State & Local Government Policy, Business and Technology

In the Face of Shifting, Unrelenting Cyberthreats, Texas Offers Centralized Help to Agencies

Government Technology: Texas is beefing up its cyberdefenses with a new contract with a major telecommunications firm offering centralized help to federated agencies, the state's top technology official said during the second day of the annual Texas Digital Government Summit.

But he and a private industry security expert warned hundreds of attendees that the cybersecurity threat to the public sector is growing and becoming more sophisticated.

In December, AT&T announced that the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) had hired them to provide state agencies with managed security services — security monitoring, device management, incident response and risk and compliance assessments.

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