Cybersecurity for
Public Services and Municipalities
Why Cybersecurity is Important for Municipalities
With the rise of hacktivism, government agencies and public sector organizations are facing increasingly complex challenges to secure their assets from cyberattacks. Cybercriminals, often state-funded, seek to disrupt critical infrastructure and operations depending heavily on the internet or internal networks to function. They also attempt to compromise confidential information, national secrets or critical intelligence. These attackers will aim for any weak point in your systems to gain access to other critical systems/databases, which is why it’s become such a necessity to regularly audit all of your operations to identify every way in which you could be compromised.
“In 2019, many local governments in the United States were forced to declare a state of emergency due to damaging cyberattacks.”
38% of all malicious actors and attackers are state-sponsored
Canadian local governments saw a 20% increase in cyberattacks in May 2020
Questions to Assess Your Cybersecurity
- Do you have an incident response procedure ?
- How often do you perform a security audit ?
- Are your sensitive databases adequately secured ?
- Do you have mechanisms aiming to prevent disruptive attacks ?
Challenges faced by Public Services & Municipalities
- Protect sensitive data from leaks.
- Educate employees about cybersecurity risks.
- Protect yourself from malicious actors internally.
- Prevent attacks aiming to disrupt the availability of the services.
- Integrate new technologies into existing systems.
Contact a Cybersecurity Specialist
A specialist will reach out to:
- Understand your needs
- Determine your project scope
- Provide a cost estimate
- Send you a detailed proposal