Maryland has named James Saunders, a former federal technology official, to serve as its new chief information security officer.

The state's new IT chief will draw on experience modernizing infrastructure and developing cybersecurity policy at the Department of Defense and Office of Personnel Management.

Maricopa County, Arizona, CISO Michael Echols says that increasingly sophisticated threats require equally sophisticated defenses.

Former career intelligence executive Richard Russell says past policy decisions to save money and ignored warnings led to "greatest PII data breach in U.S. history."