An executive order creates a statewide coordinating office to be staffed by four or five employees charged with ensuring everyone is online.

Newly-appointed statewide chief information officer Terrence Woods said his mission is to build a strong foundation of IT that will allow the state to grow.

Terrence Woods, who has spent the last eight months as the state's acting CIO, has been named the permanent replacement to Alex Pettit, who quit in February.

The state has made strides in getting rid of obsolete equipment and conducting vulnerability scans, but cybersecurity roles are still poorly defined and incident monitoring is murky.

State employees are no longer able to correspond with residents who are using several popular email services.

The additional technology arrives as city council prepares to vote on the Smart Cities PDX initiative.

"Facial recognition in American communities threatens freedom," the organization says of Amazon's Rekognition platform.

Alex Pettit, whose official end date is July 1, will help Secretary of State Dennis Richardson's office develop elections infrastructure.

The award recognizes Gov. Brown's transformative work in data and cybersecurity throughout the state.