BISMARCK – State agency leaders huddled Monday to start brainstorming on how to improve security for North Dakota’s statewide computer network, which one official said was attacked about 68 million times in the past two months.
Gov. Jack Dalrymple, who appointed the Cybersecurity Task Force last month, urged its 15 members during their first meeting to share information about their agencies’ vulnerabilities and put together a number of “what-if” scenarios.
“We do need a first-class cyber-incident response strategy,” he said.
Sensors detected and blocked 46 million attacks in August and 22 million attacks in September against the state’s data center, which serves all of state government, the K-12 school system, North Dakota University System and most political subdivisions, said Dan Sipes, deputy chief information officer for the state Information Technology Department. For the full article click here
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