5 Data Security Issues for Local Governments via a State Auditor

Top 5 data security vulnerabilities for local governments:

  • passwords of officials and staff
  • providing too great of access to computer network to officials/employees
  • failure to automatically locking systems after non-use
  • inadequate backups
  • failure to restrict editing by users and failure to track edits by users

Missouri State Auditor | Findings in the summary report of common cybersecurity mistakes