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5 Ways Smart Cities Use Data—and 4 Ways to Keep That Data Secure

Pure Storage

Data program must-have: Methods for assuring data accuracy, compliance and privacy, and a strong security infrastructure. Data program must-have: High-capacity storage that can scale and consolidate both structured data and unstructured sensor data. Closing the Digital Divide. billion by 2026. Creating Digital Twins.

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The Secret to Stopping Human Error is Automating Cloud Governance

Solutions Review

Government agencies may mandate changes to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings, but placing the security burden solely on cloud providers is a false hope. Earlier this year, the Department of Health and Human Services reported that healthcare data breaches grew from 2012 to 2021. It’s just another way to take a shortcut.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Preparedness funding has ebbed and flowed over the years, peaking a few years after 9/11 and gradually decreasing with health security grant programs decreasing by a third to as much as half from their peaks, with similar reductions across all-hazards emergency management grant programs. These disasters will grow in intensity and frequency.