Cybersecurity Is Now a Shared Mission
How Agencies Are Collaborating to Improve Security
Attackers need 72 minutes to compromise a system. Defenders average 277 days to detect and contain a breach. That gap is roughly 1 to 5,500, and it is widening: only 22% of state CISOs say their teams can keep pace, down from 47% two years ago, and 68% of state, local, tribal and territorial governments lack direct funding for major cybersecurity priorities.
This new GovLoop guide documents what agencies are doing about it. Arizona CISO Ryan Murray walks through how the state built whole-of-state cybersecurity from an informal phone tree into AZ-ISAC, now covering roughly 400 state and local entities. Randy Rose of the Center for Internet Security explains how shared intelligence turns one agency’s incident into everyone else’s defense. And RegScale co-founder and CEO Travis Howerton makes the case that shared defense only works if compliance can move at the same speed, which is what continuous ATO and machine-readable evidence are built for.
Download the guide to learn:
- The five steps Arizona used to stand up whole-of-state cyber
- How AZ-ISAC grew into a real-time sharing network of more than 1,000 practitioners across roughly 400 state and local entities
- What the Cyber Readiness Program actually provides at no cost to cities, counties, K-12 and tribal agencies
- What MS-ISAC’s funding change means for the 18,000+ public-sector members who relied on it, and where shared-service models close the gap for smaller jurisdictions
- Why the ATO process is the bottleneck on modernization, and how continuous ATO replaces point-in-time snapshots with evidence that stays current as systems change
Shared defense breaks down when compliance can’t keep up with it. RegScale is a continuous controls monitoring platform built OSCAL-native for RMF, ATO and cATO workflows, and public sector agencies using it report up to 90% faster certifications and 60% less audit preparation effort. See what that looks like against your own control set in a 30-minute walkthrough.
