Dallas to pay $4Million for cyberattack detection system – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth>
– nbcdfw.com
“This equipment and associated services will be crucial to protecting the city’s network from cyber threats and hacks by alerting the Department of Information and Technology Services’ Security Operations Center to threats and abnormalities on the city network,” said city documents describing the council agenda item .“This solution will aid in protecting the city’s network and systems against internal and external cyber threats to the organization including potential ransomware.” Shawn Sutton, an strategic account manager with Netsync, said the city would be getting cybersecurity platform MixMode .He described it as a security and information event manager that “in basic terms, gives you a bird’s-eye view of your network looking for issues before they cause business interruptions.” A week before the May 3 ransomware attack, the City Council also approved a three-year, more than $873,000 contract with Netsync for the group to help the city get a threat detection option for devices such as city servers and employees’ desktops and laptop computers.
Link: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-to-pay-four-million-for-cyberattack-detection-system/3286463/