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Atlanta’s recovery highlights the costly mistake of being unprepared

The Samsam attack against the city of Atlanta in March was chaotic and crippling. The city was infected more than a month after Microsoft released patches for the tool, but the infected servers were eventually patched. Atlanta has earmarked $1.4 million dollars for recovery and incident response. $50,000 for crisis communications from Edelman, a firm known for their work in this area. $60,000 was earmarked for Surge Support Staff Augmentation from Mosaic451 an MSSP headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3269315/atlantas-recovery-highlights-the-costly-mistake-of-being-unprepared.html

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