Municipalities today are dealing with an unanticipated number of cyberthreats, Merritt Maxim, an analyst at Forrester, said last week at the RSA Conference 2020.
Local and state governments are increasingly being targeted by ransomware attacks, phishing emails and business email compromise. And emerging technologies being adopted by cities – like facial recognition, smart-city technologies like smart lighting, and 5G-driven IoT – are opening up municipalities to even more security and privacy threats. Worse, governments aren’t ready to keep up with defending against these threats.
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