Maryland Gov. Hogan appoints state and local cybersecurity directors – StateScoop

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday made appointments for 2 new positions growing cybersecurity coverage throughout state and native governments.

The brand new administrators of state and native cybersecurity might be chargeable for constructing out insurance policies to safe IT methods and knowledge throughout their respective purviews. Each roles have been created in a package deal of cybersecurity laws Hogan signed in Might.

Hogan named John A. Bruns, a former chief data safety officer in Howard County, a suburban space between Washington and Baltimore, as director of state cybersecurity. In that place, Bruns will work with statewide businesses to “solidify and safe” state IT. He’ll additionally work with the state chief data safety officer, Chip Stewart, on growing and standardizing data safety coverage throughout the chief department in Annapolis, in keeping with a press launch from Hogan’s workplace.

Bruns was named Howard County’s CISO in early 2020 after a number of years as an IT mission supervisor for the county authorities. He’s additionally been a marketing consultant to the Maryland State Division of Training.

Hogan named Netta Squires, an emergency administration specialist, because the director of native cybersecurity. Squires is tasked with working carefully with the Maryland Division of Emergency Administration on helping county and municipal governments with their cybersecurity incident planning. She’ll even have a key position in overseeing the funds Maryland receives from the U.S. Division of Homeland Safety’s new cyber grant program, Hogan’s workplace mentioned.