{"id":852,"date":"2022-04-01T12:27:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senatorwaltertimilty.com\/?p=852"},"modified":"2022-06-21T12:29:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T16:29:42","slug":"senator-timilty-hosts-ma-national-guard-cybersecurity-briefing-for-local-municipalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senatorwaltertimilty.com\/senator-timilty-hosts-ma-national-guard-cybersecurity-briefing-for-local-municipalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Timilty Hosts MA National Guard Cybersecurity   Briefing for Local Municipalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">BRAINTREE, MA \u2013 State Senator Walter F. Timilty (D-Milton), Senate Chair of the Joint Committee of Public Safety and Homeland Security, hosted a cybersecurity briefing offered by the Massachusetts National Guard for the municipalities of the Norfolk, Bristol, and Plymouth District. The briefing was held at the Braintree Armory on Wednesday [03\/30\/2022].\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">Timilty said that by engaging the cyber force of the Massachusetts National Guard, cities and towns within the Commonwealth will be able to defend themselves against and triage a cyber crisis.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">\u201cThe National Guard is in a position to support our municipalities in upholding critical infrastructure,\u201d Timilty stated. \u201cWe have seen cities and towns, as well as other government agencies, hit, very recently, by malicious hackers. It is my hope that by introducing city and town leaders to the Massachusetts National Guard cyber team, that we can eliminate the risk of dangerous and expensive cyber-attacks.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><a name=\"_Hlk99704256\"><\/a><span class=\"normaltextrun\">Massachusetts Adjutant General Gary W. Keefe <\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\">welcomed the attendees and Lieutenant Colonel Karmin Ng, chief information officer, provided the briefing on the cyber security services that the Guard offers.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">In recent years, the National Guard has become a first responder to cyberattacks and are serving on the frontlines of the digital domain.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">Municipal leaders that were invited included select board members, town council members, information technology directors, school superintendents, and town managers from Avon, Braintree, Canton, Easton, East Bridgewater, Milton, Randolph, Sharon, Stoughton, and West Bridgewater.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRAINTREE, MA \u2013 State Senator Walter F. Timilty (D-Milton), Senate Chair of the Joint Committee of Public Safety and Homeland &#8230; <a class=\"cz_readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.senatorwaltertimilty.com\/senator-timilty-hosts-ma-national-guard-cybersecurity-briefing-for-local-municipalities\/\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span>Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senatorwaltertimilty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senatorwaltertimilty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senatorwaltertimilty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senatorwaltertimilty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senatorwaltertimilty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.senatorwaltertimilty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/www.senatorwaltertimilty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senatorwaltertimilty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senatorwaltertimilty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senatorwaltertimilty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senatorwaltertimilty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}