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5 Keys To Avoiding Common Mistakes In Incident Response

StateTech, April 11th, 2023

State and local agencies should develop a plan, embrace the plan and test it thoroughly.

State and local governments take cybersecurity seriously. But sometimes, even the best defenses fail in the face of increasingly innovative bad actors.

As John Chambers famously said, 'There are only two types of organizations: those that have been hacked and those that don't know it yet.' If breaches are virtually inevitable, the best way to reduce their impact and cost is with an incident response (IR) plan and a team trained to implement it. Here are some best practices for state and local governments to follow for improved cybersecurity incident response.

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