Talia Weiner reports:
The Township of Montclair’s insurer negotiated a settlement of $450,000 with the people behind a recent “cyber incident” in order to end the attack, a report says.
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“To guard against future incidents, the township has installed the most sophisticated dual authentication system available to its own system and it is currently up and running,” Hartnett said.
Is that all it would have taken to prevent such a devastating attack? What did that system cost them? And is that all they’ve done to prevent future attacks? Taxpayers might want to ask a lot of questions as to how weak Montclair’s infosec was at the time of the attack, and if it was weak, why?
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