{"id":6886,"date":"2019-10-22T06:08:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T10:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mml.org\/wp\/inside208\/?p=6886"},"modified":"2019-10-22T06:08:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T10:08:58","slug":"nlc-releases-cybersecurity-preparedness-guide-for-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2019\/10\/22\/nlc-releases-cybersecurity-preparedness-guide-for-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"NLC Releases Cybersecurity Preparedness Guide for Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of October being National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, NLC just released their newest guide, &#8220;<a title=\"https:\/\/www.nlc.org\/resource\/protecting-our-data-what-cities-should-know-about-cybersecurity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nlc.org\/resource\/protecting-our-data-what-cities-should-know-about-cybersecurity\">Protecting Our Data: What Cities Should Know About Cybersecurity<\/a>.&#8221; This guide it&#8217;s been a much-awaited research project for the last several months.\u00a0 NLC wrote this report for local elected and appointed officials, especially those who may not have a background in cybersecurity or network management. It was completed in collaboration with the Public Technology Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The guide outlines ten recommended first steps for city officials hoping to improve cybersecurity, includes a few really interesting case studies of local security breaches (including the time NLC was hit by ransomware!), and a checklist local IT directors can use to get started. NLC will be doing more work and programming on local cybersecurity over the next year and beyond. If you&#8217;re attending\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/citysummit.nlc.org\/\">NLC&#8217;s City Summit San Antonio<\/a>\u00a0next month, we&#8217;re hosting a &#8220;<a title=\"https:\/\/citysummit.nlc.org\/seminar\/cybersecurity-101\/\" href=\"https:\/\/citysummit.nlc.org\/seminar\/cybersecurity-101\/\">Cybersecurity 101<\/a>&#8221; workshop on Friday, November 22 during the conference.<\/p>\n<p><em>Herasanna Richards is a legislative associate handling energy, environmental, external municipal services and election issues for the League. \u00a0She can be reached at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:hrichards@mml.org\">hrichards@mml.org<\/a>\u00a0or 517-908-0309.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of October being National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, NLC just released their newest guide, &#8220;Protecting Our Data: What Cities Should Know About Cybersecurity.&#8221; This guide it&#8217;s been a much-awaited research project for the last several months.\u00a0 NLC wrote this report for local elected and appointed officials, especially those who  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":462,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","mml-onemagnify-plugin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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