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Hackers focus their efforts on emails and business applications, a target of opportunity because
they are often accessible from the Internet. Hackers also know that compromising an application
can provide access to a treasure trove of backend data. Application security is extremely difficult
to get right. Securing applications is technically challenging and now requires sophisticated tools
and training to avoid common pitfalls that hackers often exploit.

The City of Marion IT department is National headlines continue to tell the
responsible for over 300 devices stories of major data breaches and cyber
with that comes with end users, the attacks against government agencies, 5
more users the higher the threat. known attacks happened within a 200
Our security initiatives will focus on mile radius. The City of Marion IT
ensuring the confidentiality and department approach is to be as
integrity of our resources while proactive as possible in helping the
increasing the level of security organization prevent, detect, respond to
awareness and education of our end and recover from targeted attacks.
user community. We continue to Firewalls, email protections, two factor
enhance our data and network authentication, access controls and many
infrastructure and update our other tools must be deployed with regular
information security policies as updates to help keep the network and
needed. applications secure.
Key Strategies:

• Provide testing and training to raise employee awareness in an
attempt to help prevent phishing and other cyberattacks.
Security • Include security considerations from the beginning in implementation

of new business processes and software systems.

• Includes strategies to remain focused on department goals, data
In one day we successfully held off 5,306 brute protection and security threats

force cyberattacks.

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