Pell Center releases ‘State of the States’ report on cybersecurity

Patricia Daddona

November 4, 2015 8:15 pm

FRANCESCA Spidalieri, right, senior fellow for cyberleadership at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy at Salve Regina University, speaks at a recent Cybersecurity Summit produced by Providence Business News. At left is Timothy J. Edgar, cybersecurity expert and fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Public Affairs. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

NEWPORT – Eight states in the U.S., including four in the Northeast, are leading the rest in cybersecurity readiness, according to a new report from the Pell Center at Salve Regina University. The efforts of state governments in California, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia and Washington have developed sound approaches to protect…