Arizona opens new cybersecurity operations center

guest · Oct 5, 2021

Arizona opens new cybersecurity operations center
October 5, 2021
https://statescoop.com/arizona-opens-new-cybersecurity-operations-center/

Arizona officials on Monday launched a new cybersecurity command center that will pool federal, state, local and private-sector resources to help manage the state government’s information security operations.

The center will run out of the state’s counterterrorism information center, continuing Arizona’s push to consolidate cybersecurity with a broader homeland-security operation, Gov. Doug Ducey said in a press release.

“Cybersecurity is homeland security,” Ducey said. “This new command center will be critical in protecting Arizonans and ensuring our cyber infrastructure remains safe and secure.”
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Ducey earlier this year placed the state’s chief information security officer, Tim Roemer, in charge of the state Department of Homeland Security, a move that made Arizona one of two states — along with New Jersey — to put cybersecurity under the aegis of emergency preparedness or homeland security, rather than as an IT function.
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The new command center, officials said Monday, is meant to increase threat information sharing between state agencies, as well as their federal and local counterparts. Ducey’s announcement also rebranded a service known as the Arizona Cyber Information Program as the Arizona Information Sharing and Analysis Center, or AZ-ISAC.
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Governor Ducey Launches Arizona's New Cyber Command Center

Governor Doug Ducey today launched Arizona’s new Cyber Command Center at a ceremony at the Department of Public Safety’s Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center (ACTIC) in Phoenix.

The Cyber Command Center will be Arizona's headquarters for coordinating statewide cybersecurity operations.
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In September alone, the Arizona Department of Homeland Security detected and alerted on approximately 68 million threats and protected state websites from over 800,000 attacks.
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