The National Association of Counties announced this week that it’s offering a cybersecurity risk evaluation tool for its members to test on their public networks, cloud vendors and other third-party providers.
The organization is partnering with SecurityScorecard, a platform that assigns letter grades, ranging from A to F, based on how many vulnerabilities are detected on a network or other system. SecurityScorecard will now be offered over NACo’s County Tech Xchange, a portal used by nearly 900 IT and security officials from the organization’s member counties.
Rita Reynolds, NACo‘s chief information officer, said SecurityScorecard was selected earlier this year for a pilot project aimed at helping county governments get a better grasp on their cybersecurity risks as governments navigate an increasingly complex — and expensive — insurance market. The questionnaires that insurers send out to potential clients can be long and complex, which Reynolds said was causing “lots of angst” among her members.
