NASCIO Urges States To Bolster Cyber Analytics
States should develop advanced cyber analytics capabilities, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers urged as it released a report Thursday. States also should develop and maintain response systems to keep pace with cyberthreats, NASCIO said. Multi-vector attacks by…
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cybercriminals require states to be able to correlate disparate data sources from different security tools, it said. “Advanced persistent threats will become more and more sophisticated,” said NASCIO Executive Director Doug Robinson. “States must move away from merely waiting for the next attack and respond to a more predictive stance in anticipating attacks so they can put necessary defense in place in advance.” NASCIO released a states’ guide to cyberdisruption response planning earlier this month (see 1604070062).