"We need to make sure our political leadership at the local level understands this, too," commonwealth CIO Curtis Wood said during an RSA Conference panel.

Four Black cybersecurity officials speaking at the RSA Conference discussed the importance of of having diverse workforces in government.

"I don’t want to be sitting in D.C. just having people send me reports," CISA Deputy Director Nitin Natarajan said during RSA's annual conference.