{"id":230913,"date":"2026-04-03T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/west-virginia-gives-ciso-greater-authority-to-lead-statewide-cyber-program\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:10:11","slug":"west-virginia-gives-ciso-greater-authority-to-lead-statewide-cyber-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/west-virginia-gives-ciso-greater-authority-to-lead-statewide-cyber-program\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia gives CISO greater authority to lead statewide cyber program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/west-virginia-cybersecurity-office-ciso-bill\/\">West Virginia gives CISO greater authority to lead statewide cyber program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/west-virginia-cybersecurity-office-ciso-bill\/\">https:\/\/statescoop.com\/west-virginia-cybersecurity-office-ciso-bill\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-03 18:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"statescoop.com\">statescoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey on Thursday approved legislation designed to strengthen the state\u2019s cybersecurity and grow the authority of its chief information security officer, a role currently held by longtime state IT staffer Leroy Amos.<\/p>\n<p>The bill directs the state\u2019s Cybersecurity Office, led by Amos, within the state\u2019s Office of Technology, to standardize the state\u2019s approach to cybersecurity. Amos is tasked with developing statewide cybersecurity policies and standards comprising a \u201cframework\u201d that ensures uniform compliance with the industry\u2019s best practices. While discussing the bill in Charleston in recent months, state lawmakers claimed that much of West Virginia\u2019s cybersecurity activities are the product of disparate, ad-hoc efforts, not carefully managed by a central authority keeping an eye on compliance across agencies, though the IT office has partially disputed this criticism.<\/p>\n<p>The bill\u2019s enactment drew approval from the Alliance for Digital Innovation, a Washington nonprofit that advocates for laws and policies \u201cthat contribute to the development of a modern, 21st century digital government,\u201d according to its website. In a letter to the governor urging his signature, Dan Wolf, the Alliance\u2019s director of state programs, noted the legislation\u2019s \u201cthoughtful and forward-looking approach to managing cybersecurity risk\u201d and its accommodation for \u201cthe shared and interdependent nature of cyber risk across agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wolf noted that the bill \u201censures that software licensing practices do not restrict the state\u2019s ability to deploy solutions on the infrastructure of its choosing, helping to prevent vendor lock-in and promote flexibility, competition, and cost efficiency,\u201d a nod to one of the bill\u2019s amendments, after concerns arose that new cybersecurity standards, too rigidly administered, might hamper the state\u2019s hardware or software options. \u201cEffective cybersecurity requires centralized&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/west-virginia-cybersecurity-office-ciso-bill\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia gives CISO greater authority to lead statewide cyber program https:\/\/statescoop.com\/west-virginia-cybersecurity-office-ciso-bill\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-03&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1558575963.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-230913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230915,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230913\/revisions\/230915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}