Cybersecurity
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Following a turbulent year in cybersecurity, the state Governor’s Technology Office is seeking to hire a new cybersecurity lead to manage risk and compliance. Nevada’s permanent CISO retired in May 2025. -
State lawmakers are ramping up data center pursuit a year after passing controversial legislation aimed at drawing data centers to West Virginia at the expense of local government control and funding.
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An ambulance billing company has agreed to pay Connecticut and Massachusetts $515,000 for a 2022 data breach that exposed private information of nearly 350,000 residents, officials said.
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Cyberthreats to critical infrastructure for power, water and wastewater utilities were center stage Thursday, Sept. 22, as the three-day Cyber Physical Systems Summit concluded.
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The information was taken in late 2014 and may include users’ names, email addresses, birth dates, telephone numbers and security questions and answers.
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As more cars connect to the Internet and other computer networks, experts say that more hacking is inevitable.
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Sen. Charles Schumer noted that 911 dispatch centers often operate at near capacity under normal conditions. If calls were to spike even slightly, however, the system would become overwhelmed.
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Just over halfway through its five-year contract with a firm that specializes in training for management and IT professionals, the state’s Office of Information Services is focusing on creating IT leaders and is seeing improved performance.
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New legislation hopes to make elections more secure by making them less electronic.
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Cybersecurity is becoming part of the fabric of government operations, as proven by the fact that all respondents in NASCIO's biennial cybersecurity survey reported having an enterprise-level chief information security officer.
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State CIOs weigh in on the issue that's topping their priority lists.
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A spate of hacking attacks has put U.S. states on edge ahead of November’s presidential vote.
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Every two years, states are graded on how well they use technology. Our infographic outlines key findings from the 2016 survey.
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A recent assessment of the county's IT operations recommended that the staff level be increased by 27 to bring it in line with the industry standard of between 5 and 11 percent of its user base.
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By 2020, the cybersecurity industry will need 1.5 million more workers than will be qualified for jobs. What's the solution? Getting high school and college students excited about the industry.
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The money will be used to create a step-by-step response plan should the city's online infrastructure experience a breach, and to further train city and state employees so they know their roles if a cyber incident occurs.
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Ash Carter reaches out to the tech industry with an open ear for feedback, a push for collaboration and an influx of investment dollars for defense solutions.
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The technology, created by a company called Secure Cloud, substitutes a bit of randomly generated data or symbols for the sensitive data or command that is sandwiched between hundreds of lines of code in an encrypted packet of data sent between devices.
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The information that could be accessed was not more sensitive data, like Social Security or driver’s license numbers.
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Gregory Touhill, a retired brigadier general and deputy assistant secretary of cybersecurity and communications for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been named as the first federal CISO.
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Oregon is the fourth state to give its police access to AWS Cloud.
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