State Cybersecurity Leader of the Year

Jay White, Mississippi’s chief information security officer, manages the state’s cybersecurity program providing enterprise perimeter defense, cyber awareness, and policy development for governmental entities. White is directly responsible for implementing a robust centralized VPN solution and procuring a secure web gateway solution to improve the state’s defensive posture. As part of the awareness program, White established a new web-based cyber training solution providing courses to more than 100 government entities with subscriptions of more than 40,000 participants at no cost to the agencies.