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One Year Later: A Hacker’s View on the Cybersecurity Executive Order
Federal network adversaries have evolved in the year since the order’s signing.
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Phishing Threats Attempt to Hook New Government Victims
While the government is focused on the dangers of ransomware, phishing campaigns can circumvent the usual protections placed on its networks.
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How automation can enhance and empower the federal workforce
While progress is being made across many areas of government digital transformation, this is just the start of the journey to improve government and put the citizen at the center.
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Storytelling and slide decks
Steve Kelman shares ideas about how to inject narrative techniques into your humdrum PowerPoint presentations.
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Debunking Myths Around Facial Recognition: What Government Agencies Need to Know
Government use of facial recognition technology provides its fair share of controversy, as well as tangible benefits.
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Transformation and the CX executive order
Why President Biden's customer experience executive order presents an unprecedented opportunity to transform government services.
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Practical ideas for managing polarization at work
Steve Kelman flags a paper that suggests that a "receptive mindset" can help bridge polarization gaps inside organizations.
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5 reasons the U.S. could lose its quantum leadership
U.S. government is at a technological inflection point and unless we act quickly to bolster domestic micro-electronics production, invest in research and upskill our workforce, we will be left in the dust as the rest of the world advances in quantum.
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The Biggest Roadblocks to DataOps Adoption and How Agencies Can Overcome Them
Database professionals need training, budgetary investment and leadership buy-in to be fully successful.
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To truly improve CX, the government should define its own metrics
The surface-level sentiments found in generic private sector surveys provide the government few helpful insights in assessing how well a service performs.
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Decoding the cyber executive order
What the federal government is building with the cybersecurity executive order is essentially an extended detection and response architecture without the label.
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Interesting Federal Social Media Accounts You May Not Know About
Federal agencies have come a long way from the bureaucratic rules that often hampered effective social media use.
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Non-traditional contractors grow up
The Digital Services Coalition, a trade association representing non-traditional IT contractors, is out with a new strategic plan.
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Vendor locking in the cloud
The "bring your own licenses" lift-and-shift cloud deployment model is giving way to more restrictions as software vendors look to steer existing user bases to their own cloud offerings.
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Scene Graph Technology: High-Impact Use Cases for Government
Scene graphs allow humans and machines to categorize and query images based on complex relationships among objects in a scene.
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Your digital footprints are more than a privacy risk – they could help hackers infiltrate computer networks
Hackers with open source intelligence gathering tools can mine a target’s audio and video to extract personal information they then use in phishing messages that appear to come from a trusted source.
Emerging Tech
Artemis Will Soon Take Flight
The project’s launch marks the first step in what could be a new era of true space travel.
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Congress Should Take This Big Step Towards Energy Efficiency
The tax code offers a powerful tool for incentivizing green choices.
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Performance measurement is alive and well
Steve Kelman reviews the current slate of the Biden administration's priority performance goals and corrects the record about the use of performance management.
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Only a transformation of service delivery can rebuild trust in government. Here’s how.
The COVID-19 pandemic proved all federal agencies need to become great at service delivery, and an executive order provides the authority. It's time to get moving.
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