What to Know:

• Austin Technology Services is hiring a chief information security officer to lead the citywide information security program.
• The CISO will manage incident response, security architecture, governance, audits and staff, while coordinating closely with enterprise architecture and resiliency teams.
• Brian Gardner, the city's deputy chief information officer, is also the current interim CISO.

What to Know:

• Dallas College has named Michael Anderson as its new chief information security officer.
• Anderson said his focus will include digital and IT transformation, with an emphasis on the convergence of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
• He brings more than 27 years of technology and cybersecurity leadership experience, including prior senior roles in public-sector education and local government.

What to Know:

• DIR plans to issue a solicitation for security operations services supporting its Shared Technology Services program.
• The forthcoming RFO will seek a vendor to manage, modernize and evolve SecOps services across DIR’s data center environments.
• Vendors will be expected to integrate with DIR’s existing Shared Technology Services environment and coordinate with other service component providers.

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