Cybersecurity Primer for Local Leaders

This Primer is designed as a tool to help you build your own understanding and capabilities so that you can work with your IT and security leaders to assess and manage your county’s cyber risks. It provides a snapshot of select cybersecurity considerations for protecting public assets. It answers questions that county leaders said were most pressing to them. It presents, in simple business terms, the most common cyber threats and current practices for addressing them. In short, this Primer is designed to help local leaders know what it needs to identify, protect, detect, respond to, and recover from security breaches, and presents a set of actions you can start taking today to increase your ability to manage cyber risks.