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Sep 18, 2015

DIS Leadership Provides K-12 Broadband Update at Guy Fenter Education Service Cooperative Meeting

BRANCH, Ark. - Mark Myers, DIS director, and Don McDaniel, DIS enterprise network services director, provided local school district superintendents an update on the improved Arkansas Public School Computer Network (APSCN) project at a meeting at the …

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Jul 24, 2015

DIS General Counsel Elected to American Inns of Court Board

Department of Information Systems General Counsel Anthony Black was elected Eighth Circuit trustee on the 2015 board of trustees for the American Inns of Court, a professional association of lawyers, judges and other legal professionals. Courts in t…

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Jul 7, 2015

DIS General Counsel Attends Harvard Training Program

Department of Information Systems (DIS) General Counsel Anthony Black spent a week in June at Harvard Law School as a participant in its Harvard Negotiation Institute (HNI). The program consisted of lectures, facilitated discussions, skills-based exe…

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Jun 1, 2015

DIS Deputy Director Announces Retirement

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Herschel Cleveland, deputy director of the Arkansas Department of Information Systems (DIS), submitted a notice of his retirement and resignation from the agency Friday, May 29. Clevelandâs retirement will be effective Wednesday,…

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May 26, 2015

Don't Take the Bait! Focus on Phishing

A Message from the State Cybersecurity Office More than 200 billion emails are sent and received worldwide each day. That represents a lot of opportunity for phishing scams, in which scammers distribute emails that appear to come from legitimate org…

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May 15, 2015

DIS Director to Deliver Cybersecurity Keynote at Arkansas TechJunction Conference

May, 15, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Janet Wilson, Public Information Coordinator Arkansas Department of Information Systems 501-683-1791 dis.arkansas.gov [email protected] LITTLE ROCK-- Cybersecurity will be the topic of a keynote…

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May 1, 2015

DIS Waiver Granted by FCC Could Secure Millions in Federal Dollars for Arkansas

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 1, 2015 CONTACT: Janet Wilson, Public Information Coordinator, Arkansas Department of Information Systems 501-683-1791 [email protected] DIS Waiver Request Granted by FCC Could Secure Millions in Federal Dollar…

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Apr 24, 2015

Improved Computer Network to Provide K-12 Students with High Speed Broadband

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.- A plan to improve the Arkansas Public School Computer Network (APSCN) to provide the stateâs K-12 students access to high speed broadband was announced Wednesday, April 22, by the Arkansas Department of Information Systems (DIS) a…

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Mar 18, 2015

Memo to IT Leaders 3.13.15

MEMORANDUM From: Mark Myers, Director, Arkansas Department of Information Systems To: Agency CIOs and IT Planners Date: March 13, 2015 During a recent meeting of Governor Hutchinsonâs cabinet, the governor emphasized the importance of abiding by …

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Jan 20, 2015

DIS Welcomes Mark Myers as Agency Director

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (January 20, 2015)ââThe Arkansas Department of Information Systems (DIS) is pleased to announce that Mark Myers has been named by Governor Asa Hutchinson to join DIS as its agency director effective Monday, January 19, 2015. Myers …

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