first published week of: 10/10/2016
Dewand Neely has been Indiana’s CIO since 2015, when he was appointed by Gov. Mike Pence. Since then, Neely has spearheaded the state's use of data analytics, something he spoke to GCN about at this year’s National Governors Association's “Meet the Threat” conference. He also spoke about a new cybersecurity training program for state employees that aims to eliminate some of the inadvertent security risks from insiders.
What are some projects that you’re excited about?
Our data analytics practice is getting quite a bit of notoriety from other states that want to know how they can take advantage of what we’ve done, how they can do it and how we can help them. We’ve got a lot of great work going on with analytics, especially using data to help address the opioid crisis that going on across the country. We’re also using data to analyze traffic fatalities. continued…