West Virginia CIO Joshua Spence, Texas CIO Amanda Crawford and Texas Department of Information Resources Deputy Executive Director Steve Pier speak Tuesday, May 2 at the NASCIO midyear conference in Oxon Hill, Md. (Colin Wood / Scoop News Group)
A new cloud security program is one of several new cybersecurity programs underway in Texas, which also plans to recruit volunteer incident response teams.
Crawford, who joined the Texas Department of Information Resources as its executive director in February 2019, succeeds Todd Kimbriel, who retired in May.