Criminals are hard at work trying to steal money being sent to taxpayers under the federal CARES Act. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is urging taxpayers to be on the lookout for a surge of fraudulent calls and email phishing attempts related to the Coronavirus, or COVID-19. Taxpayers should watch out not only for phishing emails but also text messages, websites and social media attempts…
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The cybersecurity landscape is changing rapidly, and not in a good way.
Cyberattacks are no longer the sole domain of nation states and a relatively small number of criminals with technical skills. Hackers now sell their services on the internet; much like private stores sell goods and services to the broader public online.
State and local…
Government Technology magazine recently published a nice article highlighting our open data planning dashboard.
This is the dashboard/chart view of our list of agencies with published open data plans in progress:
Open Data Planning Maturity
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Basically an apps contest is a publicity event that focuses talent and energy to support a worthy technical cause.
The principal resources needed are talent, time and coolness.
Talent: the principal forms of talent are participants, evangelists and mentors
Mentors are typically mature…License eXpress was the first product delivered by the first Scrum team at Department of Licensing. Building on the success of that first Scrum team in 2012, Licensing now has over 60 IT staff participating on 10 Scrum teams. Instead of dissolving at the end of a project, the teams stay intact pulling in new projects and work. Products of the teams include: improved Firearm licensing system…