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The California Department of Technology and the Franchise Tax Board are both looking for leadership for critical technology programs.
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Rinki Sethi, who's been with several Fortune 500 companies including Palo Alto Networks, Intuit, Walmart and PG&E, describes herself as "passionate about security."
The nation’s 10th-largest city is expanding its IT capabilities under the direction of Chief Information Officer Rob Lloyd, and in the past year has hired a chief information security officer and an assistant chief information officer. These are among several IT positions the city has filled or plans to fill.
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A new report produced by the state Department of Motor Vehicles comes in response to recommendations from a DMV strike team created by Gov. Gavin Newsom. It offers several ideas on how to improve operations at the troubled agency.
IBM's 2019 Call for Code Global Challenge asks the tech community to help save lives of people in areas vulnerable to natural disaster, like the 2018 winner, Project OWL and its incident management system.
The county and IBM are working together to de-silo the agency's systems and integrate data, enabling more timely and efficient service to residents with urgent needs.
Building chatbots in a government environment is not difficult; it just requires a bit of additional planning. It is, however, essential to take this step and apply proper organization and security within the chatbot to assist in management tasks.
Carmen Marsh, CEO of a Roseville cyber-risk management company, will manage the program and offer free cybersecurity training to all students. “100 Women in 100 Days” will take off in the Sacramento Valley, but Marsh plans to expand the effort nationally.
Earl Pingel is a California native who's been living in Chicago for the past 11 years. The California native said in an email to Techwire that he is "Going back to Cali." He'll be working with CDW-G in its State and Local group.
Currently, telephone companies aren't obligated to report real-time information about service outages, such as where the outage is located, how many people are affected or when they expect repairs to be completed.
'In his laboratory at UC Davis, Mukherjee developed the concepts of anomaly detection and misuse characterization in network intrusion detection. He had the vision to design and demonstrate the first prototype of a "firewall" to protect a data network. Today, firewalls are ubiquitous.'
Two heavyweight state agencies, the Department of General Services and the Financial Information System for California, are seeking to fill significant risk management and database administration positions.
While announcing his revised spending proposal Thursday, Newsom said he still wanted the money to come through for the 2019-20 budget but wasn't sure that it would: "We can't count on anything in life. Life's uncertain."
Gov. Gavin Newsom's highest-profile proposed and enacted IT initiatives are still underway. But only one, RFI2, turned up in the governor's summary to his revised 2019-2020 budget proposal.
The state Legislative Analyst's Office calls Gov. Gavin Newsom's database proposal "troubling" in that it omits the California Department of Technology.
We come across countless stories and columns every week as we search for news related to (or of interest to) those in the California gov tech sector. Here are a few that drew and kept our attention.
A bevy of bills would create additional consumer protections, but key parts of the legislation have shifted or fallen away since originally introduced. They include restrictions on what data voice assistants can store.
An Oakland commission voted recently to support a proposal that would ban the use of facial recognition technology by city departments, following in the footsteps of San Francisco, which is considering a similar ban.
As the April 2018 deadline neared to launch the state's Motor Voter program, California Department of Technology and DMV officials grappled with significant "show stopper" defects and worked to test the new system before making it live. Thousands of errors followed the deployment, timed to register residents ahead of the June primary.
The governor won approval for only half the money and 20 percent of the staff he sought for one of his premier tech initiatives — the Office of Digital Innovation.
Liebert, who has been state government’s cybersecurity chief for almost three years, has left a large footprint in IT security governance.
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