Mark Zaccaria argues, for Rhody Reporter, that local officials should start getting used to having a line item for cyber-security as more and more of their activities move online.

Of course, it would be nice if the costs of new technology could be offset (and then some) by the savings in labor and productivity that high-tech usually brings, but that would begin to rub up against Ocean State special interests, and taxpayers can only ask for so much.