Nevada is streamlining its state email servers, for all its state employees, to a single provider contract.
Government Technology | Nevada CIO: State’s Major IT Initiatives Are Moving Forward
Category Archives: contracting/procurement
Business Trend by the Numbers. Information Security Procurement.
Gartner Inc. estimates that cybersecurity spending will increase in 2017:
- By 7%
- Accounting for a world-wide spending of $86.4 billion in 2017 and $90 Billion in 2018
Spending will be focused on:
- cyber security services
- IT outsourcing
- consulting
- implementation services
By 2020, bundled cybersecurity contracts will account for 40% of all managed security service contracts and will include:
- cybersecurity
- IT deisgn build outsourcing
Lege Trend: Train Every State Employee on Cyber Security. Read the Bill. Procurement Niche.
Illinois HB 2371 requires every state employee to complete annual cybersecurity training. The Department of Information resources may offer a video in lieu of training.
By every employee, the Legislature managed to exclude these employees:
- legislative
- judicial
- higher education
- every constitutional officer
Government Technology | In Illinois, Cybersecurity Training for State Employees Now Required by Law
4 Questions Schools are Asking Education Vendors
- What data are they capturing?
- Why are they capturing it?
- Where are they housing it?
- How do they recommend that schools house the data?
As schools place a greater concern on ensuring parents that student data is protected, schools are asking their edcation vendors more about data security.
Ed Tech | 3 Tips to Keep Parents Assured that Student Data Is Protected
Business TREND. Employee Cyber Literacy.
Companies are finding cybersecuity weaknesses in employees by sending faux phishing emails and seeing which employees bite.
Corporate test data shows cyber literacy training reduces the number of employees who fall for phishing scams.
How many years until there are cyber literacy requirements in public education? in state contracts?
SC Media | Diagnosing employee phishing weaknesses key to improving email security
Consumer Tech Assoc. Recommends Consistent Education Policy for Student Data Security. Bonjour Education Contractors
The Consumer Tech Association filing with the Commerce Department recommends government action on cybersecurity/datasecurity policies for education because there are so many differnt players in education.
The recommendations that we may soon see in Education Procurement Contracts:
- market driven solutions e.g. contractors should step up and talk about their student data security protocols
- instead of government checklists, we need nimble polcies that can adapt as tech changes
- public-private…
Tech Lobby Spending Up. Way Up. 10 Top Issues Tech wants covered by government affairs teams. Its not all data centers.
2017 Q2 reflects record spedning by tech giants.
The 10 top issues tech wants elected officials and policymakers to know:
- cloud computing
- data centers
- renewable energy taxes
- data protection
- data encryption
- cross-border data flows
- critical infrastructure protection
- transaction security
- government procurement
- IT modernization
Data Center Dynamics | Tech, data center firms increase US lobbying spend
Procurement Trend. State Has Data Breach. New Vendor Opportunity.
Arkansas Workforce Services experienced a data breach that exposed the personally identifable details of 600,000 residents and 19,000 employment applications.
The state is seeking new database services.
U.S. News and World Report | Data Breach Has Arkansas Seeking New Vendor
Local Trend. 5 Elements of a School District's Data Security Policy. + Procurement
Why are Frederick County Public Schools (Maryland) adopting new data security rules? The School experiences a data breach.
5 Elements from the new data breach policy:
- Requires frequent and thorough teacher and staff training for treatment of sensitive information
- incident response planning
- acceptable use of technology
- information technology security awareness
- sets guidelines to mitigate and communicate risks for FCPS student and staff information systems
Also requires a 3rd party…
CONTRACTING TREND. Adding Cybersecurity Standards to Procurement Process. Read the New Rules. See the New Rules Be Adopted by Other Agencies.
Department of Defense is adding cybersecurity standards to its procurement process.
Requirements in the new contracting rules that take effect this fall are:
- Maintain adequate cybersecurity
- Notify the requisite agency of cyber incidents
- Applies to any subcontractors
FedScoop | Pentagon will soon hold contractors to elevated cyber standards