Dallas City Council greenlights $4 million deal for cyberattack detection system
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.City communications director Catherine Cuellar declined Wednesday to give any update on the city’s latest progress in its ransomware recovery.
The city said May 6 that cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike was helping IT workers make sure infected city devices were quarantined and cleaned to prevent the spread of any viruses.Dallas officials have mainly cited an ongoing criminal investigation into the attack as reason to still not yet give specific details related to the cyber incident. Details on the scope of the attack, how it happened and the amount of recovery work the city has done still haven’t been released by city officials.
. City officials have said they haven’t found proof that information from workers or residents have been publicly released.
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