Coronavirus Relief Fund Guidance for State, Territorial, Local, and Tribal Governments

On April 22, 2020, The US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued additional guidance and a frequently asked questions (FAQs) document to advise organizations seeking relief through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act on the permitted use and allowed expenses of funds received. The CARES Act provides that payments from the Fund may only be used to cover costs that—

1. are necessary expenditures incurred due to the public health emergency with respect to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID–19);

2. were not accounted for in the budget most recently approved as of March 27, 2020 (the date of enactment of the CARES Act) for the State or government; and

3. were incurred during the period that begins on March 1, 2020, and ends on December 31, 2021.

Expenditures that are eligible for the CRF include:

Medical expenses

Public health expenses

Payroll expenses for public safety, public health, health care, human services, and similar employees whose services are substantially dedicated to mitigating or responding to COVID-19

Expenses incurred to facilitate compliance with COVID-19-related public health measures such as food delivery, distance learning, telework, paid sick and family and medical leave, maintaining jails, and caring for homeless populations

Expenses associated with the provision of economic support in connection with COVID-19, such as grants to small businesses to reimburse the costs of business interruption caused by required closures, payroll support programs, and unemployment insurance costs that aren’t otherwise reimbursed by the federal government

(Source: "CARES Act Relief Fund Guidance for Local Government Entities", by Jim Lanzarotta, https://www.mossadams.com/)

How BeyondTrust Can Help You Respond to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Protect Remote Workers, Employees, and Students from Malware and Ransomware

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 health crisis, malware attacks have increased 30,000% with the surge in remote work remote endpoints. Part of your telework strategy needs to include endpoint security. Fortunately, most phishing and malware attacks can be neutralized by removing local admin rights. With BeyondTrust, you can empower remote end-users to do their jobs without giving them admin rights or exposing your network.

Enabling Telework

The operational and security challenges involved in shifting to remote work are massive. Fortunately, there are solutions that can help. With BeyondTrust, you can give employees, vendors and admins secure access to desktops and systems, without a VPN. You can also empower your service desk to provide secure, reliable remote support to end-users and customers on or off your network.

  • Enable secure remote access without VPN
  • Support remote employees and systems

Enabling Distance Learning

Equipping students with devices to attend virtual school and enabled teachers to teach from home is one step toward enabling distance learning. But IT will still need to support everyone and ensure security? BeyondTrust has the tools you need for the online school. With BeyondTrust, you can:

  • Support iPads and tablets with screen sharing and remote control
  • Support Windows, Mac, and Chrome OS devices
  • Manage user privileges without giving everyone local admin rights

How Morris School District Adapted to Remote Learning During COVID-19

Morris School District, located in Morristown, New Jersey, has 10 public school buildings serving 5,200 students in grades pre-K through 12. The school district employs more than 900 teachers and staff. The district is an active member of the League of Innovative Schools, a consortium of 114 independent school districts committed to helping K-12 schools rise up to address education challenges by fostering the innovative use of technology in learning.

How the State of Illinois kept Data Protected and Employees Productive

In March 2020, all 30,000 employees for the state of Illinois were ordered to work from home in response to the spread of COVID-19. The state needed a tool to enable remote work as effectively, securely, and quickly as possible.

Learn how the state was able to deploy BeyondTrust Remote Support within days to seamlessly enable remote support, and securely manage and monitor remote sessions across their workforce.

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