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Skylar Rispens

StateScoop & EdScoop

Skylar Rispens is a reporter for StateScoop and EdScoop. She previously worked as a reporter specializing in education coverage for daily and weekly newspapers across Montana, where she currently resides.

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NASCIO honors Illinois CISO with cybersecurity leadership award

State

Arkansas IT Secretary Jonathan Askins speaks on a panel at the National Association of State Chief Information Officers annual conference in Minneapolis on Oct. 10, 2023. “I want the gamer, I want the kid that spends 24 hours in the basement playing games all day, that’s the kind of person I’m looking for,” Askins said while discussing workforce initiatives. (Colin Wood / Scoop News Group)

States vary on cyber awareness, workforce approaches

Cybersecurity

whole of state cyber panel NASCIO 2023 — From left: Alex Whitaker, NASCIO’s director of government affairs; Torry Crass, North Carolina’s chief risk officer; Ryan Murray, Arizona’s chief information security officer; and Jennifer Pittman-Leeper, a former security program manager in Arizona now working in the private sector. (Colin Wood / Scoop News Group)

Sustainable funding, workforce challenge whole-of-state cybersecurity transition

Cybersecurity

Phoenix buys software to optimize solid waste collections

City

Vermont’s AI council sets interim language to cite AI tools used in state work

State

Maryland Gov.-elect Wes Moore. (Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Images)

New Maryland grant program supports innovative infrastructure

County & Local

flags — The Arizona state flag flies between the United States flag and the Navajo Nation flag at the Visitor Center at Canyon de Chelly National Monument near Chinle, Arizona. (Robert Alexander / Getty Images)

Ransomware delayed pay for school staff in Arizona county

Cybersecurity

alan davidson ntia — Assistant Commerce Secretary Alan Davidson testifies on federal broadband funding before the Senate Commerce Committee. (U.S. Senate)

Government shutdown could delay connectivity efforts, leaders warn

State

Tennessee Chief Information Officer Stephanie Dedmon addresses the National Association of State Chief Information Officers’ midyear conference in National Harbor, Maryland, on May 2, 2023. (Colin Wood / Scoop News Group)

New NASCIO report examines 20 years of progress in digital government

Digital Services