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Why Do Chief Security Officers Leave Jobs So Often? In both public and private organizations, chief information security officers have shorter tenures than CIOs. Why do cybersecurity heads so quickly leave jobs — or get forced out? Is it time to look elsewhere? Everyone knows that cybersecurity is a red-hot career field, and chief security officers (or chief information security officers in many organizations) are the ones leading the online security defense. So how can we explain the current situation where about 24 percent of Fortune 500 CISOs last just one year, according to Cybercrime M...

Exclusive: Camino Lands $3M as Digital Permitting Rises Digital permitting software is one of those niches that became very relevant as social distancing became the norm in 2020. Camino, a startup in that space, saw massive growth and used it to raise an investment round. Shutterstock/TuiPhotoEngineer Camino, a startup that makes permitting and licensing software for government, had a big year in 2020 as governments scrambled to move paper-based, in-person work online. The company has parlayed that growth into a $3 million funding round from investors, led by previous investor St...

On February 8, 2021, the City of Oldsmar, Florida gave a press conference to disclose “an unlawful intrusion to the city’s water treatment system.”

What’s New in Civic Tech: Sweeping COVID-19 Data Platform Plus, Philadelphia announces new pilot projects that will be supported by the city’s innovation fund, the Harvard Kennedy School releases a new step-by-step RFP guide for local governments and more! Shutterstock Civic technologists have a new sweeping COVID-19 data platform, which can be found at global.health. To be more specific, the project is an open-access epidemiological platform that can be used to track and predict the spread of infectious diseases, a group that, of course, includes COVID-19. Currently, the pla...

SC State Partners With IBM's Quantum Computing Program South Carolina State University was the latest university to join a partnership with IBM that aims to bolster quantum computing research at HBCUs. The university says this will ultimately produce more qualified graduates in an emerging IT field. Shutterstock As higher education institutions look to prepare graduates for an increasingly digitized workforce, IBM has put its focus on bolstering tech education and research at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) — with special attention to quantum computing. Sou...