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Remote work marked ‘culmination’ of NYC Cyber Command’s cloud initiatives, agency heads said

StateScoop: While the coronavirus pandemic halted in-person operations for government agencies across nearly every large American city this year, the shift to remote work represented a vindication of sorts for New York City Cyber Command. In a webinar Wednesday, its leaders described the organization as one of the most prepared in the country for manmade and natural disasters.

NYC3 leaders shared their strategy for ensuring that the coronavirus pandemic did not interrupt the city’s cybersecurity initiatives, attributing much of the continuity to a new cloud-based data storage system that enabled the agency to ingest security data while keeping tight control over how it was shared.

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