Welcome to this edition of the Public Sector Pulse. This month's newsletter focuses on resilience. While most of the content covers cyber-resilience, I also want to share a message about professional resilience during times of change.
This is an election year for 39 Governors, which will undoubtedly create some turbulence within SLED. During periods of change, I often reflect on Theodore Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena” speech, which I feel applies to everyone in the SLED IT community.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
To all of us in the Arena! It Can Be Done!
- Nelson Moe, Director of SLED Strategy, Iron Bow Technologies
Trends to Watch
Emerging Trends in Cybersecurity
Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC):
CISA's Post-Quantum Cryptography Initiative brings government and industry partners together to address the security risks posed by quantum computing and help critical infrastructure and government networks during the transition to PQC.
Here are some key NIST standards for PQC which will help in the journey forward.
Simplify, Secure and Scale with Enterprise Security 📈
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and the 2026 theme “Protecting for the Next 250 years” is particularly relevant. Advances in technology, AI, and cybersecurity have both accelerated risk and organizations’ ability to assess and respond to it.
In this blog, read Iron Bow and Cisco’s perspectives on integrated approaches to security infrastructure, the benefits and risks of AI, and why organizations need to be quantum-ready.
Did you know that Iron Bow works across a broad partner ecosystem? We maintain active partnerships with over 500 industry leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), including Cisco, Splunk, Verkada, and many more. No matter your IT challenge, we can connect you to the right technology.
Iron Bow provides a wide array for grant services to specifically meet the needs of your organization, from grant identification and application through post-award administrative support.
The following grant is currently open.
The Bureau of Justice Assistance STOP School Violence Program (STOP) FY 2026 Grant provides funding to prevent and reduce school violence by implementing training, developing school threat assessment teams, introducing technologies like anonymous reporting tools, or applying other school safety strategies that assist in preventing violence.
