Normal, IL, USA / www.cities929.com Jul 19, 2021 | 5:04 PM (The Center Square) – The state of Illinois is constantly under a barrage of attacks from malicious actors looking to steal valuable data and other assets or even grind important systems to a halt, according to state officials charged with keeping them at bay. The Illinois House Cybersecurity, Data Analytics and IT Committee got a state of the state’s electronic assets Thursday from the principals at the Department of Innovation Technology. Adam Ford, chief information security officer at DOIT, said the state’s assets are seeing countless malicious attempts to breach their defenses every day.