IDG Contributor Network: County and municipal cybersecurity, Part 1

The cybersecurity risk to local government
Weak or nonexistent cybersecurity programs represent a massive organizational risk for county and municipal government agencies in the United States. County and municipal executives are often unaware of these risks because they assume that their IT director, their CIO or an external vendor is managing security and addressing the risks. It is rare that such an assumption is correct.While the Ponemon Institute[i] found that “federal organizations ha