Cybersecurity

At the NASCIO Annual Conference in Seattle, state chief information officers explored the challenges they're encountering as they move systems to the cloud and how to navigate them moving forward.

Unrelated to the security flaw recently discovered in a state website, an unauthorized person last week accessed the Public School and Education Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri, possibly exposing personal data.

The company's expansion into the public sector, and hire of an industry expert, come as states investigate widespread unemployment fraud and people increasingly rely upon online and mobile channels to access benefits.

An associate professor wants to use a two-year grant from the National Security Agency to develop a feature on phones and devices to automatically sense and respond to cyber attacks without action by the user.

Following a ransomware attack March 12 that shut down systems and forced the cancellation of classes, Buffalo Public Schools is spending nearly $10 million on network security, fraud monitoring and other services.

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) Annual Conference was held this past week as a live event in Seattle for the first time in two years. What happened, and what’s next?

During the second week of the federal Annual National Cybersecurity Summit, experts shared their thoughts on the roles of states and federal agencies when it comes to dealing with cyber attacks within state borders.

The two-year college in Georgia has delayed the announcement of a new training program with one of the world's largest tech companies, while it also plans new campuses and programs focused on workforce development.

Modeled on the FedRAMP program to pre-verify the cybersecurity of third-party vendors, StateRAMP is now working to get states on board and fill out its roster of companies certified to work with government.

Gov. Mike Parson intends to prosecute the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after the newspaper published a report detailing how Social Security numbers could be easily accessed through a state agency website.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch discovered that a website maintained by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education made Social Security numbers vulnerable in an application that searches for teacher credentials.

Despite the ever-growing need to secure the public sector, hiring and retaining cyber professionals in state and local government has never been harder. Here are three tactics that may help.

To safeguard schools in the state from cyber threats, a recently enacted law will allow the California Military Department to conduct independent security assessments to identify any weaknesses.

United Health Centers, which operates nearly two dozen health clinics, was reportedly targeted in a recent ransomware attack by computer hackers, exposing private patient information to the online world.

At the NASCIO Annual Conference Monday, Washington state Chief Privacy Officer Katy Ruckle explained that data privacy and cybersecurity are different, but you can’t have one without the other.

In his new role, Meyer will work as a consulting security architect for World Wide Technology in the company’s state and local government education division. He was appointed as state CISO in 2018.

Hoping to bolster the cybersecurity workforce in East Texas and nationwide, the University of Texas intends to start offering the program in fall 2022 through the Tyler campus' Soules College of Business.

Minnesota CISO Rohit Tandon explains that as cybersecurity threats grow, so does the need for staff to protect the state, and in a world of remote work, competition for skilled talent is fiercer than ever.