{"id":212826,"date":"2026-02-12T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/nevada-unveils-policy-for-consistent-statewide-data-classification\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:40:08","slug":"nevada-unveils-policy-for-consistent-statewide-data-classification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/nevada-unveils-policy-for-consistent-statewide-data-classification\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada unveils policy for consistent statewide data classification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/nevada-policy-consistent-statewide-data-classification\/\">Nevada unveils policy for consistent statewide data classification<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/nevada-policy-consistent-statewide-data-classification\/\">https:\/\/statescoop.com\/nevada-policy-consistent-statewide-data-classification\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-12 18:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"statescoop.com\">statescoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nevada\u2019s technology department on Wednesday announced a new policy aimed at uniformly classifying its data, a once arcane practice gaining celebrity in an age of AI and cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the new \u201cproactive\u201d policy replaces inconsistent practices used across state agencies to categorize the sensitivity of various data, ranging from innocuous meeting notes to cybersecurity defense plans. Officials hope, a press release said, the standard will \u201celiminate the need for separate, bespoke data-sharing agreements\u201d and encourage more cross-agency work. But the chief motivation is keeping data secure: According to a video published by the Governor\u2019s Technology Office, the absence of proper data classification could risk residents\u2019 personal information being \u201chandled with the same low level of security of, say, a press release.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from the technology department said the new policy was developed over the course of a year, by a group led by the state\u2019s chief data officer, Jason Benshoof. It contains four tiers of data sensitivity and an option for agencies to add subtiers. Information meant to be public, like meeting agendas, is \u201cpublic,\u201d internal communications and draft documents are \u201csensitive,\u201d Social Security numbers and financial information are \u201cconfidential\u201d and things like encryption keys or criminal history records are \u201crestricted.\u201d (According to the press release, the new policy does not affect what are considered public records, and that \u201cclassification tiers are for internal safeguarding and handling.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Nevada incurred a ransomware attack last May after a state employee unknowingly downloaded malware from a spoofed website. Michael Hanna-Butros Meyering, the technology bureau\u2019s communications chief, said that attack wasn\u2019t helpful, \u201cby any means, but it sure clarified the urgency\u201d of the data classification project that Benshoof had begun leading several months earlier&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/nevada-policy-consistent-statewide-data-classification\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nevada unveils policy for consistent statewide data classification https:\/\/statescoop.com\/nevada-policy-consistent-statewide-data-classification\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-12 18:27:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2227581937.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,32,57],"class_list":["post-212826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-malware","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212828,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212826\/revisions\/212828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}