State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In North Dakota, CISO Michael Gregg is running a security operations center that benefits his state and local government agency partners in several ways. Agencies often have trouble hiring qualified cybersecurity staff, Gregg says.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Technology is making it faster and easier than ever to deliver a quality customer experience, and government agencies must keep pace, implementing the digitized services their customers have grown to expect. In fact, 60 percent of customers think government needs to modernize how it delivers services, according to a Salesforce survey.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Despite the rapid growth of software marketplace usage in recent years, some state and local government (SLG) purchasers are holding back. This post debunks the most common myths keeping SLG agencies from embracing software marketplaces.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Government agencies have typically lagged slightly behind other sectors when it comes to technology adoption, but it’s clear that IT modernization has become a top concern for state and local governments.

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2023

Customer satisfaction and government haven’t always gone hand in hand. Today, however, state and local governments are determined to provide citizens with the same level of service they expect from their banks, internet providers or doctor’s offices. And their local fire department is…

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

For state and local government agencies, AI’s capabilities — new and old — enable higher-quality responses… While it’s fair to say that AI is not new to cybersecurity, it’s also true that we can now do more with AI to improve cybersecurity than ever before.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

State and local government agencies possess hoards of valuable data about citizens, businesses, healthcare organizations and other entities. Naturally, this makes them targets for cyberattacks that seek to pilfer data, extort government agencies and commit cyber fraud.

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2023

In the past few years, as state and local governments sought to modernize and release more digital services to meet the needs of citizens during the coronavirus pandemic, they have embraced an agile approach to government service delivery.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

But 9 times out of 10, what we’re really talking about is Software as a Service, especially among state and local government agencies that don’t necessarily have the in-house staff to develop, manage and secure their own apps in the cloud.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 26, 2024

Although smart city technology has long been a focus for local governments, a great deal of energy and investment has been put into projects such as smart streetlights, transportation infrastructure and digital kiosks.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Over the past few years, advanced network analytics changed the game, providing state and local governments keen insight into network performance and where things might go awry. Not long ago, IT departments used only a ping to test the speed and health of their networks. Where we came from, there was pretty much nothing.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 13, 2025

While artificial intelligence will dominate this years state and local government technology landscape, theres one iteration of AI that agencies will want to pay close attention to.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 6, 2024

State and local government agencies need a clear plan that delivers business continuity, speeds recovery time and… Today, it can take days or weeks for an organization to recover from cyber incidents and resume operations.

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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 10, 2024

In an age when cyberthreats loom large, government agencies are prime targets, and safeguarding sensitive information has never been more critical. How can state and local government agencies properly protect their confidential information before it gets into the wrong hands, thereby averting financial disaster?

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In 2020 and 2021, many state and local government agencies invested in new PC fleets to accommodate pandemic-induced remote working conditions. We were just starting to get on Teams and Zoom all day long, Jen Larson, general manager for the commercial clients segment at Intel, tells StateTech.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Multicloud and hybrid cloud environments have become the new norm for state and local government agencies. Meanwhile, IT modernization has become a core priority for all levels of government. In 2023, 88% of state CIOs began, or resumed, the process of expediting cloud adoption.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

State and local government agencies carry the heavy burden of collecting and managing large amounts of sensitive data to bring essential services to citizens. Naturally, they want to be on the cutting edge of cybersecurity, which is where the zero-trust security model comes in.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2023

Millions of Americans rely on state and local government technology systems every day. From drivers licenses to marriage certificates, every day interactions with government depend on technology. Amazon Web Services (AWS) recognizes these luminaries of state and local government technology.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

State and local governments increasingly have technologies at their disposal that make it easier to manage the reams of data they collect. The emerging data management design known as data fabric allows agencies to link disparate information repositories. And cloud-based tools can help governments automate data analysis.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

This means that state and local governments should not assume that any user, device or application is safe, even if they are inside the network perimeter. State and local governments, as well as educational institutions, have become increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks in recent years.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As talent shortages grow, job vacancies are commonplace across governmental agencies. Add the challenge of retaining existing talent and government agencies face a perfect storm. Due to a technology called intelligent document processing (IDP), agencies can accomplish their missions faster—even as vacancies mount.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 6, 2025

After completion of the program, Precise achieved Advanced tier partner status and was selected by a federal government agency to create a machine learning as a service (MLaaS) platform on AWS. The platform helped the agency digitize and process forms, pictures, and other documents.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Government agencies have come to embrace commercial, off-the-shelf products as more practical in today’s fast-paced tech environment. State and local agencies have embraced COTS products, but they also have begun to realize they need customization and plenty of support for these new products.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

From collected tax records to processed licenses, state and local governments need to gather and store a multitude of documents, and many of those records need to be kept for years, if not forever.

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 20, 2023

Top of mind for state and local government agencies is whether their cyber infrastructure is stable enough to safeguard their most treasured asset — their data — as the looming threat of cyberattacks persists.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

For state and local government agencies, choosing the right one can make the difference between a prolonged crash and recovery in a matter of seconds. When disaster strikes and computer systems go down, everything depends on how critical data is backed up. Various technologies offer different capabilities.

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 19, 2023

So too do new offerings to help state and local governments recover as quickly as possible. Government agencies often turn to Disaster Recovery as a Service to ensure a rapid return to operations. Disasters come in all shapes and sizes. The goal is to replicate both data and infrastructure offsite — often in the cloud.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It’s a precarious time for state and local governments. Bad actors have grown more sophisticated and discovered new ways to attack agencies, resulting in several notable incursions. Meanwhile, identity fraud has become a serious problem for local agencies.

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 18, 2023

Today, state and local government agencies have become more comfortable with moving more applications to the cloud. Many early adopters limited their use of cloud services to long-term storage for backup data. But over time, IT professionals have become more comfortable with relying on cloud service providers.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

NCDIT oversees IT services for the state of North Carolina and is the primary IT service provider for state government agencies. The agency also provides services for local governments and educational institutions. Department of Information Technology in March 2021 as secretary and CIO.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

Government agencies handle vast volumes of bureaucratic documents daily, ranging from tax forms to medical records. By integrating human review into the artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) workflow, government agencies maintain quality control.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 27, 2024

McGinty notes however, that local governments may buy less regularly and in smaller quantities than for-profit landscaping businesses. Local governments manage around 11.8 The group’s “Protected Areas Database of the United States” estimates the vast expanses of public land that government jurisdictions maintain.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

For state and local government agencies and their teams, the question is always, “How can we use technology to do something better than we did before?” With the essential resources that states provide, agencies that work to innovate and leverage data analytics to improve their services can save lives.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2024

Environmental sustainability is an exciting and challenging opportunity for state and local government agencies. Actively supporting sustainability initiatives gives governments the chance to participate in the environmentally conscious actions their communities want, while supporting their public lands.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2023

All modern organizations, including state and local government agencies, have data platforms to house, transfer, modify and manage their digital information. State and local governments would do well to modernize their data platforms effectively. But an organization shouldn’t stop at simply having a data platform.

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2024

Hyperconverged infrastructure is popular among state and local government agencies seeking to simplify management of their data centers. About 80% of enterprises in general say they’ve expanded HCI deployments at the edge to help connect disparate tools and technologies. But is this approach a viable cloud alternative?

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Government Technology Insider

MARCH 30, 2023

Digital transformation and modernization activities were fast-tracked across the public sector to allow government agencies to operate at full capacity under unusual circumstances. The post Boosting Agility for State and Local Government Finance & Budget Offices appeared first on Government Technology Insider.

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