Cybersecurity

K-12 cybersecurity leaders say AI can’t fully automate cybersecurity, cloud vendors are not the solution to data governance, teachers should not use unvetted apps, and student accounts need multifactor authentication.

The Southern California city added $1 million to its cybersecurity budget during a 16-month investigation into a 2023 network breach that exposed sensitive data. Officials are now notifying people who may have been affected.

Governments are increasingly using specialized anonymous digital tip lines to tackle niche community issues. The data, however, has become an attractive target for threat actors. Here's how one company is responding.

Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate talked about the federal government’s changes to cybersecurity funding and said he “would not want to see” programs go away. The state, he said, does “count a lot on those cyber protections.”

Lawmakers in several states are considering bills that would give residents more control over their data. A measure under consideration in Texas would formally recognize global privacy controls.

An informative event last week hosted attendees from law enforcement, the judicial system, private businesses and educational institutions such as Troy University, Wallace Community College and local high schools.

Tariffs and DOGE cuts are grabbing headlines at the moment, and both will likely impact government cybersecurity at the federal, state and local levels. Let’s explore.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has reported a cyber attack that is affecting communications and operations including vehicle inspections. Some services will be shuttered through the weekend.

A Massachusetts school district is working with third-party cybersecurity experts and law enforcement officers to investigate whether them network intruder accessed anyone’s personal information.

The cybersecurity incident, which dates to July, stemmed to an agency that “provides debt collection services to city government,” a city spokesperson said in a news release, noting there’s “no indication that anything other than debt collection services data was affected.”

Out of 310 school leaders surveyed by Education Week Research Center in January and February of 2025, 74 percent said they expect the information they collect about vendors' cybersecurity protections will increase.

K-12 cybersecurity experts are concerned that funding cuts and policy changes by the Trump administration will kneecap information-sharing networks that schools rely on to stay ahead of cyber criminals and data leaks.

The university's College of Engineering and Mines will launch a bachelor's program in cybersecurity engineering this summer and a Ph.D. program in artificial intelligence this fall, the first of its kind in the region.

A bill moving through Congress proposes full scholarships for two-year degrees on the condition that students work two years at the federal, state, local or tribal level after graduating.

After a nearly five-month investigation, officials determined that compromised sensitive information included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, financial account information, passport numbers and more.

Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp acknowledged that a data breach of a county contractor's system may have exposed the private information of as many as 14,000 ambulance customers.

The State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program expires in September — but state CIOs told a congressional subcommittee Tuesday the program is a success that should be built on, not ended. Its future remains unclear.

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