Monthly Archives: October 2017

Small Cities. Data Security Costs. By the Numbers.

  • 40% of local government CIOs report experiencing more attacks during the last 12 months
  • 26% of CIOs reporting an attack, incident or breach attempt occurring hourly
  • 18% report a cyberattempt at least daily
  • 78% of municipalities don’t have an adequate password management policy
  • 97% of the municipalities he surveyed don’t have a well-documented disaster recovery plan
  • 46% store their backup files and records onsite rather than offsite or in the cloud
  • 90% of local governments don’t bother…

Lege Trend. Data Security Legislation for Infrastructure. Read the Bill.

A House Companion to the Senate’s, Securing Energy Infrastructure Act of 2017 by Senator Angus King (I-ME) and Senator James E. Risch (R-ID), has been filed by Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02) and Congressman John R. Carter (TX-31). The legislation will:

  • “establishes a two-year pilot program to study covered entities and identify new classes of security vulnerabilities and research and test technology – like analog devices – that could be used to isolate the most critical systems…