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Cybersecurity in Local Government

Author
Joe Supervielle, Parham Eftekhari, Hemant Desai
Published
Wed 29 Dec 2021
Episode Link
https://www.icma.org/podcasts

Parham Eftekhari, Executive Director at the Cybersecurity Collaborative, and Hemant Desai, Chief Information Officer at the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), discuss the universal threat of cyber-attacks and the unique challenges local governments face as high-profile targets, including:

  • What are best practices?
  • What do we prioritize?
  • How can we train a reluctant staff?
  • How to translate between a city manager and the CTO role?
  • How can we demonstrate urgency to gain more resources?
  • What are realistic and measurable goals beyond did we suffer a major attack or not?

Resources:

ICMA Cybersecurity Leadership Academy

Cybersecurity Collaborative

Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency

Cybersecurity Considerations to Implement IoT
 

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