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CTNJ: Connecticut continues focus on cybersecurity

HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut is taking a leading role in actively fighting back against cybersecurity attacks, according to state officials.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said the state receives daily reminders that “we are living in a time of cyber-insecurity.”

At a Capitol press conference Monday, Mark Raymond, chief information officer in the Bureau of Enterprise Systems and Technology, said state government websites receive a total of 4.8 billion visits per month and about 42 percent of that traffic is “not authorized.” That’s about 2 billion visits being blocked because it’s coming from known malicious Internet protocol addresses or threat signatures.

But there’s so much that is unknown.

Read the full story on CT News Junkie.

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