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NJCIC and law‑enforcement officials urge stronger incident reporting, training and state support in cybersecurity hearing
Summary
State and county cyber and law‑enforcement officials told a Senate committee that incident reporting and threat sharing are essential while urging better training for local police, centralized state communications, and attention to third‑party risk affecting hospitals and small businesses.
State cyber officials, forensic labs, prosecutors and industry representatives told a Senate committee that New Jersey faces a growing and diversified cyberthreat landscape and that improved reporting, training and state support are needed to limit harm.
Michael Garrity, director of the New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell (NJCIC) and the state’s chief information security officer, described a sharp rise in observed attacks and defended the value of incident reporting. “As for cybersecurity incident reporting… the NJCIC has thus far received 493 cybersecurity incident reports,” Garrity said in his opening testimony, and he told senators that timely reports help with response, threat intelligence and preventing cascading failures.
Garrity and other witnesses identified common threat actors — nation‑state groups and transnational ransomware syndicates — and said the threat extends across government,…
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