer Center announced Ascend, a new high-performance computing cluster to support artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data and data analytics.
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Pre-COVID modernization streamlined DMV services
April 11, 2022 | News, Cloud & InfrastructureBecause North Carolina modernized its DMV portal prior to the pandemic, it could easily pivot to online driver’s permit applications, virtual queueing and automated license and tag renewals.
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Malware fight unites local law enforcement, national guard in training exercise
| News, CybersecurityThe Cyber Strike exercise featured a live training environment where individuals from different organizations worked on a closed network to disable a malware application.
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North Dakota launches whole-of-government cyber response
| News, CybersecurityAgencies are planning a statewide response to a significant disruption to energy, internet-based communications or other critical infrastructure.
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Mismanaged cloud services put user data at risk
| News, Cloud & InfrastructureWhen cloud services are not properly managed, attackers can "squat" on unused cloud IP addresses to collect personal data intended for other organizations.