Mississippi Department of Revenue balances cloud modernization with security-first AI adoption
Public sector organizations are increasingly rethinking how they manage critical infrastructure as demands for always-on digital services and greater operational efficiency continue to grow. As government AI adoption accelerates alongside advances in cloud-native platforms, IT teams are modernizing legacy environments while maintaining security and public trust.
Organizations are taking a measured approach to AI, recognizing that the data they manage is not theirs to casually experiment with or potentially expose. The focus is on finding ways to create value from that data while being careful not to introduce unnecessary security risk, according to Mike DeHaan (pictured), chief technology officer of the Mississippi Department of Revenue.
“We’re really highlighting AI for our service delivery tools on our infrastructure side right now,” DeHaan said. “We’re using that to help onboard some of our earlier engineers to bring them to a more advanced kind of way to work with some of the big infrastructure that we have to work with.”
DeHaan spoke with theCUBE’s Christophe Bertrand and Alison Kosik at the Pure Accelerate 2026 event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed strategies for building cloud-ready infrastructure and taking a security-first approach to government AI adoption. (* Disclosure below.)
