California’s Statewide Office of Information Security (OIS) confronted rising threats and expanding attack surfaces across 40 million residents and 5,000 public agencies, while budgets and staffing remained fixed. Rather than building a costly in-house SOC or outsourcing to an MSSP, OIS adopted a SOC-as-a-Service model powered by BlueVoyant software, enabling enterprise-grade defense across critical infrastructure, school boards, municipalities, and first responders. This approach delivered 24/7 monitoring, threat detection, and rapid response at a fraction of traditional costs, expanding protective coverage from the executive branch to the broader public sector without ballooning the budget.

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