Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a press conference at the State Capitol building on Jan. 5, 2026 in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen / Getty Images)
“Swift coordination between state and local experts matters in these moments," Tim Walz, Minnesota's governor, said after a disruptive cyberattack in Winona County.
New Hampshire's CIO confirmed that the state has a new chief information security officer: Pamela McLeod, who's spent much of her career doing cybersecurity in the education…
A ransomware attack last month forced operators of a water treatment facility in Minot, North Dakota, to revert to manual processes while a back-up server could be…
Mississippi Chief Information Officer Craig Orgeron poses for a photo at the National Association of State CIOs’ midyear conference in Baltimore on April, 23 2018. (Colin Wood / Scoop News Group)
Newly approved legislation in Mississippi would create the state's first security operations center. Other bills signed by the governor are expected to reduce duplicative services and enable…
Geoff Hale, a former CISA elections security task force director who's leading a new initiative at a nonprofit, said he's aiming to fill gaps left by the…
Geoff Hale, a visiting fellow for election security at the Center for Democracy and Technology, said cybersecurity looks quite different than it did in 2016, but that…
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein talks to reporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court after he attended oral arguments in the Moore v. Harper case Dec. 7, 2022 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
The Futureproofing Local Operations for Water Systems Act would provide $50 million each year to help under-resourced water systems update their equipment and install modern IT security…
Drinking water and wastewater treatment facilities will be subject to a host of new cybersecurity regulations that state leaders are calling "first-in-nation."
