Virginia to consider joining states creating volunteer cyber civilian corps

By: Nathaniel Cline

Outlets: Virginia Mercury

Published: January 26, 2026

Words: 609

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 3 days ago

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A proposal to create a volunteer cybersecurity incident response team, investigating and troubleshooting threats targeting digital systems around the commonwealth, will be considered again in this year’s General Assembly session.

The legislation, carried by Del. Michael Feggans, D-Virginia Beach, would authorize the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to select people to serve as Virginia Cyber Civilian Corps volunteers and corps advisors, and to deploy such volunteers across the commonwealth to provide rapid-response assistance under …

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