Legislators who take the time to study cybersecurity issues and ask tough questions of CIOs and CISOs are still the exception rather than the rule. But that may be changing.
In March 2016, just a few weeks after a contentious legislative oversight hearing, Michele Robinson, California’s chief information security officer (CISO), stepped down. The Feb. 24 hearing’s focus was a 2015 audit that questioned the state government’s cybersecurity preparedness.