State Agencies Combat Trillions Of Cyber Attacks In 2 Months
Whether it is attacks on critical infrastructure like the Colonial Pipeline along the East Coast, or governments like the City of Tulsa and Seminole Nation, the state's top cyber security expert says the volume of hacks will likely only increase.
“I think the law of averages is going to tell you that we are going to see more and more of these things,” Oklahoma Chief Information Security Officer Matt Singleton said.
And for the state of Oklahoma, the number of attacks has been off the charts.
“In the first 60 days of 2021, we had 3.8 trillion security events where there were some probes against the state network that needed to be defeated,” Singleton said. That breaks down to 700 attacks per second.