When King County’s work-from-home orders went out March 3, employees were already accustomed to using Office 365 to work onsite, in the field or at home and to access all their files and get email phone calls.
According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s latest evaluation of vendors’ facial recognition algorithms, including those submitted after mid-March 2020, the software is becoming more adept at recognizing subjects wearing face masks. 12/02/2020
More than any other single change, digitization can make a government more resilient in the face of disruption. 12/02/2020
Researchers have developed an algorithm that may optimize vaccine distribution by targeting the people that have the maximum reachability into their social network. 12/02/2020
Wastewater-based epidemiology offers an early warning signal that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, is present in a community. 12/02/2020
The organization that administers the Universal Service Fund is looking to robotic process automation to help it verify that carriers are providing the services subscribers expect. 12/02/2020
Digital-first solutions can boost local governments' revenue, foster community development and improve overall user experience. 12/01/2020
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program is updating its materials to align with the latest cloud security guidance issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. 12/01/2020
As agencies take a threat-based approach to security, cloud is also playing a large role in resiliency plans. 11/30/2020
Vulnerabilities stemming from misconfiguration of cloud services, phishing and accidental sharing of agency information can be mitigated with a continuous and repeatable risk assessment process. 11/30/2020
The new funding is intended to help reduce a 12-month backlog in vulnerability assessments for state and local agencies. 11/30/2020
Census Bureau leaders have claimed that 99.98% of U.S. households were accounted for. But experts, including a former Census Bureau director and a number of leading researchers, have pointed out that “accounted for” is not the same as “counted” and that the 99.98% figure means little until the bureau releases more information about its data quality. 11/30/2020
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