## [Mitigate IT Risk & Accelerate IT Maturity in Local Governments with Impact Makers](/content/it-maturity-local-governments/index.html)

by [Impact Makers](/content/author/impactmakers/ "Posts by Impact Makers"/index.html) \| Apr 6, 2022 \| [Public Sector](/content/category/public-sector/index.html), [Risk](/content/category/risk/index.html)

Cybersecurity is a significant issue in local governments because of external systems needing to connect with the public. For example, Impact Makers’ Vice President Joe Pugh remembers from his ten years serving at Chesterfield County that they had forty-seven lines of...

## [Cybersecurity Tips for the Holiday Season](/content/holiday-cybersecurity/index.html)

by [Impact Makers](/content/author/impactmakers/ "Posts by Impact Makers"/index.html) \| Dec 9, 2021 \| [Featured](/content/category/featured/index.html), [Risk](/content/category/risk/index.html)

By: Matt Bartles, Process Competency Center Lead, Impact Makers Holiday Cybersecurity Tips for 2021  The holiday season is when we catch up with friends and family and do lots of shopping! Unfortunately, it is also when financially motivated cyberthreats are at their...

## [Intelligent Automation May Take Your Work, But Not Your Job](/content/blog-intelligent-automation/index.html)

by [Impact Makers](/content/author/impactmakers/ "Posts by Impact Makers"/index.html) \| Nov 9, 2021 \| [Advisory / Strategy](/content/category/advisory/index.html), [Automation](/content/category/automation/index.html), [Featured](/content/category/featured/index.html)

By: Matt Bartles, Process Competency Center Lead, Impact Makers During the Industrial Revolution, machines started doing the work of people. Nearly everything was made by hand for generations. Seemly overnight machines could make things faster and cheaper...

## [The Realities of Ransomware. Prevent, Protect, Prepare.](/content/addressing-threat-of-ransomware/index.html)

by [Impact Makers](/content/author/impactmakers/ "Posts by Impact Makers"/index.html) \| Sep 21, 2021 \| [Advisory / Strategy](/content/category/advisory/index.html), [Public Sector](/content/category/public-sector/index.html), [Risk](/content/category/risk/index.html)

Over the past year, there have been several high-profile ransomware attacks in which the target paid the ransom. In May, Colonial Pipeline was hacked with ransomware by DarkSide. This left many on the East Coast without gas and caused panicked gas stockpiling...

## [Facial Recognition: Does the “Public Domain” Equal “Fair Game”?](/content/facial-recognition-does-the-public-domain-equal-fair-game/index.html)

by [Impact Makers](/content/author/impactmakers/ "Posts by Impact Makers"/index.html) \| Aug 4, 2020 \| [Advisory / Strategy](/content/category/advisory/index.html), [Risk](/content/category/risk/index.html)

By Ryan Meglathery I would like to preface this article with a disclaimer: I am not now, nor have I ever been, nor am I likely to ever be a lawyer. I haven’t even played one on TV so, take what I say with a grain of salt with regards to the legal matters. That said, I...