October 2018 Group Watch: New State Center to Monitor Cyber Attacks
Governor Kay Ivey recently announced the opening of the Security Operations Center (SOC), an operation designed to protect state technology systems from cyberattacks. The SOC, part of the state’s Office of Information Technology, works as a centralized agency to assess all threats coming into the state. Individual agencies have their own teams, but the state’s Chief Information Security Officer said the center will help improve overall security. The center has four employees monitoring state systems and any attacks on them.
