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Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies

SecureWorld News

Nonprofits often juggle tight budgets and unique operational demands, making it even more difficult to keep sensitive information safe—but here's the thing: you don't need a fortune to build a strong defense against the possible cyber threats out there. Let's take a closer look at some key cybersecurity strategies for nonprofits to consider.

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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

CIO Business Intelligence

Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. Morgan Stanley’s IT department, for example, is helping nonprofits as part of its Technology Change Makers program.

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Launch success brings Blue Origin closer to resuming crewed suborbital space trips

GeekWire

This mission, known as NS24, carried 33 science payloads in the crew capsule, providing a few minutes of zero gravity to study the effects on samples and hardware. For example, an elevator was recently added to New Shepard’s launch tower, supplementing seven flights of stairs.

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Per Scholas redefines IT hiring by diversifying the IT talent pipeline

CIO Business Intelligence

To do so, the organization collected retired computers and laptops from companies, fixed them up, and redistributed them back into the community through schools and nonprofits. When CEO Plinio Ayala joined Per Scholas in 2003, he noticed there weren’t enough skilled technicians to fix the hardware the organization collected.

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Researchers find 87% of U.S. classic video games are out of print and ‘critically endangered’

GeekWire

For example, the original 2005 PlayStation 2 game Yakuza is considered out of print by the VGHF, even though a full remake, Yakuza Kiwami, was released in 2016. The VGHF is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and teaching of the history of video games. Remasters and re-releases counted, but remakes did not.

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Destination Spokane: How remote work and new arrivals are changing one tech community

GeekWire

Megan Hulsey of Craft3, a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution. At the same time, connecting with people working remotely in Spokane can be hit and miss, said Megan Hulsey , a Spokane-based vice president and business lender with Craft3 , a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution.

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Mark Zuckerberg wants to build a voice assistant that blows Alexa and Siri away

Vox

That’s going to require advances across a whole range of areas, from new hardware devices to software for building and exploring worlds. The demonstrations are exploratory; Meta’s demo videos on Wednesday included disclaimers at the bottom that many of the images and examples are strictly for illustrative purposes and not actual products.