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Whole-of-state defense: How SLED agencies can secure critical infrastructure in the AI era
State, local, education (SLED) organizations operating critical infrastructure face expanding cyber risk as attackers exploit under-resourced targets and artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates reconnaissance and attack automation. A whole-of-state cybersecurity approach treats multiple jurisdictions and utilities as a single defensive perimeter, sharing governance frameworks, asset visibility, and security services to protect water systems, hospitals, emergency services, and schools. Key priorities include comprehensive asset inventory, prioritization by exploitability and impact, cross-jurisdictional visibility sharing, and controlled AI adoption policies.
Why it matters: SLED agency leaders, CISOs, and IT managers responsible for critical infrastructure must adopt coordinated statewide defenses because attackers systematically target the weakest link (rural water utilities, small districts, county services) to gain lateral entry into larger systems, and unvetted AI tools and remote access amplify that risk.
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