All posts tagged "data breach"

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  Senior US official defends telework policy – as Canadian government wants officials in the office three days a week

  Welcome to this month’s Global Government Forum Management and Workforce Monitor This month, we cover the latest thinking on remote working, a payroll hack at the UK’s Ministry of Defence,

  • Posted May 7, 2024
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  Access denied: how governments can boost public servants’ cybersecurity skills

  Growing geopolitical tensions and increasingly sophisticated organised crime groups have contributed to a rise in cyber threats and breaches. At a Global Government Forum webinar, experts from the UK, Italy,

  • Posted November 28, 2023
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  US federal government considers waiving incentive limits for new recruits; Canada warns officials of personal data breach: management & workforce news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. OPM proposes giving agencies authority to waive incentive limits as part of recruitment drive The

  • Posted November 23, 2023
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  US digital identity bill passes through to Senate

  An interagency task force whose job would be to support “reliable, interoperable digital identity verification in the public and private sectors” could be established by the US federal government after

  • Posted April 6, 2023
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  Australian data watchdog calls for greater vigilance against cybercrime

  The Australian Information Commissioner has urged public servants and other professionals who handle personal information to improve their defences against ransomware attacks and impersonation fraud. Angelene Falk made the call

  • Posted September 2, 2021
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  Responsible innovation: how to put data to work in government

  At Innovation 2020, a panel of senior leaders from Israel, Germany, Canada and the UK discussed how better management and use of data can support public sector innovation – and

  • Posted December 4, 2020
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  How governments can harness the power of open data

  Publishing datasets can help governments support economic outcomes and be more transparent. But ethics and cybersecurity must be baked into their approach, advised experts at a recent DELL webinar When

  • Posted November 9, 2020
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  How analytics is helping state governments head off unemployment claims fraud

  If you’re in state government, you’re well aware of the unprecedented challenges that come with off-the-charts unemployment numbers due to COVID-19. Crashing websites at state unemployment insurance offices and multi-hour

  • Posted May 20, 2020
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  India launches apps to track corona cases and tackle misinformation

  The Indian government has launched a coronavirus tracking app, two weeks after it created a WhatsApp chatbot – designed to provide citizens with information about the pandemic – which has

  • Posted April 6, 2020
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  Singapore government pledges to beef up data security after breaches

  The Singapore government is to establish a new Data Security Office and implement a number of measures to better safeguard citizen information, following a series of serious data leaks.  

  • Posted December 2, 2019
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