New Jersey Homeland Security Director Jared Maples, Virginia Assistant Public Safety Secretary Shawn Talmadge and Pennsylvania CISO Erik Avakian speak at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Summit in National Harbor, Maryland. (StateScoop) For state governments, cybersecurity is getting more complex State chief information security officers and homeland security advisers who spoke at a federal cybersecurity conference said their missions are widening. Sep 20, 2019 By Benjamin Freed