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Federal CISO says there’s much feds ‘can learn from the states’

October 21, 2021

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One of the Biden administration’s top cybersecurity officials said Thursday that the federal government can glean many lessons from programs enacted at the state level, especially as the White House expands its attention on protecting computer networks and hardening critical infrastructure.

In brief remarks to the Michigan Cyber Summit, Chris DeRusha, the federal chief information security officer, recounted his own experience as that state’s top cyber official.

“I know from my experience with the state that there is much that we at the federal level can learn from the states,” said DeRusha, who served as Michigan’s chief security officer from 2018 to 2020.

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