City aims to help locals guard against cyber attacks at October Cyber Conference
With cyber attacks becoming more common, sophisticated and lucrative, the City of Fort St. John has decided to take the bull by the horns and host a cyber conference to provide information and strategies so that businesses, organizations and individuals can protect their information from nefarious attacks.
In the wake of the city’s experience with a cyber attack this spring, people in the community reached out to the city to talk about their experiences with cyber crime.
“We learned right away that this was not an uncommon event,” said Milo MacDonald, Fort St. John’s Chief Administrative Officer. “And that there are some steps you can take to make yourself less vulnerable.”
Although the incident had the potential to be very serious, city emerged relatively unscathed from it, and MacDonald feels it’s important to share their experience while providing tools to help others in the community to avoid similar incidents.
“We just thought there would be a real advantage in giving the business community, the non-profit community and the government institutions that serve our community an opportunity to get some cutting-edge practices,” he said.