The white paper Unified, Resilient, Prepared: New York’s Whole-of-State Cyber Strategy explains how under-resourced local governments face rising cyberattacks disrupting schools, services, and putting citizens at risk. To address this, New York adopted a whole-of-state approach, launching its first statewide cybersecurity strategy in 2023 with CrowdStrike and AWS. The strategy consolidates resources, standardizes protocols, and builds public-private coalitions to protect infrastructure and data. Success relies on stakeholder engagement, sustainable funding, and workforce development, emphasizing NIST NICE standards and competency-based hiring. Civil service reforms further strengthen a diverse, skilled cybersecurity workforce to sustain resilience statewide.

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