Dan Walters has been a journalist for nearly 57 years, spending all but a few of those years working for California newspapers. At one point in his career, at age 22, he was the nation’s youngest daily newspaper editor. He subsequently covered the Capitol for the Sacramento Union and the Sacramento Bee and, in 1981, began writing the state’s only daily newspaper column devoted to state political, economic and social events. He's written books and has been a frequent guest on national televis

Carmen Marsh is CEO of Inteligenca Inc., a Roseville-based cyber-risk management company founded in November 2017. Her experience in technology encompasses the public and private sectors, and her specialties have been systems engineering and cybersecurity.

Presidio is a leading North America IT solutions provider focused on Digital Infrastructure, Cloud and Security solutions to create agile, secure infrastructure platforms for its customers. We deliver this technology expertise through a full life cycle model of professional, managed, and support services including strategy, consulting, implementation and design.

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McAfee is the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company. Inspired by the power of working together, McAfee creates business and consumer solutions that make our world a safer place. For businesses, McAfee helps orchestrate holistic cybersecurity environments that work smarter, not harder. For consumers, McAfee helps by securing their digital lifestyle at home and away.

Since 1976, SAS has empowered and inspired customers with the most trusted analytics.From machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and natural language processing (NLP) to forecasting and optimization, our AI and IoT technologies support diverse environments and scale to meet changing business needs.

Benjamin Palacio is an IT Analyst on the ESSG-Enterprise Solutions Team in the Placer County Information Technology Department and is a CSAC-credentialed IT Executive. The views expressed here are his own. He may be reached at bmptech@cebridge.net

Rimini Street, Inc. is a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner. The Company has redefined enterprise software support services with an innovative, award-winning program that enables licensees of IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP and other enterprise software vendors to save up to 90 percent on total maintenance costs. Clients can remain on their current software re

Greg Duecker is director of administration/information technology for the Western Municipal Water District in Riverside. Opinions in this piece are his own, and may not reflect those of WMWD. He has over 30 years' experience in a broad range of areas, including geology/geological sciences, geographic information systems (GIS), environmental studies and remediation, database management, information systems/technology, water quality, water utility systems, project management and implementation, co

StrongKey is focused on securing data in cloud computing, e-commerce, healthcare, finance and other sectors mandating protection of sensitive data. The StrongKey Tellaro is a “crypto swiss-army knife” server that performs cryptographic functions through webservices, while freeing up application developers to focus on business functionality. Ideal for compliance driven data protection, the Tellaro bundles encryption, tokenization, key management, and strong authentication in an affordable, ea

Jagjit Dhaliwal has been the deputy chief information officer in the Los Angeles County Office of the Chief Information Officer since May 2018. He has more than 17 years of IT consulting experience across multiple industry domains, including media and entertainment, telecom, banking, insurance and manufacturing. His main focus is on IT transformation, operations efficiencies, enterprise initiatives, app modernization and adoption of emerging technologies.

The SimpliGov Automation Platform is a cloud-based, SaaS solution, that empowers our local, state and federal organizations to rapidly develop and implement eForm, e-signature, and workflow solutions. We are a “no code” solution that empowers lines of business to own and maintain their own processes.

Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) turns machine data into answers. Organizations use market-leading Splunk solutions with machine learning to solve their toughest IT, Internet of Things and security challenges.

Krystof Litomisky is an engineer and executive interested primarily in intelligent systems, robotics, automation and computer vision. He writes code and worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, focusing on the DARPA ARM robot.

Lucas Ropek is a staff writer for Government Technology. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and writer in Massachusetts and New York.