Date/Time: February 26, 11:00 AM PT
Description:
Local governments today face a paradoxical challenge: cybersecurity awareness is high, yet critical gaps in protection remain. In 2024 and 2025, Springbrook surveyed nearly 350 local government professionals to understand how agencies are perceiving risk, allocating funding, and modernizing their technology stacks. The results reveal a sector in transition. While 58% of agencies increased their cybersecurity budgets in 2025 , spending often struggles to keep pace with the sophistication of modern threats, such as AI-enhanced attacks and ransomware.
Join Springbrook Software and Summit Security Group for in-depth review of the 2026 National Cybersecurity Survey, where we will break down the two-year analysis of cyber readiness and provide actionable tactics your agency can utilize now.
In this webinar, we will cover:
- The Awareness vs. Reality Gap: Why awareness of ransomware attacks dropped from 86% to 70% in one year, and what this “normalization” of risk means for your agency.
- Budget & Grant Trends: An analysis of why budget increases are slowing and how agencies are successfully securing grant funding (with 43% receiving funds in 2025).
- The Fragmentation Risk: How running multiple ERP systems complicates patch management and identity security, and the case for consolidation.
- Essential Defenses: Why 40% of agencies still lack a .gov domain and how Zero Trust policies are becoming the new standard for public safety.
- Modernization Pathways: Strategies for moving from legacy on-premise infrastructure to secure, cloud-native platforms.
Who Should Attend: This session is designed for Finance Directors, IT Leadership, City Managers, and Administration officials looking to benchmark their cybersecurity posture against national peers.
Register here