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Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; This blog is the fourth in a four-part series on infrastructure automation for government agencies that are modernizing digital systems while grappling with budget and staffing constraints and the challenges of COVID-19. Read the third post here. For government agencies, continuous modernization is quickly becoming the norm. And, in light of COVID-19, modernizing in cloud environments is now a mission-critical imperative.This type of change isn’t a surprise for agency IT administrators, despite the significant acceleration of the timelines. However, the challenge set seems to grow daily. It’s more complicated than ever to ensure ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tom Keane. Today we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Government Top Secret, a significant milestone in our commitment to bringing unmatched commercial innovation to our government customers across all data classifications. This announcement, together with new services and functionality in Azure Government Secret, provides further evidence of Microsoft’s relentless commitment to the mission of national security, enabling customers and partners to realize the vision of a multi-cloud strategy and achieve greater agility, interoperability, cost savings, and speed to innovation. We've worked in close collaboration with the US Government to build a cloud portfolio that ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: KJ Kim. Data skills are important for all. It’s one of our guiding principles at Tableau and why we support students and instructors around the globe through Tableau Academic Programs. Our mission is to lower the barrier of entry to learning analytics and build data literacy skills in future generations.  Data skills are also interdisciplinary. When I first joined the Tableau Academic Programs Team in 2017, many professors would refer me to their Computer Science or Statistics department. They shared the misconception that analytics only fit with the technical faculties. As data has become more accessible ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Simon Overton. I’ve written before about how the COVID-19 crisis has forced UK government departments to accelerate their digital transformation, and proved that it’s possible to put policy into practice in weeks, rather than months or years. Amidst the dark cloud of the pandemic, it’s important to acknowledge silver linings where we find them, and the success of recent digital initiatives such as the online coronavirus vaccination booking service deserves to be celebrated. In fact, most of the government’s latest generation of digital services offer a high-quality user experience, and citizens are often pleasantly surprised by ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Dominic Delmolino. In November 2020, the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memorandum to executive departments and agencies outlining the strategic intent to deliver information services, operate networks, and access the services of others exclusively through the latest Internet Protocol version 6, known as IPv6. While the memorandum is only a few months old, the transition to IPv6 has been years in the making. IPv6 has a number of advantages over IPv4, including an increased number of addresses available, the potential for simplified routing, and simplified end-to-end IPsec. The US government ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: П о д а т о ц и. This week we were excited to take part in (and win!) an Open Data Hackathon organized by the Metamorfosis Foundation, a prominent NGO in North Macedonia whose mission and vision are to “… strengthen the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society …”. The whole experience was very interesting, from the consultations with the organizers and advisers, to the presentations and the projects of the other participants. We were overall very proud to further contribute to the discussions about open data in North Macedonia. This is a topic ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; This blog is the first in a four-part series on infrastructure automation for government agencies that are modernizing digital systems while grappling with budget and staffing constraints and the challenges of COVID-19.The last 12 months have been a turning point for many government agencies. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the drive towards modernization and, with it, the need to ensure security and compliance requirements across a host of legacy systems and processes. How can government agencies lay the foundation to support future missions with innovation, assurance, and security?Reaping the benefits of automationMany government ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Jason Gudalis. Data is at the heart of showing citizens how public services are working, and it enables the public sector to improve policy and operational delivery. Citizens expect accessible and useful services. The public sector aims to demonstrate success through data. To build trust in this relationship and promote accountability, public sector organizations need to communicate the data-driven performance of the services they provide. It’s difficult to manage and showcase data well, even in digital form, and many of our customers spend significant time on setting up mechanisms to accomplish this. To help ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Laurent Colombant. Government procurement teams are responsible for managing billions of pounds of public expenditure, and taxpayers want more transparency on how their money is being spent. However, experts estimate that procurement errors, waste and abuse can cost central government up to 4.7% of procurement spend.[1] And when government procurement fraud scandals hit the press, the damage to public trust can be severe. To ensure integrity and prevent losses before they happen, public procurement teams must be able to monitor and detect any red flags and anomalies in real time. That’s difficult because integrity violations can take many ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jim Harris. Over twenty-five years ago, I was the victim of identity fraud. Someone with the same full name who lived in my town had billed tens of thousands of dollars in medical expenses to me. The fraudster pulled this off partly because of what is now considered an ancient trove of publicly available data. My full name, postal address and home telephone number were listed in the phone book – those printed, yellow-covered books that were delivered to your doorstep. My identity thief was able to commit in-person fraud using his real photo ID (most ... Read More