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Industry Insider — California is pleased to welcome SafeBreach to the Industry Insider family. SafeBreach’s widely used breach and attack simulation (BAS) platform works to continuously validate your security controls. The platform executes attacks which expose security gaps, and uses contextual insights to highlight remediation efforts. It enables visibility across siloed security solutions to show an organization’s true risk and promote cross-functional mitigation efficiency. Its Hacker’s Playbook™, an exhaustive collection of attack data founded in state-of-the-art threat intelligence research, lets entities be proactive about security with a simple, data-driven approach. For more information, visit safebreach.com.

An educational system’s multiyear plan has potential opportunities this fiscal year for companies with tech goods and services to offer the state.

The cameras, with the potential to scan millions of plates each year, will be installed around Newark as soon as next month, with the aim of deterring crime and solving cases.

The state department spent just more than $5 million in the second quarter of 2022 on IT services that include an emergency mass notification system.

Experts at e.Republic discuss optimizing state and local government digital marketing.

Notable positions in recruitment include chief roles as well as several in the area of application development.

The Cybersecurity Boot Camp is a four-week online program aimed at preparing the government’s security workforce for security roles within California’s public sector.

California’s new state budget supports significant technology initiatives in lower education.

Industry Insider — California is pleased to welcome RNSC Technologies to the Industry Insider family. RNSC is a minority- and veteran-owned cybersecurity business based in Atlanta with a passion for protecting companies and empowering communities as an agent for social impact. The company’s areas of focus include advisory, product resale, implementation, managed security services and personnel augmentation. The firm has three core practices that are supported by practice managers, account executives and engineers: Privacy and Governance Practice, Secure Access Control Practice, and Infrastructure and Cloud Protection Practice. For more information, go to RNSC Technologies or email Renault Ross.

UC Davis is now about halfway through design development for the $171.7 million, 11-acre facility in Folsom and expects to start construction in early 2023. Vendors will be selected from existing standard agreements and vendor lists for the majority of equipment purchased.

“For me, like for many of you, UC Tech is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about each other and to collectively set the stage for the year ahead,” writes Van Williams, chief information officer and vice president for information technology for the University of California.

Industry Insider — California is pleased to welcome Incode Technologies to the Industry Insider family. The identity company is working to reinvent how people verify identities and connect to the largest organizations, via a highly secure, artificial intelligence-based orchestration platform that’s end-to-end and fully automated. The Incode Omni platform enables seamless access through multiple channels. It helps the public sector provide secure citizen digital identities through document authentication, passive liveness and facial recognition, with products centered on onboarding, authentication and payment verification that increase conversion and reduce fraud. San Francisco-based Incode counts several of the world’s biggest banks, fintechs, hotels, governments and marketplaces among its clients. For more information, email Mark Hamilton or visit incode.com.

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.

“Looking for any risk and privacy minded individuals to join our Labor Workforce and Development Agency reporting directly up to members of the Governor’s Office Cabinet. LWDA impacts nearly every Californian and oversees cybersecurity and privacy matters for seven of our most critical departments responsible for workforce,” writes Vitaliy Panych, the state's chief information security officer.

The office’s five largest transactions for IT services in the second quarter totaled $2,750,409, according to the State Contract and Procurement Registration System.

It’s not an exact recounting of when and where the state’s monies will be spent, but the new bill is among several that show how and where California’s transportation spend may intersect with technology and innovation this fiscal year.

A state system’s overall plan reveals possible opportunities this fiscal year for those selling tech goods and services to the state.

Recruitments include unit and section chiefs, principal enterprise architect and solutions development manager.

The agency alleges the electric carmaker misled customers with advertising language on its website describing Autopilot and Full Self-Driving technologies as more capable than they actually are.

Six graduate students from Sacramento and Northern California were selected in a competition judged by senior technology executives from state government.

This is the latest move in the Sacramento-area local government technology executive’s more than 20-year career.