Given said his early focus will be helping agencies tackle legacy technology systems, expand digital identity services and build on California's leadership in artificial intelligence.
Catalin Dragomir, also known as inthematrix1, has been sentenced to prison time after pleading guilty to charges of obtaining information from a protected computer and aggravated identity…
Tennessee Chief Information Officer Kristin Darby, New York State Director of Security and Intelligence Colin Ahern, Florida CIO Warren Sponholtz and Samir Jain, vice president of policy at the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology, are sworn in before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection on May 21, 2026. (Homeland Security Committee Events / YouTube)
"We are being asked to manage nation-state risks while our federal partners step back,” Colin Ahern, New York State’s director of security and intelligence, told House lawmakers.
Massachusetts Chief Information Officer Jason Snyder said the state's cyber incident response team is meeting weekly to discuss threats, including to the state's operational technology.
Texas Chief Information Officer Tony Sauerhoff says cybersecurity leaders must provide a "clear and accurate picture of the posture, however good or bad that might be."