Whole-of-state cybersecurity requires three components - governance, implementation and validation.

Preventing risks and breaches through cyber hygiene across endpoints is safer than remediation. And if done well, cyber hygiene can become a lightweight part of the way the company operates.

Protecting data from theft and improper use has long been the domain of cybersecurity and IT executives. But today, this is also a very real concern for the C-suite and, in many cases, the board of directors, all of whom are well aware of the repercussions of a data breach and failing to comply with regulations.

Cybersecurity and reliability risks cannot be managed by working in silos. The key to solving complex IT operations problems collaboratively is to build a common engineering approach.