On this week’s episode of the Priorities podcast, Vermont CIO John Quinn says he’s furthering the state’s work on IT modernization with $140 million from the state legislature.

https://statescoop.com/it-modernization-vermont-john-quinn/

Also on the show, Oklahoma CISO Matt Singleton says his team is preparing for the first round of cyber grants coming later this year, even while state and local governments await additional guidance.

https://statescoop.com/video/oklahoma-ciso-matt-singleton-nascio/

In the news this week:

Virginia is moving to end the widespread telework that began during the pandemic.

https://statescoop.com/virginia-glenn-youngkin-telework/

Officials in Illinois’ largest county say a $25 million project upgrading more than 21,000 phone lines with VoIP is now complete.

https://statescoop.com/cook-county-voip/

A data breach of an education vendor in New York City’s public schools has spread across the rest of the state.

https://statescoop.com/illuminate-education-breach-new-york-state/

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On this week’s episode of the Priorities podcast, New York CTO Rajiv Rao on digital services.

https://www.nascio.org/press-releases/nascio-technology-champion-award-honors-new-yorks-rajiv-rao/

Curtis Wood, CIO of Massachusetts, talks about the state’s opportunities to continue the momentum around IT modernization.

In the news this week:

New data from NASCIO shows that only 45 percent of states have a strategy in place to modernize their application portfolios.

https://statescoop.com/application-modernization-states-nascio/

Analysts at the MissionSquare Research Institute say many public-sector workers continue to feel burned out by the COVID-19 crisis.

https://statescoop.com/state-employees-burnout-workforce-cios/

State CIOs say smaller-dollar projects can be just as influential as big ones.

https://statescoop.com/russ-nichols-california-tarek-tomes-minnesota/

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On this week’s episode of the Priorities podcast, Tennessee CIO Stephanie Dedmon says that state IT leaders prioritize diversity and inclusion in their workforce.

https://statescoop.com/diversity-state-it-technology-nascio/

Wyoming’s cybersecurity team, including state CISO Aaron Roberts and Mikki Munson, cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection program manager outline their approach to impending federal cybersecurity grants.

https://statescoop.com/state-and-local-groups-praise-passage-of-long-awaited-infrastructure-bill/

https://statescoop.com/state-local-cyber-grant-program-summer-cisa/

In the news this week:

A school district in Texas has fired an employee suspected of installing cryptocurrency mining devices in school buildings.

https://statescoop.com/galveston-school-district-cryptocurrency/

The U.S. Digital Response is adding a new program for local election officials.

https://statescoop.com/us-digital-response-election-program/

California’s technology agency has a new plan for the $3.25 billion statewide broadband network that Gov. Gavin Newsom OK’d last year.

https://statescoop.com/california-statewide-broadband-maps-draft-plan/

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On this week’s episode of the Priorities podcast, San Jose, California, Chief Innovation Officer Clay Garner explains how he’s approaching the digital divide in the city that is home to Silicon Valley.

https://statescoop.com/pedestrian-deaths-san-jose-lidar/

In the news this week:

Virginia has a new CIO.

https://statescoop.com/virginia-bob-osmond-cio-youngkin/

Texas’ Department of Information Resources has named Angelo State University as the first of several regional security operations centers around the state.

https://statescoop.com/west-texas-regional-soc-dir/

California’s Department of General Services added GitLab to the state’s software licensing program.

https://statescoop.com/california-gitlab-devops/

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On this week’s episode of the Priorities podcast, Kansas Chief Information Technology Officer DeAngela Burns-Wallace explains how the state prioritized collaboration and sharing in its approach to cybersecurity.

https://statescoop.com/kansas-cyber-deangela-burns-wallace/

Jenna Leveille, president of the National States Geographic Information Council, as well as Dan Ross, its interim executive director, highlight the state of public sector GIS and outline the organization’s priorities as its newly-hired executive director John Jordan comes on board.

https://statescoop.com/nsgic-executive-director-john-jordan/

In the news this week:

Colorado has a new chief information security officer.

https://statescoop.com/colorado-ciso-ray-yepes/

Major technology upgrades are coming to Vermont, state CIO John Quinn says.

https://statescoop.com/it-modernization-vermont-john-quinn/

Code for America will use a $100 million investment to launch a new initiative that helps state governments improve their social benefit programs.

https://statescoop.com/code-for-america-safety-net-innovation-lab-states/

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On this week’s episode of the Priorities podcast, Christopher Bramwell, Utah’s government operations privacy officer, outlines his approach to incubating a culture of data privacy across state government.

https://statescoop.com/utah-data-privacy-certified-professionals/

New York CIO Angelo “Tony” Riddick says the state saw “a recent uptick in traffic with IP addresses originating in Russia.”

https://statescoop.com/russian-cyber-threat-new-york-angelo-riddick/

In the news this week:

Virginia has a new chief data officer.

https://statescoop.com/virginia-chief-data-officer-ken-pfeil/

https://statescoop.com/virginia-cdo-ken-pfeil-interview/

Ransomware is “straining” local government services, according to a new bulletin from the FBI.

https://statescoop.com/fbi-ransomware-local-government/

State IT leaders are “still waiting to hear” from federal government officials on what programs will be allowed under a new federal cybersecurity grant program.

https://statescoop.com/state-tech-leaders-cyber-grants/

https://statescoop.com/state-local-cyber-grant-program-summer-cisa/

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On this week’s episode of the Priorities podcast, Delaware CIO Jason Clarke is trying to bring high-speed broadband to “each and every home and roadway.

https://statescoop.com/delaware-spends-56-million-on-broadband-for-all-effort/

Rep. Jim Langevin is looking toward the next phase of federal cybersecurity legislation.

https://upgather.com/cybersecurity-modernization-sled/live

https://statescoop.com/jim-langevin-cybersecurity-modernization/

Nic Perez, Chief Technology Officer for Cloud at ThunderCat Technology and Brian Schoepfle, Manager, Partner Solution Architects at Amazon Web Services, explain how state and local agencies can get a return on cloud investment quickly.

In the news this week:

New York City Mayor Eric Adams wants an investigation of Illuminate Education, a software vendor for the Department of Education that experienced a data breach in January.

https://statescoop.com/new-york-city-schools-vendor-breach/

Boston has a new CIO.

https://statescoop.com/boston-mayor-cio-santiago-garces-julia-gutierrez/

A new Deloitte survey says many government leaders have shifted to long-term planning as the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic begins to wane.

https://statescoop.com/deloitte-government-trends-post-covid/

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This episode of the Priorities Podcast is brought to you by Amazon Web Services, Thundercat and DLT.

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On this week’s episode of the Priorities podcast, Doug Levin, the national director of the K-12 Security Information Exchange, encourages more collaboration around cybersecurity.

https://statescoop.com/k12-cybersecurity-underreported-k12six/

Maryland chief data officer Pat McLoughlin says collaboration was essential for his state’s data inventory effort.

https://statescoop.com/maryland-first-chief-data-privacy-officers/

In the news this week:

Chicago has a new acting commissioner of the department that oversees its information technology agency.

https://statescoop.com/chicago-acting-commissioner-it-agency/

Cybersecurity leader Vinod Brahmapuram is stepping down from his post as Washington state’s CISO.

https://statescoop.com/washington-ciso-vinod-brahmapuram-leaving-government/

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is proposing $12.6 million to improve the city’s digital services in her 2023 budget.

https://statescoop.com/dc-mayor-budget-digital-services/

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On this week’s episode of the Priorities Podcast, Nebraska CIO Ed Toner explains how states should use data analysis as part of performance management efforts.

Texas CISO Nancy Rainosek, and state deputy CISO Matthew Kelly, offer an update on the state’s TX-RAMP effort.

https://statescoop.com/stateramp-used-10-states-cybe/

In the news this week:

Agencies in Montana’s state government are competing to take services 100 percent digital.

https://statescoop.com/montana-digital-services-100/

Cleveland, Ohio, has a new innovation and technology lead.

https://statescoop.com/cleveland-justin-bibb-cito-froilan-roy-fernando/

The Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center will receive $11 million as part of the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill President Joe Biden signed last week.

https://statescoop.com/ms-isac-11-million-federal-spending-omnibus/

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On this week’s episode of the Priorities Podcast, former New York City CTO John Paul Farmer reflects on his time in city government and how he’s bringing that experience to his new role at WeLink.

Karen Evans, the former U.S. administrator for e-government at the White House and former Department of Homeland Security CIO, offers tips on how to prevent more than 90 percent of ransomware attacks.

https://statescoop.com/preventing-ransomware-local-government/

In the news this week:

Miami city commissioners are claiming only a “basic” understanding of how the city’s arrangement with CityCoins works.

https://statescoop.com/miami-commissioners-miamicoin-crypto/

TransparentBusiness founder Alex Konanykhin is offering $1 million to any military official who arrests Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes due to the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

https://statescoop.com/transparentbusiness-founder-offers-1-million-for-putins-arrest/

A hacking group linked to the Chinese government has compromised the networks of at least six state governments, according to new research from Mandiant.

https://statescoop.com/mandiant-apt41-chinese-hackers-state-government/

Also new this week from StateScoop & EdScoop: A special report on data & analytics.

https://statescoop.com/special/state-local-data-analytics-2022/

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