Center for Cybersecurity
The SCRA Center for Cybersecurity leads South Carolina’s strategic cyber ecosystem development—a plan born from a comprehensive, multi-year study assessing the state’s cybersecurity needs, assets, and challenges. Its mission: strengthen conditions across the state for a more secure, resilient, and economically competitive future.
About the Center
The SCRA Center for Cybersecurity was established to lead the implementation of the South Carolina Cyber Ecosystem Strategic Plan. This plan, developed in 2024, was designed to address the findings of a comprehensive study that assessed the competitiveness of South Carolina’s cybersecurity ecosystem—detailing its assets, needs, and challenges. Its purpose is to align ecosystem efforts to ensure resources and initiatives are optimized; augment state and regional capacity to create a secure and vibrant cyberspace for residents, business, and the public sector; and attract investors, executives, and professionals to catalyze economic growth and develop a world-class workforce.
Note that the South Carolina Cyber Ecosystem Strategic Plan—and by extension, SCRA—does not play a direct role in establishing cybersecurity requirements, providing technical services, or conducting oversight of other agencies’ programs. Such activities are led by organizations including the SC Law Enforcement Division, the SC Department of Administration, and the SC Office of the Adjutant General—who collectively produced the South Carolina Comprehensive Cybersecurity Plan. That plan focuses on increasing cyber resilience across the state by maturing cybersecurity practices and incident response, whereas the South Carolina Cyber Ecosystem Strategic Plan is designed to strengthen and sustain the “ingredients” necessary to support those resilience-building efforts.
This page will be updated soon with more information regarding key agencies and stakeholders who are playing a leading role in implementing the South Carolina Cyber Ecosystem Strategic Plan, as well as the status of those efforts.
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Brian Shea
Director, SCRA Center for Cybersecurity
Contractor, Simon Everett, Ltd.
Brian Shea, a twenty-year veteran of federal and state strategic planning initiatives, will lead the Center at SCRA and provide regular updates on the plan’s implementation to the Office of the Governor. In addition to being the primary author of the South Carolina cyber ecosystem study and the resulting strategic plan, Brian has led cyber ecosystem studies and strategies in multiple US states. Prior to his strategic consulting career, Brian served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force for twelve years as a Cryptologic Language Intelligence Analyst and Instructor.
