Yuma, a beautiful, growing community of over 3,500 residents, is located in the northeast corner of Colorado. Yuma has a Mayor, City Council Government with seven elected members and an appointed City Manager who are paving the way for the future of Yuma. The City employs over 40 people who take pride in their excellent city services
The Challenge
With increasing rates of ransomware attacks across governments, the challenges of cybersecurity have become increasingly worrisome. Yuma knows that hackers look to governments for the highly confidential information that they store, and that IT has to do more with fewer resources. The City of Yuma’s leadership wanted to enhance their cybersecurity infrastructure and provide relevant cybersecurity training to all employees and council members to help keep their residents’ data private and secure.
The SIPA Solution
SIPA, in partnership with RubinBrown, utilizes the KnowBe4 solution to improve government cybersecurity through training. KnowBe4 is the world’s largest integrated platform for security awareness training combined with simulated phishing attacks. They manage the continuing problem of social engineering via their following tools:
- Automated training campaigns
- Simulated phishing security tests
- Security awareness education
- Compliance
- Robust reporting with stats and graphs to show participant results
Results
Having a security awareness training provider that delivers a wide variety of content was less expensive than expected, as were the efforts required to manage the platform. The cybersecurity awareness training program empowered and educated their staff and council on the current cyber threat landscape in order to reduce the risk of cyberattacks and built a strong security culture within their government organization. Feedback from employees on the effectiveness of the simulated phishing campaigns demonstrated the return on investment.
“Security is vital to the city. Shifting the culture was difficult at first, but now people embrace the processes and approaches with KnowBe4. It was super quick to implement, and the new user onboarding process is simple. We are happy to have found an affordable solution that mitigates risk for our city. Thank you SIPA for your continued support in offering cybersecurity solutions.” -Scott Moore, City Manager, City of Yuma