{"id":2260,"date":"2021-08-06T00:02:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T00:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2021-08-06T00:02:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T00:02:23","slug":"federal-infrastructure-bill-funds-state-local-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/federal-infrastructure-bill-funds-state-local-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Infrastructure Bill Funds State &#038; Local Cybersecurity."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? The federal infrastructure bill has $1billion for state and local cybersecurity. It can be appropriated like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>80% of funds must be sent to local entities by the state<\/li><li>25% reserved for rural areas<\/li><li>There is also a $250 million grant program for rural and municipal utilities<\/li><li>Both grant programs require a cybersecurity plan be submitted to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for review.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? \u201cState and local governments need more resources to prevent cyberattacks that can devastate their ability to carry out day-to-day functions that citizens rely on, from protecting school data to keeping utilities up and running,\u201d\u00a0&#8211; U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? We have states passing laws prohibiting ransoms from being paid when local governmental systems have been locked by ransomware. Cybersecurity is an ongoing funding item. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/tech-data\/2021\/08\/infrastructure-bill-includes-1b-state-and-local-cybersecurity\/184266\/\">Route Fifty | Infrastructure Bill Includes $1B for State and Local Cybersecurity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? The federal infrastructure bill has $1billion for state and local cybersecurity. It can be appropriated like this: 80% of funds must be sent to local entities by the state 25% reserved for rural areas There is also a $250 million grant program for rural and municipal utilities Both grant programs require a cybersecurity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}