With less federal support, states look to lead in cyber

When a group of states created the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) nearly 25 years ago, the goal was to coordinate and strengthen cybersecurity, both for state agencies as well as their local governments.

This was in the aftermath of 9/11, a time when much of the nation was focused on security as the Internet was rapidly becoming more important. So states started to take cybersecurity seriously. Very seriously.

The MS-ISAC was born as an informal network in 2003 within New York state government. By 2005, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had started contributing funds to it, said John Gilligan, the current president and CEO of the Center for Internet Security, the nonprofit group that now houses the MS-ISAC.

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