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October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month!
The US has declared October the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Check out the 2019 Toolkit with key messaging, articles, social media, and more to promote it. And read:
One-Fifth of UK Public Sector Report More Than 1,000 Cyber Attacks Last Year and Can Expect More
Suppliers Making a Wave in the Cybersecurity Market
Recap & Recording: Public Procurement Workforce Development – Case Studies in Action!
In September Public Spend Forum talked to two procurement leaders in a webinar to share how they’ve used the Public Procurement Workforce Competency Model, created as a collaboration with NIGP and informed by procurement leaders, practitioners, experts and academics across public procurement to create something that would be simple to use but would have real-world applications for procurement. You can now listen to Patricia Innocenti, Deputy Director of Procurement and Material Management at Fairfax County Government, and Paul Brennan, Director of Purchasing for Rockland County, NY as they share case studies of how they use the Workforce Competency Model to improve staffing initiatives and procurement outcomes. Listen that here.
And in other news ...
Confidence Falls as Cyber Threats and AI Add to the Challenges of Risk Management
Government Contracts 2019: Trends - Beyond the Bottom Line
Wales’ largest public sector bodies commit to Buy Social
Understanding the Gender Pay Gap in the UK Public Sector
Whistleblowers to get better protection under new EU legislation
Innovative supplier selection is the key to government procurement success
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