{"id":238459,"date":"2026-05-03T05:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/a-tale-of-two-states-the-2026-cybersecurity-paradox\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T05:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:30:09","slug":"a-tale-of-two-states-the-2026-cybersecurity-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/a-tale-of-two-states-the-2026-cybersecurity-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two States: The 2026 Cybersecurity Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/blogs\/lohrmann-on-cybersecurity\/a-tale-of-two-states-the-2026-cybersecurity-paradox\">A Tale of Two States: The 2026 Cybersecurity Paradox<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/blogs\/lohrmann-on-cybersecurity\/a-tale-of-two-states-the-2026-cybersecurity-paradox\">https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/blogs\/lohrmann-on-cybersecurity\/a-tale-of-two-states-the-2026-cybersecurity-paradox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-03 05:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.govtech.com\">www.govtech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                    \u201cIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This famous quote, from the opening of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and written in 1859, could well describe the state of government technology and cybersecurity in mid-2026. As I attended sessions and networked with state CIOs and CISOs over the past week, I saw that there is a wide gap in the level of hope between different state leaders.<\/p>\n<p>From the opening Corporate Member Exchange Meeting to the State Meet and Greets session to coverage of the NASCIO-Deloitte Cybersecurity Study, everyone was talking about how state CISOs (and CIOs) are losing confidence in their ability to stop and recover from cyber attacks against their governments.<\/p>\n<p><span data-bsp-pv=\"4f8e492c-6f2f-390e-bc61-f176d3a37ab9\"\/><span data-bsp-pv=\"0000019d-e366-d573-a7fd-fbfed4770000\"\/><br \/>Here are some of my notes from meetings and conversations with CIOs and CISOs:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"rte2-style-ul\" id=\"rte-fc1e0ac2-4555-11f1-843a-892139f20cd5\">\n<li>Their governor\u2019s support is high. But how do we measure cyber success? Lowered incident response from six days to 10 minutes. Fear of \u201cdouble-bubble\u201d \u2014 how can we eliminate the old tools? We don\u2019t want to pay for tools twice.<\/li>\n<li>Some states, like Texas, have a well-funded new Cyber Command organization.<\/li>\n<li>Other states are seeing major budget cuts across the board. Not backfilling when people leave. Tightening belts. Must show cost savings. Hard savings needed.<\/li>\n<li>Leaders are hoping SLCGP Cyber Grants are renewed. Also discussions on next steps for the MS-ISAC, which I will cover in a late June blog.<\/li>\n<li>One state dealt with three ransomware attacks with locals in the past few months.<\/li>\n<li>All states are working on AI projects. Most are using an outcome-focused approach, looking for real downstream impact and asking how their AI projects work with improving or replacing existing systems. AI governance is top of mind for CIOs and CISOs.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of discussions about the recent developments with Anthropic\u2019s Project Glasswing and Claude Mythos, along with other new AI&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/blogs\/lohrmann-on-cybersecurity\/a-tale-of-two-states-the-2026-cybersecurity-paradox\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tale of Two States: The 2026 Cybersecurity Paradox https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/blogs\/lohrmann-on-cybersecurity\/a-tale-of-two-states-the-2026-cybersecurity-paradox Publish Date: 2026-05-03 05:08:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/37c02be\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5620x2732+0+1014\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Ff9%2F87%2Fabb1d87e4d94a80a63a14ea7fe2b%2F2604-nascio-philadelphia-051.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-238459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238459"}],"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=238459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238461,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238459\/revisions\/238461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}