4.1 million current and former federal employees had their information exposed in a federal government data hack. California’s Department of Technology regulates data security.
The California Department of Technology reports 204 data breaches in 2014 among state agencies.
State cybersecurity jobs are notoriously tough to fill. The private sector pays better and state hiring moves at a glacial pace. As a result, data security is often outsourced which opens the data up to another layer of potential data breaches.