More state governments need to start assembling plans for how they would deal with a widespread cyberattack, according to a new paper from the National Governors Association. Adopting a cyber disruption response plan, the organization found, is increasingly urgent for states at a time when threats like ransomware are thriving and fears of attacks against critical infrastructure like electric grids are growing.
While all states now have incident response plans, documents outlining how they should react to attacks on government IT infrastructure, more need to develop practices for handling events that “pose demonstrable harm” the public, the economy or the United States’ national security, the NGA paper says.
