2010 New York Code
EXC - Executive
Article 26 - (709 - 717) DIVISION OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY SERVICES
715 - Office of cyber security.

§ 715. Office of cyber security. 1. The office of cyber security shall
  be   dedicated   to   the  protection  of  the  state's  cyber  security
  infrastructure, including, but not limited to,  the  identification  and
  mitigation of vulnerabilities, deterring and responding to cyber events,
  and  promoting  cyber  security  awareness  within the state. The office
  shall also be responsible for statewide policies,  standards,  programs,
  and  services  relating  to  cyber  security  and geographic information
  systems,  including  the  statewide   coordination   of   geographically
  referenced  critical  infrastructure  information.  The  director of the
  office shall be the chief cyber security officer of New York state.
    2. The director may request and receive from any department, division,
  board, bureau, commission or other agency of the state or any  political
  subdivision thereof or any public authority such assistance, information
  and  data as will enable the office properly to carry out its functions,
  powers and duties.
    3. The director of the office is authorized to maintain, in electronic
  or paper formats, maps, geographic images, geographic data and metadata.
    4. The director of the office is authorized to  promulgate  any  rules
  and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this section.
    5.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of
  paragraph (a) of subdivision  eight  of  section  seventy-three  of  the
  public officers law, former officers or employees of the office of cyber
  security  employed  by  the not-for-profit corporation that operates the
  multi-state information sharing and analysis center  may  appear  before
  and  render services to any federal, state, local, territorial or tribal
  government relating to cyber security.
    6. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one  hundred  sixty-three
  of  the  state  finance  law,  section  one hundred three of the general
  municipal law, article four-C of the economic development  law,  or  any
  other  provision  of  law relating to the award of public contracts, any
  officer, body, or agency of New York state, public corporation, or other
  public entity subject to such provisions of law shall be  authorized  to
  enter   individually   or   collectively   into   contracts   with   the
  not-for-profit corporation that  operates  the  multi-state  information
  sharing  and  analysis  center  for  the  provision  of services through
  September thirtieth, two thousand thirteen  related  to  cyber  security
  including,  but not limited to, monitoring, detecting, and responding to
  cyber incidents, and such contracts may be  awarded  without  compliance
  with the procedures relating to the procurement of services set forth in
  such provisions of law. Such contracts shall, however, be subject to the
  comptroller's   existing  authority  to  approve  contracts  where  such
  approval is required by section one hundred twelve of the state  finance
  law or otherwise. Such officers, bodies, or agencies may pay the fees or
  other  amounts specified in such contracts in consideration of the cyber
  security services to be rendered pursuant to such contracts.