Collaborative initiatives among state and local governments, aided by industry partners, are giving agencies increasing ammunition to combat cyberthreats, according to a veteran IT expert.
The growing level of cooperation reflects, in part, a shared need to overcome continuing shortages in technology workers — and cybersecurity expertise in particular, says Allan Wong, director for U.S. public sector at Tenable. By joining forces, state and local IT leaders are also able to share technology capabilities and conserve budget resources.
“The increase in automation and solution capabilities that allow agencies to do more with existing resources will become increasingly important,” he says. In addition, the increased collaboration is helping to accelerate “risk-based vulnerability management approaches, that build on predictive prioritization [of threats] from your endpoints to your networks and to your hybrid data centers.”
Wong discusses how the changing threat landscape has fostered these partnerships in this podcast, produced by StateScoop and underwritten by Tenable:
Collaboratively fighting cyberthreats
“Treating cybersecurity defense as a team sport…
