Megan Clarke, former CIO for the city of Burbank, Calif., took over King County’s IT Department in January. She replaced David Mendel, who was with the county for 17 years before serving as interim CIO.
CitizenKey, which began development last year, is built on the ServiceNow platform and can be used by small cities and larger public agencies. It is designed to meet the demand for more government digital services.
The ransomware group Royal sent an extortion letter to Tucson Unified School District earlier this week following a successful cyber attack. Teachers are continuing in-person lessons even as some systems remain offline.
Responding to concerns about students using chatbot programs like ChatGPT to do their homework for them, OpenAI developed a classifier tool that can, with limited accuracy, identify text generated by an AI chatbot.
Following the December departure of former North Dakota CIO Shawn Riley, Gov. Doug Burgum has appointed Kuldip Mohanty to the role. Mohanty brings nearly three decades of private-sector IT experience.
Funded by a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, the University of Missouri will connect to the Wi-Fi servers of 26 rural school districts, scan them for potential threats and prepare schools to respond.
