Securing America's Digital Infrastructure-OK, You've Been Breached. Now What?

Despite hard work and the best intentions, state and local governments are vulnerable to cyberattacks. Incidents occur. It’s not a question of if you’ll be the victim of an attack, but when. What happens next is just as critical as everything governments do to protect themselves from being breached in the first place.

The first step is incident detection – seeing the breach and identifying its extent and impact. IT leaders must then respond to stop the disruption, protect any critical data at risk of being lost and ensure all critical services can continue. The response also includes everything from negotiating with attackers to deciding how and when to communicate to the public.

Join us January 11, 2022 at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET to listen in on an extremely valuable discussion about how state and local governments must respond to cyberattacks. This conversation, part of Government Technology and the Center for Digital Government’s long-running series on cyber resilience, will explore a number of key areas, including:

• What a proper incident detection and response plan looks like
• Why it’s crucial to identify and rehearse response plans ahead of time – and what most governments forget
• How to identify key decision-makers and chain of command in a crisis