Municipal networks, from city halls to water utilities, are an increasingly attractive target for ransomware crews. In 2025, public-sector victims suffered a record-breaking surge, with 92 disclosed i…

(CCPA/CPRA, Colorado CPA, Virginia VCDPA & More) The New Privacy Patchwork A dozen-plus states now have comprehensive privacy statutes, and another wave, including Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota an…

A Decade Later—Why an Update Now? NIST issued the original Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) in 2014. On February 26, 2024, the agency released Version 2.0, its first major overhaul, incorporating a…

Avoiding the Audit Pitfalls that Trip Up Even Seasoned Vendors Why CJIS Still Matters - Especially in the Cloud Criminal-justice information (CJI) is now routinely processed by cloud-native dispatch, …

Cities and counties everywhere are under mounting pressure to make data freely available—from GIS layers and budget ledgers to real-time transit feeds. Done well, open-data portals fuel civic te…

Why SOC 2 Shows Up on Your Desk Whether you’re running a town hall help-desk server or supporting cloud-based 311 apps for a county, sooner or later a vendor, auditor, or council member will ask…