The state of Minnesota’s new five-year cybersecurity strategic plan is aimed at improving its ability to combat and neutralize bad actors, and many of its 18 overarching strategies center on including staffers in the drive to enhance cybersecurity as the agency’s first line of defense.
The 2018 Information Security Strategic Plan, developed by Minnesota Information Technology Services (MNIT) and released April 12, is an effort to keep residents safe and state IT running “despite a barrage of sophisticated cyber-attacks each day,” the department said in a news release. Its contents embody goals that in some cases are “resources permitting.”
Minnesota operates what it believes to be the “broadest network” and “largest amount of bandwidth by volume” of any other state, Chief Information Security Officer Aaron Call told Government Technology recently, because it is an Internet service provider to schools,…
