The State of Minnesota stores and protects data on some six million residents, and that’s only one cache of sensitive information under the close watch of Minnesota IT Services (MNIT).
“It’s everything from highways and highway traffic control systems, we run the zoo. We run everything in between,” John Israel, chief information security officer at MNIT, explained to WCCO Investigates. “If there’s any large internet outage — you’ve probably experienced that at home, what happens when you lose access to web — imagine that on a large scale basis.” Those worst-case scenarios threaten all kinds of critical infrastructure, from highways to hospitals to communications to finance.
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Source: CBS News