State Tech Magazine

APRIL 16, 2025

In Cobb County, Ga., outside of Atlanta, members of an organized theft ring ran out of a store with armloads of expensive athletic wear, hopped in a getaway car with a covered license plate and sped off out of the countys jurisdiction.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2025

Agencies need to confront the growing problem of shadow artificial intelligence through policy updates and the implementation of new security measures. Microsoft and LinkedIn found 78% of AI users bring their own tools to work, and 52% are reluctant to admit using it, according to the 2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2022

These attacks impact the security of sensitive data and can also cost millions of dollars — at a time when states and cities are already facing tight budgets. State and local governments face cyberthreats that are expanding at an alarming rate. Since last year, cyberattacks against local governments increased by 70 percent.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

These two issues are closely connected: As states pursue ways to offer new services to citizens and improve current ones, they also face greater security challenges. The nature of state government IT operations can create additional security challenges.

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2025

The prank sounds harmless enough: High school students wait until dark, pour soap into a public fountain and laugh as it fills up with bubbles. But when it happened 17 times in one year ruining several $30,000 pumps and requiring a two-day cleanup process each time city officials in Opelika, Ala.,

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2023

A security operations center, or SOC, can be the nerve center of a strong state and local cybersecurity effort. SOC teams are charged with detecting, preventing, investigating and responding to cyberthreats, ideally with round-the-clock monitoring of an organization’s network. That’s a lot for any state office or agency to take on.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

New Jersey Judiciary CIO Jack McCarthy was faced with a challenge: how to ensure these newly remote workers could securely access sensitive systems using legacy architecture. McCarthy turned to solutions from Zscaler and started to forge a path toward zero-trust security.

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Criminal Justice Information Services Division of the FBI provides security guidance to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies accessing criminal justice information currently or previously managed by the bureau.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As state and local government agencies modernize IT infrastructure to support hybrid work environments and cutting-edge citizen services, they also find themselves having to secure access to a mix of modern and legacy systems. Enter identity and access management.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

The reality is that government networks may have a lot of connected equipment that IT staff dont manage or care about, which can create headaches for security teams. Ideally, in such situations, the security team will tell IT that if an asset is on the network, it needs to be in a configuration management database.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The colocation provider handles cooling, building security, network connectivity, environment monitoring, maintenance and power infrastructure. While state and local agencies may have their own data centers, colocation offers an alternative. With colo, government entities fill rented space with their own IT equipment.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In fact, in fiscal 2023, agencies reported more than 32,000 cyber incidents to the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a jump of almost 10 percent over the number disclosed in 2022. “Risks to our nation’s essential technology systems are increasing.”

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 31, 2023

Previously, the governor established the state’s first Joint Security Operations Center and based it in Brooklyn. In June 2022, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed Colin Ahern as the first chief cyber officer for the state.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Securing data centers is of prime importance to state and local governments as they seek to modernize their IT infrastructure and take advantage of technology refreshes to support their distributed workforces. Three important avenues are identity and access, the digital infrastructure, and security processes and technologies.

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2024

State and local government teams are constantly thinking about how to improve customer service. Making things more efficient, reducing barriers to doing business with agencies, simplifying paperwork and moving to online processes wherever possible are all top-of-mind strategies for managers who want to deliver better constituent services.

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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 5, 2025

Security fragmentation remains a significant challenge for departments managing hybrid cloud environments because their agencies often own independent on-premises and cloud infrastructure. Failure to align this infrastructure results in inconsistent security policies, visibility gaps and access management issues.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

From voter registration databases to electronic voting machines, our election infrastructure is in hackers’ crosshairs, and hardening it is a matter of national security. As we race toward Nov. 5, state leaders must consider cybersecurity’s role in safeguarding election integrity.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

When Shane McDaniel, the CIO of Seguin, Texas, walks out to his truck after work, it’s not uncommon for someone in the parking lot to shout: “Nice try, Shane — I didn’t click on it!”

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Security 307

State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Neglecting regular patch management can create gaping security holes, leaving agencies susceptible to malware, ransomware and other attacks. Ignoring updates to software and operating systems that prevent exploitation of known security flaws can prove devastating both operationally and financially. million in 2023

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 5, 2024

With election security a top concern, Arctic Wolf commissioned the Center for Digital Government to survey over 130 state and local government leaders about their perceived state of readiness. Spoiler alert: They don’t feel ready.

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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 15, 2025

30, 2024, shortly after introducing its first information security policy. As part of its risk management plan, the county also joined StateRAMP for its standardized security certification of cloud vendors. Arapahoe County, Colo., adopted its first cyber incident response plan Sept.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In January, a cyberattack against water utilities in small Texas towns caused water to overflow in the city of Hale Center. There were 37,000 attempts in four days to log in to our firewall,” Mike Cypert, city manager of Hale Center, told the Associated Press.

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

Andy Hanks, who formerly served as Montana’s CISO, was once reminded the hard way to ensure that vendor contracts contain thorough security policies.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2025

Federal civilian agencies understand that artificial intelligence will be increasingly useful in streamlining and automating complex workloads. They hope to use data-driven insights to enhance decision-making and address thorny problems.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency provides some starting points for doing so in its #Protect2024 campaign. As the 2024 election season continues, local jurisdictions administering voting sites should seek to ensure strong cybersecurity for their organizations. Here are six steps recommended by CISA.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 6, 2024

According to the most recent Rubrik Zero Labs report, “The State of Data Security: Measuring Your Data’s Risk,” 94 percent of IT and security leaders reported that their organizations experienced significant cyberattacks last year; one-third of these victims endured at least one ransomware attack.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The State Department’s law enforcement arm, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, defends the department and the foreign affairs community by applying cybersecurity, technology security and law enforcement expertise to help advance U.S. foreign policy and safeguard national security interests.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

Agencies looking for solutions to support their security operations centers will likely come across three proven tactics that can help governments stay secure and protect citizen data: Security information and event management (SIEM) Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) Extended detection and response (XDR) Each of these centralized (..)

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Recent research has found that attacks against governments worldwide increased by 1,885 percent in 2021, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has highlighted ongoing threats to state facilities such as water and wastewater systems.

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2025

The value of citizen data is gold for planning secondary attacks, and cybercriminals know that many local governments are underfunded and understaffed when it comes to IT security, which makes them tempting targets for ransomware.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 13, 2025

Lets explore agentic AI, its benefits and how implementing it on-premises can help with data control and security. Agentic AI AI systems that act autonomously to access and synthesize relevant information is poised to positively impact government agencies ability to deliver quality citizen services efficiently.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency launched its first public service announcement recently with a short video that reminds the public to use basic cybersecurity protections to keep themselves safe online. “We We want to make keeping information safe a habit, just like buckling a seat belt,” said CISA Director Jen Easterly.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency reported that international adversaries were discovered on U.S. Critical infrastructure, crucial to our everyday lives, could fall victim to malicious activity from hackers. In February, the U.S. critical infrastructure networks, where they had remained undetected for up to five years.

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Security 176

FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

That is the guidance from the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), which unveiled its Roadmap to Enhancing Internet Routing Security on Sept. Border Gateway Protocol, a data routing framework developed in 1989 on the premise that all routed contents could be trusted, can no longer be trusted.

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2025

Isolated recovery environments with immutable data vaults provide the highest level of security and recovery against That leaves crooks without a way to extort your organization, and that means no payouts for ransomware attacks.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Department of Homeland Security, through the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, announced a first-of-its-kind cybersecurity grant program for state, local and territorial (SLT) governments across the country. In September, the U.S.

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As far back as 1996, when Phrack magazine published an article by the hacker Aleph One titled “Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit,” the world has known about memory safety vulnerabilities and how malicious actors can exploit them. Now, the the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and cybersecurity authorities…

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