Municipality Cybersecurity Services

Protect Your Organization From Top to Bottom

Municipalities face a number of unique challenges. They have many different departments and often many different hardware and software platforms with differing cybersecurity capabilities. In fact, standardization of technology, security policies, and procedures within an organization are often never achieved, meaning that one — or many — facets of your organization could be compromised. Cyber attacks to emergency services, police, government, and public utilities can result in public safety concerns, public outcry, and recovery costs totaling millions of dollars.

The stakes are high, and you can’t afford to settle for the average cybersecurity company. Read more about the cybersecurity services offered at Cyberstone below and contact our team to learn more about how we can help you protect your municipality.

Common Cybersecurity Risks for Municipalities

• Outdated software
• Ineffective policies and procedures
• Inadequate staff training
• Malware
• Ransomware
• Phishing schemes
• Data breaches
• Inadequate staff training

Is Your Municipality in Compliance?

Municipalities face a variety of stringent and constantly changing compliance requirements. Various departments within a municipality may accept credit cards, leading to PCI-DSS compliance concerns. Police departments must follow CJIS rules. All departments must have a level of cybersecurity governance in place tuned to the unique risk factors facing their department and the municipality as a whole.

As a leading cybersecurity service provider, we can tell you with confidence that meeting and keeping up with the latest laws and regulations is difficult in a single sector, let alone a multifaceted municipality. When you consider the number of entities and security differences discussed above, becoming fully compliant — or even developing consistent practices across your organization — can feel like a monumental task. We can also tell you with confidence that the three-pronged approach to security and compliance outlined below has helped various municipalities across the country achieve consistency, compliance, and peace of mind.

Cyberstone’s Approach to Municipality Security And Compliance Is As Follows:

  Assess: To know where you’re going, you must know where you currently stand. To do security right, you need a baseline from which to work. Only then can you focus your efforts on reducing your unique risk.

  Policy: With a baseline established, and using your mission and vision statements as inputs, you are now ready to write cybersecurity policies that will guide employee behavior and to control risks associated with cyber incidents.

  Technical Controls: Now that you know where you stand and have a written plan for going from an area of high-risk to an area of lower-risk, it’s time to implement technical controls. Spending money on things like firewalls, content filtering, and data loss prevention should only occur after you have spent time on the previous two items.

Why Work With the Cyberstone Team?

• Vision: Our mission is to become the best cybersecurity company in the nation. We know that it’s a lofty aspiration, but we also know that we can get there. We continually train our staff, invest in new technology, and keep up with the latest cybersecurity developments to provide clients with an experience they won’t receive from any other cybersecurity company.
• Experience: You can’t afford to take chances when it comes to keeping your organization secure. Many up-and-coming companies offer too-good-to-be-true cybersecurity promises at prices well below the industry standard, but experience is often the difference between successful and unsuccessful training and security measures. Our team has more than 165 years of collective experience and more than 23 diverse certifications in a range of different industries. You’ll notice the difference experience makes.
• Efficiency: We approach every project we take on with a growth mindset. We work quickly to identify what needs to be done, how it needs to be done, who needs to do it, and then get to work. We’ve worked tirelessly to eliminate red tape and busy work throughout our organization to provide you with actionable results as soon as possible.

Take the Next Steps Toward a Secure and Compliant Organization

Your municipality stands to lose a lot from a cybersecurity breach. Lost data may not be able to be recovered; the public could lose trust in your institution; and one wrong move could cost you millions of dollars in the long run.

At Cyberstone, our mission is to provide cutting-edge cybersecurity services across the nation. Whether your staff could use in-depth training about cybersecurity best practices or you’d like to overhaul your processes and improve security from top to bottom, you can count on Cyberstone for support, guidance, and industry-leading cybersecurity.

Contact us to learn more about how we can help you protect your organization.