State cyber bosses re-think security during pandemic fallout

Michael Geraghty, CISO and Director, NJ Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell, State of New Jersey discusses new risks brought on by distributed users and distributed services for state and local government agencies.

Among those risks, supply chain management should be top of mind for leaders. Cyber threat actors can attack vendors who provide services and have access to all their downstream customers. Agencies should be practicing due diligence to know how their vendors are securing their systems to make sure they can manage unknown risk, he says.