UK Shared Services Strategy at breaking point as procurement fight deepens
#GovernmentIT
Treasury's Cold Feet on £1.7bn Shared Services Plan Threatens Major Savings
#AusNews #GovernmentIT #PublicSector #DigitalTransformation #AuditOffice
CERT-EU has confirmed an intrusion affecting mobile device management systems within the European Commission’s IT environment.
While containment was rapid and no devices were compromised, the potential exposure of staff contact data underscores the growing focus on management and orchestration layers as attack surfaces - especially in government environments.
Source: https://www.securityweek.com/european-commission-investigating-cyberattack/
💬 Are MDM platforms receiving enough security scrutiny today?
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#InfoSec #CERT #EUCyberSecurity #GovernmentIT #IncidentResponse #CyberDefense #TechNadu
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2025 was the breaking point. Forced hardware retirement and intrusive AI have sparked a mass migration to GNU/Linux. In this video, I explore:
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Recent reporting alleges multiple data exposures across Mexican government systems, affecting a broad range of public institutions.
If confirmed, the situation illustrates recurring challenges in public-sector security architecture, data segregation, and incident response coordination.
From an InfoSec perspective, this reinforces the need for layered defenses, regular audits, and breach containment planning.
Engage in the discussion and follow @technadu for sober, unbiased cybersecurity analysis.
Source: https://x.com/ivillasenor/status/2006058579703521737
#InfoSec #PublicSectorSecurity #DataProtection #CyberRisk #GovernmentIT #TechNadu
unning high-throughput networks with classified data?
The 10G SFP for secure agency use provides reliable, encrypted fiber connectivity for uninterrupted operations.
Do you prioritize encryption, redundancy, or speed in your secure networks?
#10GSFP #SecureNetworking #FiberOptics #GovernmentIT #NetworkReliability
Schleswig-Holstein replaces Microsoft Exchange & Outlook with Open-Xchange and Mozilla Thunderbird for 30,000 government employees.
Goal: digital sovereignty & reduced vendor dependency.
#OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #GovernmentIT #EmailMigration #TechNadu
Because nothing screams "cutting-edge technology" like 2000s XML stylesheets, right? 😅 Let's all shed a tear for bureaucratic websites still held together by digital duct tape. 🚧 Who knew the government's IT strategy was "If it ain't broke, we haven't tried to fix it yet"? 🙄
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11582 #cuttingEdgeTech #digitalDuctTape #governmentIT #XMLstylesheets #bureaucraticWebsites #HackerNews #ngated
Again, I must protest that the official website for making Parliamentary submissions has hard dependencies on proprietary scripts served from domains owned by Goggle; google.com and gstatic.com
So a known DataFarmer has a number of potential backdoors into a system that is recording people's contact details and political views. Considering the role tech corporations are playing in the new USAmerican fascism, the wisdom of this is even more questionable.
The German state of Schleswig-Holstein has begun replacing Microsoft Software with Open-Source Solutions. @univention is part of the future!
#opensource #digitalsouvereignty #governmentit
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250613-we-re-done-with-teams-german-state-hits-uninstall-on-microsoft
Now it would be remiss of me not to groan about the Parliament.govt.nz website. Specifically, demanding I run JavaScript from at least 2 different Goggle-controlled domains, before I could click the 'Submit' button to send in my recommendations.
That's right. On a government website we *have* to use to make official comments on potential legislation. Two domains owned by a corporate DataFarmer. Just to make *one* button work.
There are no word.
#GovernmentIT projects should have a long-term and holistic perspective, and embed #GoodGovernance and #DigitalSovereignty principles. The public benefit should also be clearly defined and go beyond the product itself. 2/6
The NZ government, and public services, need to protect themselves from recurrences of the CrowdStrike fail by following the example of EU moves towards digital independence and data sovereignty. By supporting further development of local IT infrastructure, powered by Free Code software not controlled by a handful of foreign companies.
Public money, public code.
"So here is a call from the NZOSS to the New Zealand Government to set up a Government centric Mastodon instance to provide a conduit for Agencies, Departments, Entities, Schools, Councils, DHB's and any other central or local government organisation to disseminate pertinent information in real time."
#CarlKlitscher, May 2022
Recent cyber attack on Afghanistan's government HR services – a stark reminder of the ever-present cyber threats. How can we enhance government cybersecurity? #CyberResilience #GovernmentIT #Afghanistan https://www.overtoperator.com/p/afghanistangovernmenthrservdlattackcyber
Im looking for examples of government agencies in the EU or elsewhere, who manage and support other agencies in the same country with IT services, and specifically those who manage servers in the Fediverse for other agencies. Do you have any suggestions of such? Or perhaps can repost this question? #fediverse #mastodon #governmentit #socialmedia #publicsector #EU
Alarming story on medical records system of the US Veterans Affairs Department — billions (!) over budget, four people died.
An indicator for how hard government IT is. At the Dutch Advisory Council on IT Assessments it is our responsibility to neutrally identify risks and offer advice on improvement for such projects of the Dutch government, independent of politics at play.
- https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/21/the-vas-new-medical-records-system-has-gone-haywire-congress-is-alarmed-00107655
- https://avandeursen.com/2022/08/15/member-advisory-council-ict-assessments/
NZ government website practices. Oh the humanity! With a general election coming up, the Electoral Commission is hiring. Here's the site where they list jobs:
Using this site without NoScript running loads scripts from no less than 4 third-party domains...
This is a great initiative by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with 18F and the United States Digital Service.
#DigitalService #GovernmentIT #TechnologyTransformation
https://statescoop.com/pennsylvania-code-pa-digital-services/
This is where the "Default to Open" play in the USDS Digital Service Playbook (https://playbook.cio.gov/#play13) comes in. If your source code contains secrets (sauce or otherwise), you're probably doing it wrong...
#GovernmentIT #InfoSec #DigitalService
https://blog.gitguardian.com/twitters-leak-illustrates-why-source-code-should-never-be-sensitive/
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