LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Everything the county does runs on a network.

Courts, police records, permits, payroll, utility billing, and elections all sit on systems — usually maintained by a small IT department, or by an outside provider who has never been asked about security.

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What’s at stake

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When the network goes down, residents cannot pay a bill, pull a permit, or get a police report.
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You hold criminal justice records, tax records, and payment card data under three different sets of rules.
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Local governments are attacked because attackers know the budget for stopping them is small.

What we cover

Around-the-clock monitoring of every county system by people, not just software
Remote access for staff and vendors that verifies every user and device, every time
Email defense that stops fraudulent payment and vendor change requests before someone acts on one
Continuous watch for employee passwords appearing for sale
Training for the staff who handle payments, records, and public inboxes
A tested plan for keeping services running while systems are down
Physical security, cameras, and access control for county facilities

Departments share one network, so the watch is one program: managed cybersecurity and 24/7 monitoring, plus an unlimited IT help desk so staff in every building call one number. A risk assessment gives you the findings to take to the council.

Run your own water or wastewater plant? See Water & Utilities.

Case Study

City of Atlanta

2018 · Services disrupted for weeks · Recovery reported in the millions

What happened

Ransomware shut down city systems. Residents could not pay water bills or parking tickets. Court dates were postponed. Police went back to writing reports by hand, and years of stored evidence footage was lost. The ransom demand was about $51,000. The recovery cost the city many times that.

How they got in

Reporting and the later federal indictment point to remote access left open to the internet and weak passwords, on a network where a city audit had already flagged thousands of unaddressed problems months earlier.

How TRINSEC 7 stops this attack

Nothing sits open to the internet unguarded. We verify the person and the device on every connection, so an exposed login is not a way in.
A password alone gets an attacker nothing. We watch the criminal market for your employees' credentials and force a reset before anyone can use one.
Findings don't sit in a report for months. We work the list with you and keep every machine and application current.
Someone is watching at 3 a.m. Our team monitors your systems around the clock, so an intruder doesn't get days to spread.

Public incident, reported from open sources. Not a TRINSEC 7 client.

Find out what an attacker can already see.

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