Municipal Cybersecurity: Building the "Last Mile" of Resiliency
summary
Massachusetts describes specific municipal fixes: a state cyber center convenes a monthly working group, funds grants and an office of municipal school technology, and deploys vendor health check phishing campaigns and funding for device/internet subsidies via Mass Internet Connect. The state counts 351 cities and towns with no county IT, so it funds a statewide cybersecurity director, an incident coordination policy and a training academy for forensics; those programs are already in use and inform a post‑2019 NGA roadmap.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:00Mass Cyber Center
- 3:45Cybersecurity at the State Level
- 7:28Support for Municipal Cybersecurity
- 14:25Impact of Cybersecurity on the Economy
- 18:43How is the Executive Office Involved
- 23:53How Does the Economic Recovery Get Synchronized
- 25:59How Does the Fusion Center Get Synchronized
- 30:13Governors Association Policy Workshop
- 35:04Communication
- 38:49Communication with municipalities
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