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  • Industry Insider — California is always looking for new ways to provide you, our readers, with job-critical news and information, and to that end, we’d like to survey you.
  • As part of Industry Insider — California’s ongoing efforts to educate readers on state agencies, their IT plans and initiatives, here’s the latest in our periodic series of interviews with departmental IT leaders.
  • Industry Insider — California is pleased to welcome Talend to the Industry Insider family. Talend, based in San Mateo, offers the only end-to-end platform supporting government and education with data integration, integrity, quality and governance, making data easily discoverable, understandable and easy to use and shared across any cloud, hybrid, or multicloud environment. The company, which has been chosen by more than 7,250 organizations, offers no-code and low-code modules that give data experts and organizations the ability to promote the health of their data. For more information about the company’s government solutions, visit Talend or contact Dustin DiCarlo or Nic Bojarski.
  • If you’re a state, county or local government chief information officer, chief technology officer or IT director, we’re interested in hearing your forecast for California government IT work during 2023.
  • Industry Insider — California will not publish a newsletter Thursday or Friday in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. The newsletter will resume Monday morning.
  • Industry Insider — California is pleased to welcome Roundstone Solutions to the Industry Insider family. Roundstone Solutions is an experienced value-added reseller with a particular emphasis on the public sector, and especially on state departments and agencies. Its state contracts include the Enterprise Technology contract for Nutanix products and services. The Orinda-based company’s focuses include modernizing the on-prem data center; implementing modern backup and recovery architecture; and security operations. For more information, visit roundstonesolutions.com or contact Tim Joyce.
  • As part of Industry Insider — California’s ongoing efforts to educate readers on state agencies, their IT plans and initiatives, here’s the latest in our periodic series of interviews with departmental IT leaders.
  • Industry Insider — California is pleased to welcome Kate Bell Strategies to the Industry Insider family. Founded by Kate Bell in 2021, Kate Bell Strategies is a full-service lobbying firm that’s based in Sacramento. Its areas of focus are budget advocacy, legislative representation, regulatory affairs and procurement; clients include American Airlines, Google and H&R Block. Bell previously was a partner at Capitol Advocacy where, during 14 years there, she headed the company’s tax and procurement practice. The two companies partner with a number of new and existing clients. For more information, visit katebellstrategies.com or contact Kate Bell.
  • Industry Insider — California wants to hear your thoughts on what we’ll see next year.
  • Key state officials and a market expert will offer analysis and forecasts at the State of Technology California Industry Forum, scheduled for Dec. 12 in Sacramento.
  • As part of Industry Insider — California’s ongoing efforts to educate readers on state agencies, their IT plans and initiatives, here’s the latest in our periodic series of interviews with departmental IT leaders.
  • Industry Insider — California is pleased to welcome StackNexus to the Industry Insider family. StackNexus, founded in 2017, is a global no-code technology services company that helps organizations attain operational excellence through digital transformation. StackNexus helps organizations build enterprise-grade software at scale easily through drag and drop, helping the businesses be efficient, scale, and sustain. For more information, go to StackNexus or contact Eduardo Parra.
  • California’s chief information security officer, Vitaliy Panych, outlined some tips during a recent podcast focusing on the people in the state’s technology community. He also spoke about an off-the-job passion that keeps him calm and focused.
  • As part of Industry Insider — California’s ongoing efforts to educate readers on state agencies, their IT plans and initiatives, here’s the latest in our periodic series of interviews with departmental IT leaders.
  • The Palo Alto-based company, which was five years old, had served 35 local governments. It was listed in the most recent GovTech 100 and had recently worked with CentralSquare Technologies.
  • Industry Insider — California is pleased to welcome Abnormal Security to the Industry Insider family. Abnormal Security is a leading cloud-native email security platform that utilizes artificial intelligence-based behavioral data science to shut down socially engineered, unique email attacks that might otherwise elude traditional secure email gateways. The San Francisco-based company offers a different approach that detects and guards against attacks including business email compromise, phishing, malware, ransomware, social engineering and internal account compromise. It profiles known good behavior, identifies vendors and analyzes more than 45,000 signals to isolate anomalies; it integrates quickly with multiple Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace tenants, setting baselines and protection within hours. For more information, visit abnormalsecurity.com or contact Zach Oxman.
  • The department issued the latest in its series of updates on California’s progress toward building a statewide broadband network, which includes details on the administration of federal funding.
  • As part of Industry Insider — California’s ongoing efforts to educate readers on state agencies, their IT plans and initiatives, here’s the latest in our periodic series of interviews with departmental IT leaders.
  • Android phones have the technology built in. In addition, 95,000 MyShake app users also received it.
  • Their achievements were recognized last week at the California Cybersecurity Education Summit.
  • Industry Insider — California is pleased to welcome Zoom to the Industry Insider family. Zoom’s “frictionless,” secure, scalable communications platform is used by state and local government in situations ranging from vital agency communications to citizen services, and from video-first judicial systems to enhanced emergency response. The San Jose-based company helps government improve decision-making, streamline operations and enhance communications. ZfG, its exclusive Zoom for Government platform dedicated for government, helps meet the dynamic needs of today’s mission-critical environments. It is authorized at the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) and StateRAMP moderate levels; and has achieved a provisional authorization from the Defense Information Systems Agency for the Department of Defense at Impact Level 4. For more information, visit zoom.us.
  • The California Department of Technology will welcome several new senior staffers following their appointments Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom — and, in one instance, after state Senate confirmation.
  • As part of Industry Insider — California’s ongoing efforts to educate readers on state agencies, their IT plans and initiatives, here’s the latest in our periodic series of interviews with departmental IT leaders.
  • As part of Industry Insider — California’s ongoing efforts to educate readers on state agencies, their IT plans and initiatives, here’s the latest in our periodic series of interviews with departmental IT leaders.
  • The California Department of Technology describes ITLA as “a training ground for public-sector technology professionals looking to move up in management and the executive ranks.”
  • As part of Industry Insider — California’s ongoing efforts to educate readers on state agencies, their IT plans and initiatives, here’s the latest in our periodic series of interviews with departmental IT leaders.
  • The California Department of Technology and one of its frequent state collaborators are convening conversations on broadband deployment, digital equity planning and related activities later this month.
  • The cyber criminal group that is reportedly behind the attack has made public 500GB of files containing Social Security numbers, student psychological assessments and other information.
  • The state of California has been recognized for its technology work by the biennial 2022 Digital States Survey from the Center for Digital Government.
  • The "Best of California" awards, announced during last week’s California Digital Government Summit, acknowledged high-achieving state IT officials and significant recent IT projects.