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2018 CYBERSECURITY SUMMIT SPONSORS!! GOLD Ribbon Sponsors:  
 
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We are less than one month away from the 3rd Annual PA Cybersecurity Summit on October 1! Have you registered? We encourage ALL county officials to attend, so please share with those who you feel will benefit from this fantastic one day event! The flyer is below with all the information as well as a link for registration. Registration deadline is September 27. We already have 92 attendees registered, and we will sell out once we hit 120, so if you have not yet registered, now is the time!
September 10 & 11 will be the Quarterly PA Cybersafe and IT Directors quarterly meetings. It's not too late to register. Agendas for both meetings are available below.
CCAP Technology Services partners with outside technology vendors to provide additional products and services to our counties. We are able to make this possible through our TechNet Vendor Program. When you have the opportunity, please check out who they are and what they can potentially offer your county. All of our vendors are listed in the left column of the newsletter. You can also view all of our vendors on our TechNet Member Page. If you have had a wonderful experience with any of our current TechNet Members, we'd love to hear about it! Or, if you know of a Technology Company that has worked with you but is not yet a TechNet member and would be a great addition to the program, please reach out to Melissa Pavone at mpavone@pacounties.org.
We also offer our TechNet Members the opportunity to provide a relevant technology article to share in our monthly newsletters. This month, we are featuring articles from Cadre, Talk About Cloud First or Get There Last, and from GovPilot, C U in Court: How 2 Cities are Lowering Crime Rates through Texting.
Happy Reading!
We look forward to seeing you at next week's quarterly meetings and at the October 1 Cybersecurity Summit!
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Please join us at the CCAP office on October 1, 2018 for the Cyber Security Summit! We will discuss the latest trends and hottest topics from inustry leading experts. This is also a great networking opportunity and a chance to meet with security and technology vendors. Click on the link below to complete your registration. REGISTER HERE! |
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UCM Connect: October 16-17
UCM Report Writing: October 18-19
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Talk about Cloud First or Get There Last
By: Phil Swaim, Cadre
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There is no doubt the greatest innovation in IT of the last 10 years has been the public cloud and virtualization. Being able to deploy resources for storage, computing, and communication with 0 capital expenditure, little risk of failure, little expert technical knowledge required (especially true for SaaS offerings), and a near 0 barrier to entry has provided startups and well established enterprises the ability to rapidly develop and deploy new applications and expand business operations in a scalable on-demand fashion. According to RightScale 2017 survey, 89% of their respondents were using the Public Cloud and 95% were using either Private Cloud, Public Cloud, or a Hybrid of the two. Continue reading the full article.
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C U in Court: How 2 Cities are Lowering Crime Rates through Texting
By: Alannah Dragonetti, GovPilot
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"You have an upcoming court date and failure to appear will result in the issuance of a warrant for your arrest." It's a text message that no one wants to receive, but as cities, New York and Nashville, have recently found, it's a text message that many need to receive.
A Tale of Two Cities
In 2016, nearly four in ten New York City summons recipients failed to show-up in court. In an effort to curtail the number of missed court appearances, the long arm of the law reached for its smartphone.
As part of a little over a year-long experiment, the city began offering those summoned to court the option of providing their cell phone number to law enforcement. They would receive a text message reminder to appear as their court date approached. Though only about 11% agreed to share their number, this small sample responded well to text message alerts. The rate of failure to appear in court dropped 21%. Continue reading the full article.
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Cybersecurity Elections Table Top and MS-ISAC Membership
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There has been a great deal of work going on around cyber security these days. As noted earlier this afternoon, I along with a number of county CIOs attended the "Tabletop the vote 2018 National Election Cyber Exercise". This truly was an energizing afternoon of three modules of scenarios that we could encounter in relation to election security. The goal was to share and identify best practices across the United States as well as identify areas for improvement. The Pennsylvania participants included election directors, CIOs, Department of State staff, Office of Administration staff, Governor's Office staff, and PEMA staff. The scenarios were moderated by the Department of Homeland Security via a simulcast link. This allowed for other states to participate as well (states included, New Jersey, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, Iowa and many others). Read the full Summary.
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