The State of Alaska Office of Information Technology (OIT) has signed a State/Territory-Wide Membership agreement with the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) to provide essential cybersecurity resources for the State of Alaska.

The target start date for the State's MS-ISAC membership is October 1^st.

“When MS-ISAC moved to a new paid membership model, our team worked internally with federal partners to understand the changes. Top of our list was making sure that the State of Alaska could still access this critical resource for incident response, threat notifications, web security, and cybersecurity information sharing,” said Dan Monarch, Chief Information Security Officer.

MS-ISAC provides enterprise-grade cybersecurity tools that can be deployed across the state to improve cyber resilience.

“As an added bonus, we learned that our State of Alaska MS-ISAC membership could be used by local and tribal government entities in Alaska as part of MS-ISAC’s “whole of state” approach to strengthening cybersecurity and outreach,” said Monarch.

If you are a government entity in Alaska, and you would like more information about MS-ISAC and the new State of Alaska State/Territory-Wide Membership, you can check out the MS-ISAC® Membership FAQ. MS-ISAC accounts are managed through the Center for Internet Security (CIS), you can find detailed MS-ISAC account information at this link.  

“Our State of Alaska MS-ISAC membership will provide us with the tools to continue working closely with our government partners to keep our data secure and protected,” said Monarch.