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By Denis Boudreau Mar 10, 2021 COVID-19 has changed how we do just about everything, from banking to shopping to schooling to working -- even personal communications.  One silver lining is the increased attention to the importance of digital channels, as well as the accessibility of those channels. That’s because an estimated 26% of the U.S. population has some form of disability – vision, hearing, cognitive or limited motor mobility. Many organizations have made progress updating their ...

The Defense Department wants data, software and analysis to be shared across command and control systems.

By Clinton Johnson, Margot Bordne Mar 11, 2021 People and organizations often tell stories using maps. Many use the technology of a geographic information system to gather and store crucial mappable data, process it and, most importantly, display the information in a way that can be easily understood. Sometimes the result is an actual story map, but often GIS produces maps and dashboards that allow stories to emerge from the visuals. The data reflects real people and the way community conditio...

By GCN Staff Mar 11, 2021 To keep pace with growing cybersecurity threats, governments must first be able to identify, categorize and prioritize their high-value IT assets, the loss or corruption of which would seriously impact their ability to deliver on essential missions. Thanks to a $1.2 million grant from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS) is launching a two-year pil...

Utilities should update software, provide training and assess what software and hardware they use -- as well as their cyber-physical vulnerabilities.

Four research teams will work to develop a hardware accelerator and software stack for fully homomorphic encryption that can bring the speed of FHE calculations in line with similar unencrypted data operations.

By John Minasyan Mar 08, 2021 Cyberattacks and data breaches are a daily occurrence -- and the stakes have never been higher for government agencies and private-sector organizations. Data breaches skyrocketed in 2020, increasing 273% in just the first quarter of the year. There are countless available technologies aimed at combating cyber threats, yet hackers are innovating faster. Once attackers are in the network, they focus on finding more valuable assets while trying to hide their presenc...

Among the 30,000 victims of the Hafnium attack in the U.S. are a disproportionate number of local governments, security experts said.

By Stephanie Kanowitz Mar 08, 2021 Pittsburgh announced today  a $4 million pilot partnership with Google Cloud to migrate its legacy IT infrastructure to the cloud. The migration work is expected to take about a year of the four-year agreement, said Heidi Norman, acting director of the city’s Department of Innovation and Performance. The move will happen in three phases. The first will involve moving IT tools and applications that the department uses to monitor and manage the infrastructure...

By David Egts Mar 09, 2021 From COVID-19 to national security challenges and space exploration, high-performance computing (HPC) is being leveraged to solve some of our nation’s most pressing issues. In combination with modern application development, HPC is advancing the science and understanding needed to address these challenges. In a traditional HPC environment, computational scientists set up clusters and run workloads. Quite often, these workloads must be rebuilt for each machine. This ...