Case Study: Illinois State Treasurer achieves one-hour incident response with Cyberbit's cyber range

Ensuring $52B of Illinois State assets are safe of cyberattacks, by maximizing the impact of their cyber defense team with a state-of-the-art cyber range

The Illinois State Treasurer, responsible for managing $52B in state assets and the ePay program, faced an urgent cybersecurity challenge as attacks on the office rose 800% since 2019. To ensure its IT staff were prepared to defend real-world threats, the Illinois State Treasurer turned to Cyberbit’s cloud-based, on-demand skills development platform and cyber range for hands-on, full-spectrum training.

Using Cyberbit’s live-fire cyber range with reverse-engineered attack scenarios and hyper-realistic virtual networks, the Treasurer’s team improved threat detection and incident handling, cutting incident response time from one week to one hour. Cyberbit’s platform also extended training to ePay participants and local governments, created a learning-based hiring incentive, and helped the office identify and close skills gaps while planning a cybersecurity center of excellence.

Illinois State Treasurer

Joe Daniels

Chief Information Officer