Texas completed its first-round State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program applications in March; a report indicates the next opens in the new year.

According to the request, the agency requires $27 million for IT capital budget items and $8 million for a single IT exceptional item.

Each year, Texas IT Leadership Forum organizers highlight those impacting the way state and municipal governments build and use constituent-facing and back-end technologies.

Industry Insider — Texas will not publish a newsletter Thursday or Friday in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. The newsletter will resume Monday morning.

City IT discovered a malicious script that left some systems offline Thursday and Friday; the city disclosed the incident on its website.

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