From thestate.com
CHARLESTON, S.C.
Six years after hackers stole millions of South Carolina tax records, the state has ended a program to monitor victims’ credit records, and is still working to improve cybersecurity.
The state adopted industry standards about centralizing security rules for the state’s 100-plus agencies, but state authorities are just now coming up with a system to check whether those agencies meet the standards, The Post and Courier reported .
Such a lag isn’t surprising, one cybersecurity analyst said.
“This is typical for state and local governments because they don’t have the resources,” said Avivah Litan, a senior analyst with Connecticut-based Gartner Research. “They shouldn’t be doing this anyway. We need a federal cybersecurity strategy.”