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State cybersecurity office expands enterprise monitoring and security operations; committee holds executive sessions on vulnerabilities
Summary
OITS and the Kansas Information Security Office briefed the panel on expanded enterprise security tools, an emerging 24/7 security operations center and ongoing deployments of endpoint and vulnerability-management tools; because discussion touched on sensitive system details, the committee recessed into executive session.
The Legislative Post Audit Committee received a technical briefing from Office of Information Technology Services (OITS) and the Kansas Information Security Office (KISO) about an expanded statewide cybersecurity service model, the deployment of enterprise monitoring tools and plans to staff a 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC).
Jeff Maxon, OITS chief information officer, described OITSservice model work to document agreements with individual agencies and to clarify which services OITS provides across diverse agency IT environments. He told the committee OITS is working toward completed written service agreements for each agency by the end of the year to remove uncertainty over responsibilities for account management, desktop support, patching and other operational services.
John Godfrey, the state chief information security officer, described KISO operations and ongoing…
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