Cyber-attacks on government agencies are happening at an alarming rate. These attacks cost U.S. state and local governments millions of dollars in remediation and disrupt employee work and citizen services. Governments must be concerned about the loss of sensitive citizen, client and employee information, whether through a cyber event on a PC or unauthorized access to documents at the printer. According to a Verizon study, personal information is the top type of data lost in public sector breaches. The costs of such a breach can quickly escalate. One study estimates an organization will incur $2.2 million in costs for a data breach that involves less than 10,000 compromised records.
