The state is partnering with Cisco and other tech firms to offer free training to former military members pursuing cybersecurity careers.

Technology officials in North Carolina and Virginia are bolstering emergency management agencies' resources and securing their data centers ahead of the storm.

A group of 13 top statewide CDOs wrote in support for the Federal Data Strategy initiatives, but is asking for closer collaboration with state and local government stakeholders.

The credit-rating firm said it will upgrade its IT operations and conduct regular internal audits in response to its massive 2017 data breach.

Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles; and Asheville, North Carolina, are among the cities that were awarded for their creative uses of Amazon's cloud-computing platform.

The new initiative is led by the National Governors Association and will convene private- and public-sector groups with the common goal of bolstering state government cybersecurity planning and infrastructure.

Mecklenberg County recovered without paying the ransom, but cyberattacks are evolving and ransomware is so last year, officials said at a D.C. cybersecurity conference.

After years of refining the North Carolina Government Data Analytics Center, the state’s CIO shared with a NASCIO conference audience the importance of communication and getting the business to focus.

The new organization will be responsible for sharing threat information with public and private sector partners.