Every municipality should outsource its IT security (and do it now!)

Are you budgeting $20,000 to $40,000 a year each for their professional development? Because if they are a few months behind on the latest threats and countermeasures, they are dangerously out of date. According to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, the full cost of recovery was estimated...

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Published inMunicipal World Vol. 130; no. 12; pp. 19 - 20
Main Author Ridge, James
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published St. Thomas Municipal World Inc 01.12.2020
Subjects
COVID-19
Cybercrime
Cybersecurity
Data encryption
Information technology
Malware
Municipalities
Network security
Pandemics
Ransomware
Canada
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Summary:Are you budgeting $20,000 to $40,000 a year each for their professional development? Because if they are a few months behind on the latest threats and countermeasures, they are dangerously out of date. According to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, the full cost of recovery was estimated by both municipalities to be approximately $250,000 each. "According to the Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 research team, between March 9 and April 26, 2020, of the 1.2 million newly registered domains with COVID-19 related keywords, over 86,600 of them were classified as "risky" or "malicious."
ISSN:0027-3589