Money worries weigh on critical infrastructure amid growing cyber threats, report finds

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State technology leaders are almost universally concerned about cyberattacks on their critical infrastructure, but they lack the budget or resources to combat those attacks, a survey found last week.

Ninety percent of state chief information officers identified cyberattacks against critical infrastructure as a high concern, according to a joint survey by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers and General Dynamics Information Technology, released weeks before the former’s annual conference in San Diego . But only 65% of state CIOs’ budgets include funding to protect critical infrastructure, the study found, with those numbers likely even lower among the local governments and special districts that operate those systems.