Municipals

This past April was a bad month for cybersecurity in local governments. There were multiple reported attacks that led to shutdowns of services, including critical public safety functions. [...]

For municipal agencies, cloud may be the best technology to come along. That’s because cloud isn’t really a technology; it’s a way of accessing technology. Cloud gives [...]

Several recent events emphasize how important it is for municipalities to protect their computer systems against attacks. In Atlanta, nearly all city services were impacted by a ransomware [...]

Carrying guns doesn’t protect law enforcement information systems from cyberattacks. Law enforcement needs to controlling access to databases and make sure data isn’t tampered with in [...]

Technology plays a big part of compliance within the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS), and requirements for compliance extend to all systems and networks which can access LEADS and [...]

The importance of cybersecurity for state and municipal governments has been underscored this year by news reports of Russian hacking attacks on state voter databases. But politics isn’t [...]

The US federal government spends billions of dollars on cybersecurity, but the Government Accountability Office (GAO) still finds significant shortcomings in their security measures. For state [...]

Local governments face many challenges in using information technology effectively. Their expertise and focus isn’t technology, and their budgets are tightly constrained by residents’ [...]

Every municipal IT department has security high on its list of priorities. Breaches at the Internal Revenue Service, Office of Personnel Management, and even the National Security Agency are [...]