cybersecurity

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The state employees who ‘live, breathe and bleed cybersecurity’

BY: - October 9, 2023

South Dakota’s frontline defenders in the cybersecurity battle sit in a darkened room in Sioux Falls. The team of 14 is surrounded by monitors to constantly scan for digital threats and daily hacking attempts against state government. It’s pretty close to the stereotype you see in the movies, said Bureau of Information and Telecommunications Commissioner […]

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After Noem turns down federal cyber money, lawmaker suggests using state funds

BY: - July 23, 2023

After legislators learned that Gov. Kristi Noem’s administration didn’t apply for a share of $1 billion in nationwide cybersecurity grants for county and city governments, one legislator suggested funding grants with state money. The revelation about the state’s non-participation in the federal grant program emerged during a legislative summer study committee meeting on county funding […]

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State spends over $100,000 each year bolstering local governments’ cybersecurity

BY: - January 17, 2023

One employee clicked a scam link in an email, causing Brown County — the state’s fourth largest county — to shut down most of its computer network for over a week during the summer of 2021. While 911 services were able to continue operating, offices were stalled for months because the county’s computer network had to […]