Montana CISO Andy Hanks Shares State Security Actions and Priorities

How does a leading state chief information security officer navigate the cyberattacks targeting his state during the pandemic and beyond? Montana CISO Andy Hanks shows us the way in this interview.

In Montana, the Legislature allocated $2 million to retain and recruit skilled and diverse cybersecurity staff by increasing salaries and training budgets, and implementing flexible work. This has enabled us to retain existing staff and helped us recruit additional staff on the national job market. We still have five more positions to fill and are hopeful we will receive approval to increase salaries to competitively recruit cybersecurity talent on the national job market.