{"id":899,"date":"2009-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/13\/california-plans-to-launch-information-security-operations-center\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:38:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:38:21","slug":"california-plans-to-launch-information-security-operations-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/13\/california-plans-to-launch-information-security-operations-center\/","title":{"rendered":"California Plans to Launch Information Security Operations Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California intends to create a state-of-the-art information security operations center to monitor cyber-threats and protect state and local government networks from attack.  The proposal is part of a sweeping five-year plan, released Thursday, Nov. 12 by state Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Mark Weatherford, which is designed to safeguard government data and critical technology resources from increasingly sophisticated cyber-criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In California, we are confronting the challenges in a coordinated and efficient fashion that will increase protections for the citizens and businesses of this state,&#8221; said Weatherford, in a statement announcing the plan.<\/p>\n<p>A California First Weatherford&#8217;s new statewide information security plan is the first ever developed for California state government, and it represents a significant milestone for the CISO, given the sprawling nature of California state government and the size and independence of its state agencies.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Government Technology earlier this year, Weatherford said California state agency CIOs needed an enterprise security strategy to help guide their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.govtech.com\/gt\/733337?topic=117671<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}