Avoid one-size-fits-all bundles with procurement frameworks that let each agency rightsize hardware, data plans and support.

Tech leaders from Florida, New York and Tennessee are pushing to reauthorize the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program, ...

As AI-driven attacks go after legacy systems, states can close the execution gap by offering security as a shared service, ...

Government transformation requires a long-term strategy built on modern infrastructure, trusted data and a commitment to ...

In the aftermath of the catastrophic July 2025 flooding along the Guadalupe River in Central Texas, the hard work of recovery unfolded amid immense loss and destruction. Torrential rains transformed ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Residents can get a lot done in a government office. They can go ...

State and local governments are starting to reconsider what their service desks can do. For years, the help desk was treated mainly as a back-office IT function: Take the call, open the ticket, fix ...

Wyoming has replaced legacy anti-virus technology with an artificial intelligence-powered detection platform that can identify malicious behavior before a payload executes, quarantine affected systems ...

Public sector security teams are good at mobilizing when an attack is underway. The harder problem is finding the conditions that make an attack possible before someone exploits them. For years, I’ve ...

For years, the default question a state CIO asked vendors was simple: “Is artificial intelligence in your product, and can we turn it off?” But according to a panel of state and local security leaders ...

State and local agencies are under increasing pressure to modernize physical security systems that were originally designed around centralized video monitoring and passive recording. Those legacy ...

Kevin Cusimano is CIO for the City of Carmel, Ind., where he leads enterprise technology strategy, cybersecurity, networking, data governance and smart city initiatives. With more than 25 years of IT ...