Fremont County in Colorado continues to assess and recover from a recent cyberattack, which affected county computer systems and resulted in the shutdown of all county buildings, which remain closed to date.
Nancy Rainosek, chief information security officer for the state of Texas, explained how her office has been providing secure technical infrastructure to employees executing their duties in a hybrid work environment, during an August 17 event entitled Stuck in Neutral: How to Jumpstart Change in Government, hosted by GovLoop.
Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., introduced legislation on August 4 that aims to strengthen the cybersecurity posture of small businesses by providing funding to Small Business Development Centers that will help businesses with security.
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York State has announced the start of a new $30 million cybersecurity program that aims at helping local governments across the state.
Witnesses at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on July 20 provided lawmakers with feedback about how local election officials are viewing security information being supplied to them by the Federal government, along with the need to train local officials on ways to defeat misinformation.
The Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) has yet to fully implement important and critical cybersecurity measures, according to an audit report put out by the Secretary of State Shemia Fagan.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz have announced $15.6 million to expand cybersecurity and IT training in Florida at both the K-12 and higher education levels.
The Department of Energy (DoE) said on July 6 that it will prioritize awards under a $2.3 billion power grid modernization grant funding program to include systems at risk of disruptive events including cyber attacks.
The Ceder Rapids Community School District (CRCSD) was hit by a cybersecurity incident that has caused the school district to close for the remainder of the week.
A cyberattack on IT services provider Geographic Solutions, Inc. (GSI) has disrupted the provision of unemployment and workforce benefits for thousands of people in several states and Washington, D.C.
