The state of Georgia has set aside $50 million to construct an innovation and training facility that helps state and local agencies better respond to cyber threats.
“The Peach State” has more than 30 systems across 16 state agencies that house highly-sensitive financial or public safety information, according to Calvin Rhodes, Georgia’s CIO. The state has focused its resources on protecting these high-impact systems from data loss, he said.
“If something’s in trouble, then we get rolled in to go put out the fire,” Rhodes told the attendees of XChange SLED 2017, hosted by CRN parent The Channel Company.
