Contra Costa County’s 28 agencies were left with a decentralized approach to its cybersecurity.
Problems Addressed:
Crafting a uniform approach to cybersecurity strategy in county government is particularly challenging given the wide breadth and depth of requirements across a range of security domains; data privacy, availability of critical resources and systems, mandates for special protection of officially designed critical infrastructure, and even variances in acceptable risk tolerance levels by agency, to name a few.
Over time, the variance in needs in Contra Costa County resulted in a decentralized approach to cybersecurity across the county’s 28 agencies. This dynamic is common in many County governments and fosters an environment with an inconsistent implementation of…
