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Lawmaker says state needs to beef up cybersecurity

Idaho National Laboratory cybersecurity specialists conduct research on a commercial supervisory control and data acquisition system.
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Idaho National Laboratory cybersecurity specialists conduct research on a commercial supervisory control and data acquisition system.

A Georgia senator who chairs a state committee on cyber security says the state needs to leverage every asset it has to boost cyber security.

Members of the Senate committee met with industry experts during an event on the Georgia Tech campus this week.

Senator Jason Anavitarte, R-Dallas, pointed to incidents like the Colonial gas pipeline attack last year that slowed the flow of fuel on the East Coast and the ransomware attack on the city of Atlanta that gummed up operations for months in 2018.

A part of the discussion focused on the need to train workers for the cyber security industry in Georgia.

The committee plans to meet again in October.

Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.
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