Quick Hits Of the nearly 30,000 security incidents analyzed in the 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, the public sector was the second-most victimized industry (following entertainment) with 3,236 reported incidents and 885 total breaches. GCN has more on this story.
Mark Forman, formerly of
Unisys and Science Applications International Corp., takes on a new role as executive vice president as government consultancy Dynamic Integrated Services, Washington Technology reports. According to his biography on the George W. Bush presidency website, Forman was the first person in the federal government to fulfill responsibilities normally associated with a corporate Chief Information Officer.
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Black Swans and Gray Rhinos are constant risks that can be made worse
May 04, 2021
Steve Kelman, who led the Office of Federal Procurement Policy during the Clinton Administration and is a current professor at the Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, has a reputation as a big thinker about management and government and why things work the way they do.
In this conversation with Editor Nick Wakeman, Kelman shares his thoughts about Black Swans and Gray Rhinos those often traumatic events that we either didn’t see coming or we knew could happen but we failed to prepare for.
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Quick Hits The
Department of Commerceadded seven Chinese supercomputing companies to its list of entities subject to export controls and other sanctions for engaging in or enabling activities contrary to U.S. national security and foreign policy interests. The
National Intelligence Council publicly released its annual Global Trends report on April 8. The report projects possible global security conditions out to 2040. The
IRS is looking for ideas on how to extract usable data from low-quality scans and other low-resolution digital images residing in legacy systems.
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