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AWS’ Renzo Rodriguez Named WashingtonExec Cloud Council Co-Chair

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Hell focus on actionable ways to apply emerging tech like GenAI, 5G/6G networks and space-cloud convergence while keeping mission, security and compliance front and center. As co-chair, Rodriguez plans to push conversations beyond the usual buzzwords.

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NIST seeks organization to stand up institute focused on AI to boost manufacturing

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When established, the new body will be a part of Manufacturing USA, a network of public-private partnership institutes focused on advancing manufacturing.

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CrowdStrike outage briefly impacted national transplant matching system

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government continues to deal with the aftermath of the CrowdStrike IT failure Friday that created major issues for businesses around the world and impacted many federal institutions, ranging from the agency that handles critical immigration services to a network used to help facilitate organ transplants. An individual employed within the U.S.

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Keeping Agencies Up and Running

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Government organizations have ample motivation to secure their networks, devices and infrastructure: Ransomware targets 58% of public-sector entities each year, and it costs them each more than $2 million, on average, to get up and running again.

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AI fuels rise in attacks from ‘unsophisticated threat actors,’ federal cyber leaders say

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For Sarah Nur, Treasury’s chief information security officer and associate CIO for cyber, that arcade-style battle to protect federal networks from adversarial threats is “nonstop.” But the collaboration has to yield collective action.”

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How to Stop Cyber Threats — Before They Happen

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One of the biggest challenges facing government agencies today is protecting their networks and workforce from cyberattacks. Responding to cyberattacks is often challenging, and governments lack adequate resources to combat increasingly sophisticated threats,” said Brenna Plesich, Head of Public Sector at Check Point Software Technologies.

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Metrics that Matter for Critical Infrastructure Cyber Resilience

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Agenda Learning Objectives Complimentary Registration Live Captioning CART Agenda Join us as thought leaders from government and industry explore how national strategies can determine the most appropriate metrics to assess and manage cyber resilience, and the role of public-private partnerships in the face of converging cyber threats.