The everyday functions of government — and the services that agencies provide constituents — depend on strong cybersecurity protections. One state’s plan for disaster recovery helped it respond effectively to 23 simultaneous ransomware attacks. But the state has more in mind than that.
What is the best protection against cyberattacks? Eliminate bad practices from your agency.
In the year ahead, adversaries certainly will continue to refine their tradecraft, becoming even more sophisticated and brazen in their cyber campaigns.
Here are three ways agencies can prepare for and avoid ransomware attacks disrupting their product and service delivery to constituents.
Agencies could pay a steep price, literally, if they do not secure the growing volume of data at the edge of the network.
Many people have either seen too many headlines about attacks, or they still feel embarrassed about falling for last month’s phishing email.
Ransomware is evolving, but so can your security awareness and preparedness.
Ransomware is a malicious software that is increasingly frightening to federal, state and local agencies – and the citizens they serve – nationwide.
Among other strategies, cyber experts say agencies need to double-down on cyber training, since end-users continue to be the weakest link in cyber defenses.
Does your government agency have an incident response plan? If so, how often do you review it or ideally practice it? Let’s review some of the obvious and some of the less well-known benefits of prioritizing the planning and testing of IR plans.