Resource Center For State Cybersecurity

The significant and continued growth of cyber-attacks against the United States makes cybersecurity a critical issue for all Governors. To help states address the consequences of the rapidly evolving and expanding technological threats now faced by law enforcement agencies, public works and energy agencies, private financial and communications sectors and the general public, NGA launched a Resource Center for State Cybersecurity to provide Governors with resources, tools and recommendations to help craft and implement effective state cybersecurity policies and practices. To inform the work of the Resource Center, NGA is working with leading experts, practitioners, representatives from key state and federal agencies and representatives from private industry to develop resources and tools and to provide strategic recommendations on state cybersecurity issues.

Focus Areas

  • Governance
  • Response Planning
  • Critical Infrastructure
  • Workforce Development & Education
  • State & Local Partnerships
  • Emerging Technology

Meet the team

  • Jessica Davenport, Program Director
  • Phil Nichols, Senior Policy Analyst
  • Michelle Blakeslee, Policy Analyst
  • Aisley Wallace Harper, Policy Coordinator

NGA Cybersecurity Library

States Pledge to Meet the Cyber Threat

States Pledge to Meet the Cyber Threat
PROVIDENCE, RI—Today National Governors Association (NGA) Chair Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe kicked off the 2017 NGA Summer Meeting with a discussion on how states continue to develop strategies to thwart ...

Gov. McAuliffe: States Need Core Cyber Protections to Fight Threats

Gov. McAuliffe: States Need Core Cyber Protections to Fight Threats
The National Governors Association (NGA) Chair Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe hosted the final summit for his chair’s initiative, Meet the Threat: States Confront the Cyber Challenge, in Leesburg, Virginia, earlier ...

Cybersecurity: The Next Frontier of State Legislation

National Governors Association (NGA) homeland security and public safety policy analyst David Forscey co-authored a piece on state cybersecurity for Law360. In the article, Forscey, Steven Cash and Benjamin Nissim ...

State Cyber Resiliency Act

The Honorable Mark Warner U.S. Senate 703 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Cory Gardner U.S. Senate 354 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable ...

Crowdsourcing Cybersecurity 101: Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure

Right now, cyber criminals and foreign nations are probing state systems for vulnerabilities. Malicious actors exploit errors in software code and other design flaws—some widely known, some unknown—to steal data ...

Q&A: Phishing

What is Phishing? Phishing refers to the criminal practice of using fraudulent emails to trick unsuspecting victims intodisclosing sensitive information or downloading malicious software (malware). Phishing messages are usually designed ...

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