http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2015/10/making-case-cyber-defense-spending-local-government/122901/
By Bill Lucia
Route Fifty
October 18, 2015
The way David Stevens describes it, local government leaders in Maricopa
County, Arizona, didn’t always have an especially favorable view of
cybersecurity spending.
A “grand black hole of a money pit.” That’s how it was seen about four
years ago, said Stevens, who is the county’s chief information officer.
“You had no idea what they were doing. They always wanted money to buy
tools,” he added, referring to cybersecurity staff members. “We just
thought of them as, sort of, the wizard behind the curtain, that got in
the way of business.”
Complex explanations about cybersecurity programs provoked glazed over
looks from decisionmakers, and Stevens also noted that there was a general
impression that some among Maricopa’s cybersecurity team had an
inclination to say “no” to technology changes that might create any new
cyber-risks, an approach that didn’t always mesh well with the county’s
goals.
At the same time, the cyber-threats local governments faced were on the
rise, with some of them posing potentially serious consequences and costs.
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