CHICAGO – When Mike Braun took office as governor of Indiana in January, he quickly found he needed to address two critical issues.

First, Indiana state agencies where woefully behind in how they were using and managing technology.

Second, he understood the systems and applications implemented throughout the state were at risk of cyber attack.

“I was surprised how disaggregated and disorganized it was.In our state government, that’s about 30,000 employees spread across about 60 or 70 agencies. There was no central technology theme. It seemed like everyone was doing their own thing,” Braun said during the second annual GovRAMP Cyber Summit in October.”The thing I heard most is [the employees] didn’t like it; it wasn’t working and it was almost outdated. We were spending a fortune on it, not to mention the cybersecurity side of it. I guess the only blessing would have been, as it wasn’t that great, had it been taken down, it would have been then the real motivation to maybe fix it.”

Mike Braun is the governor of Indiana.
Braun said he has slowly been improving the processes to buy and apply technology to state services. But when it came to cybersecurity, he moved fast.

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