The county of about 145,000 residents made relatively speedy progress bringing systems back online and did not pay the ransom, the county's CIO said.

The department has revealed "Patternizr," a tool used the past two year years to spot crime patterns nearly invisible to the human eye.

Karen Jackson has been appointed to Virginia's emergency management and homeland security advisory panel.

A new bill in the state legislature would create an advisory group to look at distributed-ledger technology in managing farms and the food supply.

The duplicate payments totaled $26 million. But officials have fixed the program that controls tax refunds and are now recouping the wayward funds.

Charles Grindle will remain the country's highest-paid state CIO after the Kentucky Senate declined to vote on a bill reducing his $375,000 salary.

The annual StateScoop 50 Awards honor the best and the brightest who make state government more efficient and effective.

A new bill from the California senator would fund digital service teams modeled after the White House's U.S. Digital Service agency.

As state lawmakers approve closure of the Utah Science, Technology and Research Initiative, governors in other states plan new ways to innovate.

Ninety-two percent of local governments said in a recent survey they struggle to find IT staff with the necessary skills.