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Dean Gialamas, a familiar face in Southern California IT circles, has been tapped as the next IT bureau chief and CIO for the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Six months after it took effect, enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act will begin July 1. Here's an update on its landscape, and strategies for companies contemplating compliance.
The recruiting entities are the California Department of Technology, the Department of Child Support Services and the Alcoholic Beverage Control Department.
Barnett has more than 20 years’ experience in the election industry, having worked in both the public and private sectors. He's served as an elections administrator, and before that he was affiliated with several vendors in the election marketplace.
The California state Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday placed four technology bills dealing with broadband access, the novel coronavirus's (COVID-19) impact on LGBTQ residents and other topics in "suspense" pending further consideration of their estimated financial impact.
The California Public Employees' Retirement System, the nation's largest public pension fund, had its election system contract lapse earlier this year. It seeks proposals from qualified firms to provide products and services for future Board of Administration elections.
The Granite Bay Republican says that although the state's Legislative Technology and Innovation Caucus isn't as ambitious as he might like, he sees opportunity to effect change in his role as vice chair of the Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection.
A hacking group that has successfully attacked at least three universities recently has threatened to publish sensitive research information to the dark web if monetary demands are not met.
Roseville resident Joel Grein has 35 years of experience in the technology industry with a background in sales, operations and financial management. In addition, he’s worked in data center management, systems engineering and systems programming.
During an unprecedented year, as they pivot to telework and sharpen pencils for the budget, five technologies — some newer, some not — offer value to governments confronting new challenges.
Murtaza Masood spent the last five years as CIO and then assistant director of the Department of Human Resources in the nation's largest county government. Now he's returned to his roots in the private sector as managing principal with an Orange County consultancy.
Techwire is pleased to welcome Broadcom Inc. to the Techwire family. Broadcom is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Its products offer voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in home, office and mobile environments, and the company has one of the industry's widest-ranging portfolios of next-gen system-on-a-chip solutions. Among its work with state-level governments, Broadcom has modernized print services, increased cybersecurity with proactive network management and secured services with a flexible API solution. For more information, visit broadcom.com.
When the department's new chief information officer takes over on July 1, he'll be overseeing a workforce that's largely working remotely. He'll also perform the collateral duties that outgoing Chief Scott Howland has performed — including leading the state's Computer Crimes Investigations Unit.
"In the case of Covered California, we used two robots to add more than 10,500 vendors. A task that would have taken months took 18 days."
As part of its ongoing quest to more closely connect readers in gov tech and the technology industry, Techwire heard from Bill Glaholt, chief information officer at the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB), on how his agency's IT shop is structured; on his role; and about CHRB's modernization.
MISAC’s conferences typically attract hundreds of participants — numerous chief information officers (CIOs), IT directors and municipal IT leaders from across California, as well as scores of vendors and others in the IT industry.
Rajeev Haswani has been in the industry since 1997, beginning as a senior consultant with CGI-AMS, and then affiliating with GE Insurance Solutions before moving to Franklin Templeton as IT director. He joined SimpliGov this month.
California's Fiscal Year 2020-2021 budget, which the Legislature must approve by June 15, is already bringing bad news to IT, but could spell opportunity in telework and elsewhere, two state department CIOs said during a Techwire Virtual Industry Briefing.
One position in recruitment is for an experienced project manager; the other is for a senior business systems analyst.
The California Department of General Services has awarded a contract for automatic license plate recognition technology to PCS Mobile that could span a decade, likely reflecting state needs to to sustain existing, essential technology.
The 10-bus fleet offers Internet access to Sacramento students who are distance-learning due to school closures amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. It also allows low-income families who can’t afford broadband to get online for free.
Techwire is pleased to welcome Public Consulting Group to the Techwire family. Public Consulting Group assists public-sector health, education, and human services organizations in improving their performance and processes. For more than 30 years, its methods and tools for actionable reporting and measurement have helped clients maximize resources, hold or trim costs, streamline processes and implement and improve on tech solutions. Public Consulting Group’s tech consulting practice helps state and local government deliver successful, cost-effective IT systems. The company has more than 2,000 employees around the world, and typically around 1,000 open contracts. For more information, visit publicconsultinggroup.com.
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Forrester just published The Forrester Wave — Cloud Native Application Protection Solutions, an independent evaluation of 14 vendors in the CNAPP market. Wiz was named the Leader and received the highest score!
Technological innovation in artificial intelligence has shifted. For the better part of a decade, AI operated within tightly bounded constraints: classifying images, generating text, and using these capabilities to surface recommendations. While these systems were powerful, they were fundamentally passive. They needed to receive a prompt in order to return a result. Once the result was achieved, the system stopped.
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