Four states join cybersecurity automation pilot

StateScoop: Four state governments and one county are currently participating in a pilot project led by a Johns Hopkins University research lab to automate some of their cybersecurity processes as officials strive to make their information-security defenses more nimble.

The IT agencies in Arizona, Louisiana, Massachusetts and Texas — along with Maricopa County, Arizona — are implementing tools developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory that automatically act on cyberthreat intelligence, such lists of untrustworthy domains or malicious IP addresses, rather than wait for changes to be entered manually.

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