Security, Compliance & Regulations

Municipal Ransomware Playbook: Prepare, Detect, Contain, Recover June 23, 2025
Municipal Ransomware Playbook: Prepare, Detect, Contain, Recover
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…

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Managing PII Under Emerging U.S. State Privacy Laws June 23, 2025
Managing PII Under Emerging U.S. State Privacy Laws
(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…

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NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0: What’s New and Why Cities Should Care June 23, 2025
NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0: What’s New and Why Cities Should Care
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…

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CJIS Compliance Checklist for SaaS Public-Safety Apps June 23, 2025
CJIS Compliance Checklist for SaaS Public-Safety Apps
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, …

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Balancing Open Data Initiatives with Cyber Risk June 23, 2025
Balancing Open Data Initiatives with Cyber Risk
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…

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Demystifying SOC 2 for Municipal IT Teams:  What the Trust Services Criteria Mean in Plain English June 23, 2025
Demystifying SOC 2 for Municipal IT Teams: What the Trust Services Criteria Mean in Plain English
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…

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