The number of new applications and new devices coming into use means governments have to architect their networks for defense, San Francisco CIO Linda Gerull said.

State CIO David Cagigal encourages other state IT leaders to think long-term when considering modernization for the applications they oversee.

Following recommendations from election-security experts and the national academies, the state will review 5 percent of all ballots cast in elections, beginning in November.

Adams County's membership in a multi-jurisdictional healthcare consortium allowed the breach to spread far beyond its borders.

Randall Charles Tucker will serve 20 months behind bars for a 2015 distributed denial-of-service attack that crippled the city's websites for six days.

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.

Texas has the most public safety agencies with drone programs, but the technology can be found in use almost everywhere.

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New post-election audits and the installation of paper-based voting machines are among the projects the federal grants will support.