The Federal government’s Joint Ransomware Task Force (JRTF) kicked off its inaugural meeting with a discussion of new initiatives to collaborate with state, local, tribal, and territorial entities to protect against ransomware intrusions and disrupt malicious actors, according to a September 14 press release from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
State government CIOs are set to explain the latest strategies and tactics for automating government to improve service delivery and cybersecurity at MeriTalk’s State Tech Vision virtual event on September 27.
The City of San Jose, California has awarded $3 million to Actelis Networks for a multi-year program to modernize and scale an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), allowing the city to upgrade its existing traffic communications network.
John Quinn, the state of Vermont’s chief information officer (CIO) and secretary of the Vermont Agency of Digital Services (ADS), will be leaving his post later this month to work in the private sector, Gov. Phil Scott announced.
The Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance has been awarded a $3 million grant by Google.org to build out additional capacity to broaden participation in computer science education across the nation.
The first annual report that tracks how state education agencies and policymakers are adapting to a post-pandemic digital world revealed that while some states have made great strides to support digital learning, many must do more to prioritize edtech. The 2022 State EdTech Trends Report – published by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) […]
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is still taking steps to recover from a ransomware attack on its IT systems last week.
Amid the Bay Area’s recent record-breaking heat wave, the City of San Francisco took the opportunity to launch a heat mapping effort to collect data on the impacts of extreme heat.
The Billington CyberSecurity Summit closed out day two with a discussion with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Senior Election Security Advisor, Kim Wyman, on the necessity of voting infrastructure protection in the upcoming national elections.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it is committing over $81 million in a new funding round for the Emergency Connectivity Program (ECP) to provide digital services for students in communities across the country.
