Tag: State

June 26, 2019

As ransomware incidents against state and local governments continue to pile up, officials would likely leap at increased federal assistance for their cybersecurity needs, witnesses at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing said Tuesday. Cyberattacks can be costly to local […]

June 24, 2019

Vermont will fund homegrown internet service providers under a broadband expansion bill Gov. Phil Scott signed into law last week. The move makes Vermont the latest in a series of states that, underwhelmed by the federal government’s solutions to provide […]

June 18, 2019

When the Maryland Department of Human Services decided in 2017 to move the systems it uses to run the state’s benefit programs to a cloud platform, it could have gone with a “lift and shift” strategy, literally copying the files […]

June 13, 2019

In anticipation of the 2020 election, the Center for Internet Security says it plans to distribute as many as 150 additional Albert sensors, devices that monitor computer networks for intrusions, to state and local governments by the end of the […]

June 13, 2019

Lawmakers in Nevada on Wednesday sent their fourth piece of legislation concerning blockchain technology to Gov. Steve Sisolak in the past two weeks. The latest measure, Senate Bill 161, would provide businesses testing new uses of the distributed-ledger technology with […]

May 24, 2019

The Colorado Office of Information Technology announced Wednesday that it has hired its inaugural “blockchain solution architect” to devise ways the state can use the distributed-ledger technology in government. The position will be filled by Thaddeus Batt, the former chief […]

May 23, 2019

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday ordered the state government and all 67 counties to review the security of their election systems, with a particular focus on cybersecurity. The order came eight days after DeSantis disclosed that hackers linked to […]

May 2, 2019

The state of Vermont on Tuesday launched a new government website, the latest in a series of new products created by the state’s Agency of Digital Services that officials say have saved taxpayers $5.6 million over the last 18 months. […]

March 26, 2019

A coalition of 14 trade associations and professional organizations issued an open letter to state officials around the country Monday, urging them to oppose bills that would require government contractors to install invasive monitoring software that critics say would create […]

February 6, 2019

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis used his first budget since being inaugurated to propose eliminating the Agency for State Technology and sign the role of managing IT operations to the Department of Management Services. If carried out, it would be the […]

February 4, 2019

A new software platform monitoring drug prescriptions in Maryland is unlikely to singlehandedly reverse the state’s record-setting levels of fatal opioid overdoses, but officials said it could provide one piece of the solution. The new platform, designed to help pharmacies […]

January 30, 2019

A 21-member panel of elected officials, former U.S. Justice Department officers and nonprofit leaders convened last year by a University of Pittsburgh research institute to review Pennsylvania’s election systems released its final report Tuesday, recommending the state move as quickly […]

January 24, 2019

More than a month into a partial federal government shutdown, questions are starting to arise whether states and local governments, which rely on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for monitoring and intelligence about potential cyberattacks against their networks, are […]

January 9, 2019

While cryptocurrency and blockchain have been Krazy-glued into the financial and technology industries for several years, many state governments are still figuring out how to regulate those technologies, and incorporate them into their own functions. Last week, New York Gov. […]

November 28, 2018

The deadly and destructive wildfires that swept across California this month are a ripe opportunity for cybercriminals looking to swindle victims and individuals looking for ways to contribute to recovery efforts, a cybersecurity firm has warned. Agari, which specializes in […]

April 26, 2018

A group representing state chief information officers says progress was made in private talks with federal officials Wednesday on solving state government’s woes in complying with a varied and sometimes conflicting mass of regulations. The talks were held between approximately […]

March 31, 2017

The way local government handles geospatial information systems is fragmented across the country, the Public Technology Institute found in a March 2017 poll. In a “quick poll” of local government IT officials, PTI found that GIS operations were housed within […]

March 24, 2017

Government transparency can take many forms, and not all of them have bipartisan support. (Congressional Democrats’ demands for President Donald Trump’s tax returns are unlikely to get traction anytime soon, for example.) But at a March 23 House Committee on […]

March 20, 2017

President Donald Trump hasn’t yet announced a formal management agenda, but the White House budget blueprint released March 16 is explicitly links executive orders freezing civilian government hiring and launching a federal agency reorganization to plans to dramatically cut civilian […]

March 20, 2017

Energy and smart government dominate the project types undertaken in the fast-growing field of smart city technology and the Internet of Things industry, according to a report published by Navigant Research Thursday. Identifying more than 250 projects from 178 cities […]