Virginia announces regional workshops to bridge technology and emergency management communities

StateScoop: Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced on Wednesday a new series of cybersecurity workshops designed to bring together the often-isolated worlds of emergency management and information technology.

An initial series of seven events — one for each of the state's seven homeland security regions — started last week as a way to bring together IT security professionals and emergency managers who have increasingly overlapping interests in the face of growing cyberthreats against the nation's infrastructure — including those against nuclear, petrochemical or manufacturing plants.

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