Managing Editor

Benjamin Freed

Benjamin Freed is the managing editor of StateScoop and EdScoop, covering cybersecurity issues affecting state and local governments across the country. He has written extensively about ransomware, election security, and the federal government’s role in assisting states, localities and higher education institutions with information security.

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PARIS, FRANCE – SEPTEMBER 15: In this photo illustration the logo of Chinese media app for creating and sharing short videos TikTok, also known as Douyin is displayed on the screen of a smartphone in front of a TV screen displaying the TikTok logo on September 15, 2020 in Paris, France. US software and hardware manufacturer Oracle Corporation confirmed Monday (September 14th) that it had made a proposal to take over the US operations of the Chinese video-sharing application TikTok, as the US government had announced earlier. The takeover of the American branch of the Chinese social network by an American company is at the heart of a battle between Washington and Beijing. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)

TikTok wants to promote cybersecurity education

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The trunk of Irene Sileski’s trunk is filled with pizzas. At the ManorCare Health Services in Spring Township Friday afternoon where a group from the Berks Democratic Women dropped off a donation of pizzas from Dominos, drinks, and gift bags for the residents July 10, 2020. As a precaution against the spread of coronavirus / COVID-19 everyone wore masks, and staff members carried everything into the facility.

Want to fix unemployment systems? Try the Domino’s model

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There’s more to legacy tech than age, outgoing L.A. County CIO says

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Ohio’s new CIO sets goals for post-pandemic IT

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Security concept: Golden closed padlock on digital background, 3d render

MS-ISAC members get access to other industries’ cyber intel

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MIAMI GARDENS, FLORIDA – JANUARY 06: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis leaves after holding a press conference about the opening of a COVID-19 vaccination site at the Hard Rock Stadium on January 06, 2021 in Miami Gardens, Florida. The governor announced that the stadium’s parking lot which offers COVID-19 tests will begin to offer COVID-19 vaccinations for residents 65 and older to drive up and get vaccinated. The vaccination site opened today for a trial run but it was not known when it will be open to the general public. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Florida budget adds $37 million in cybersecurity spending

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Money’s great, but it’s not everything, state CISOs say

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IBM names recipients of K-12 cybersecurity grants

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Pandemic was a ‘tipping point’ for government modernization

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