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Cybersecurity is around-the-clock work, but panelists at the Southern Florida Digital Government Summit offered several ideas for keeping operations secure. Generative artificial intelligence, one official said, is moving humans away from operations. -
A growing system in the Caribbean could develop into Tropical Storm Rafael and intensify into a hurricane as it heads north toward the Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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At the first-ever South Florida Digital Government Summit this week, county leaders discussed how they're making use of artificial intelligence. Other initiatives include giving public-sector staffers access to Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud.
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In a region renowned for its sandy coastline, where billions of tourism dollars are pumped into the local economy by beachgoers each year, the storms’ aftermaths have spawned an employment nightmare.
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Data team members at precip.ai recently compared the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Model of the hurricane to information on the actual storm. Staffers discovered it had provided a realistic depiction of the event.
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The New York Army National Guard will deploy 41 soldiers from the 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team in Syracuse along with 10 Humvees to provide general-purpose support for recovery efforts in Florida.
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Bad actors often take advantage of natural disasters, and especially hurricanes, in times of crisis. Hurricanes Helene and Milton pose significant new online threats, including misinformation and fraud.
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Hurricane Milton’s sustained winds of more than 100 mph shredded Tropicana Field’s roof, uprooted grown trees, snapped power lines and toppled a massive crane into the headquarters of the Tampa Bay Times.
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The Florida Division of Emergency Management’s app provides GIS-powered evacuation zone details via an interactive map, letting residents and visitors pinpoint locations and evaluate their hurricane risk.
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Hurricane Milton remained an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane Wednesday as it sped toward Florida’s Gulf Coast with roof-ripping winds and potentially lethal walls of water as high as 15 feet.
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After spending days in North Carolina working on search and rescue missions after Hurricane Helene, five Colorado Springs firefighters are heading to Florida in anticipation of Hurricane Milton.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis gave an update Monday on Hurricane Milton, which has already grown into a major Category 4 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico and is forecast to make landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
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The National Hurricane Center is tracking Tropical Storm Isaac, Tropical Depression Joyce and Tropical Depression Twelve in the Atlantic while also monitoring two more systems.
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With 140 mph winds and stronger gusts, the landfall of Hurricane Helene this week marked the most powerful hurricane to hit the region among storms tracked since the 1850s.
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The arrival this week of Blue Origin’s new rocket landing support ship marks a busy time for Port Canaveral as a mix of government and private maritime ship traffic begins to pick up steam.
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The aim? To help craft technology that can power smart cities. The call for candidates comes as more accelerators and incubators provide guidance and other vital assistance to government technology companies.
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The 22-year veteran of state service spent more than a decade as CIO at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. He is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and was previously deputy state CISO for nearly two years.
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Many class-action lawsuits have been filed against a Florida-based data firm following disclosures that a breach might have compromised personal information, including Social Security numbers.
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Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., CIO Derrick Arias offers his account of triaging the July CrowdStrike/Microsoft event and what his team will take from the experience to apply when — not if — they experience another outage.
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In an email Wednesday, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said it will revise the Florida Smart ID application, and asked users to delete it. The app has since been deactivated.
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This new cyber attack has disrupted the state’s ability to issue death and birth certificates, and the breach might be putting sensitive patient data at risk.
