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Virginia offers scholarship for cybersecurity students
August 15, 2016 | NewsRecipients of the Cybersecurity Public Service Scholarship Program must work for the state after graduation for the number of years that they received the scholarship.
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DEF CON: How feds’ outreach plays with the hacker crowd
August 12, 2016 | NewsThe policyspeak of a DEF CON "Meet the Feds" panel put some hackers to sleep, but one attendee was glad to learn of the government’s work on IoT and software security.
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Turning cybersecurity inside out
| NewsRather than focus on attacks from the outside, organizations should concentrate on the internal networks, data and risks within their control.
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DHS opens software for incident command platform
| NewsCode for the Next-Generation Incident Command System used by first responders in emergency situations is now available on GitHub.
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FCC overstepped authority in muni broadband push, court says
| NewsThe Federal Communications Commission was overruled in its attempt to block state statues that restrict municipal broadband.
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A ‘Consumer Reports’ for software vulnerabilities
August 11, 2016 | NewsThe Cyber Independent Testing Lab will evaluate the security of commercial software so that users and purchasers can make quantitative comparisons among different products.
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Data maps gaps in Colorado’s human services programs
| NewsA group of nonprofits in Colorado transformed available government data into an interactive map to identify county-level access, spending and cost gaps.
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Practical advice for building a data management program
| NewsA new report describes how state governments can best to leverage people, processes and technology to build a successful data management program.
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Pittsburgh picks partners for civic innovation lab
| NewsThree Pittsburgh-based startups have been chosen for the first PGH Lab cohort, which connects area businesses with city government to solve public-sector problems.
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Video storage starts sheriff’s office on road to software-defined data center
August 10, 2016 | NewsWhat started as a video storage solution for the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office expanded to virtual desktop infrastructure and will soon include hyperconverged infrastructure.