The telework rush tested states' cybersecurity, IT maturity

Abstract

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced state government employees to start working from home earlier this year, no one was fully prepared. Most employees hadn�t been acclimated to the isolation they would soon experience, states didn�t have enough equipment or software licenses to go around and cybersecurity officials didn�t have enough time to ensure operations could continue under the same conservative privacy and data-security standards.