Information Services Group (ISG) recently released a report on how the U.S. public sector is strengthening cybersecurity measures. The report finds that state, local and educational (SLED) organizations, despite having lower profiles than the federal government, are still in significant danger. In 2022, ransomware attacks, among the most common threats, declined in number but grew more sophisticated, the report says. Local governments that suffered security breaches faced an average of five months of downtime.
In addition to increasingly advanced ransomware operations, which have forced agencies to strengthen data backup and recovery, SLED organizations face ongoing threats from internal errors and sabotage, while rapid cloud migration requires them to implement new protection measures, the report says.