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Bring the Power of AI to Cybersecurity

FedInsider

They will focus on how AI and automation are driving faster threat detection, reducing complexity in monitoring, and generating cost efficiencies post-implementation. From 2013 to 2014, he was a Mike Mansfield Fellow in Tokyo, where he worked to enhance U.S.-Japan Japan bilateral cybersecurity cooperation.

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Manatee County Sheriff’s Office transforms performance management to improve service

American City & Country

As the population grows, so does the need to make processes more efficient to best serve the needs of the community and its employees. By doing so, the HR team eliminated outdated spreadsheets and paper forms, encouraged ongoing communication, and leveraged automation to enhance efficiency.

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How South Korea enables its green transition through green public procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The standards relate to energy efficiency, standby power reduction, hazardous substance reduction, recycling and other environmental considerations. Purchasing of these products has increased dramatically over the years, from less than 1% of goods purchased in 2010 to more than 16% in 2014.

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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

In Kazakhstan, until 2014, there were 67 exceptions that allowed procuring entities to use single-source methods instead of competitive procurement. Year 2014 2017 2018 2021 2022 2024 Number of exceptions 67 54 50 48 47 43 Source OECD OECD World Bank Kapital.kz The following measures are needed to achieve truly lasting results: 1.

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Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity’s Assemblyline brings powerful malware analysis to AWS Marketplace

AWS Public Sector

Assemblyline automates the analysis of files, helping cyber defense teams use security analysts’ time efficiently. One of the Cyber Centre’s notable innovations is Assemblyline , an open source malware detection and analysis tool available to the cybersecurity community and now others on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.

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Portugal's plan for mandatory green public procurement (III - food procurement)

Telles.eu

This is a textbook example of artificially narrowing down competition as established by Article 18(1) of the Directive 2014/24/EU. This is a protectionist measure of the type I have been warning about for ten years how sustainability was going to be weaponised as a protectionist move. The second is more puzzling. What is a growing season?

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Supplier Diversity: From Checking-the-Box to a C-Suite Strategy

ivalua

In 2014, the European Union (EU) took steps to encourage supplier diversity by implementing a social procurement policy. Buoyed by action from the Canadian government, they launched a new agile procurement initiative in 2018 with the stated purpose of simplifying its procurement process e for small and diverse businesses. .