Managing Editor

Colin Wood

Colin Wood is the managing editor of StateScoop and EdScoop. He’s reported on government information technology policy for the past decade, on topics including cybersecurity, IT management and governance, health care, public safety and criminal justice reform. He lives in the Sacramento area with his family.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz listens during a hearing with the House Oversight and Accountability Committee at the U.S. Capitol on June 12, 2025 in Washington, DC.(Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

Minnesota governor activates National Guard amid St. Paul cyberattack

Uncategorized

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The SAVE database was already a headache for states. Now it’s fueling Trump’s voter fraud allegations.

Election Security

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Trump’s ‘preparedness’ executive order would shift cyber defense burden where it doesn’t belong, experts say

Policy

CISA, DHS, Department of Homeland Security, RSA 2019 — The DHS and CISA booth at the 2019 RSA conference in San Francisco. (Scoop News Group photo)

CISA completed its election security review. It won’t make the results public

Government

A screen displays an announcement about possible travel delays due to a global IT outage at Gatwick Airport on July 19, 2024, in Crawley, United Kingdom. Businesses, travel companies and Microsoft users across the globe were among those affected by the tech outage. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

Cyberattacks may follow CrowdStrike outage, warns MS-ISAC

Cybersecurity

ANN ARBOR, MI – JULY 30: The University Of Michigan North Campus signage at the University Of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan on July 30, 2019. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

U. Michigan restores campus internet after cyberattack disrupts first week of classes

Cybersecurity

Emergency medical dispatchers coordinate ambulances on April 23, 2020 in Malden, Massachusetts. (Photo by David Degner/Getty Images).

Many public safety agencies remain unequipped to defend against cyberattacks

Technology