Intelligent Fin.tech Issue 02 | Page 39

INDUSTRY OUTLOOK

SARASOTA SAVES MILLIONS IN RANSOM WITH VEEAM

Recently , the city of Sarasota was prone to a cyberattack , where the hackers demanded US $ 34 million in ransom for the city ’ s data . The municipality deployed Veeam ’ s solutions and managed to recover everything without paying a penny . Herminio Rodriguez , Information Technology Director for the City of Sarasota , tells us more . t

The business challenge
Sometimes it takes a crisis to demonstrate the power of city services , and no city knows this better than Sarasota . A coastal community on the Gulf of Mexico , Sarasota is vulnerable to hurricanes and flooding , and like most municipalities , it ’ s also vulnerable to ransomware attacks . To guarantee residents have uninterrupted access to city services , Sarasota created a digital component for nearly every service and modernised data protection in a facility that can withstand a Category 5 storm .
Sarasota offers many digital services . They include utility bill payment , permit applications , a domestic partner registry , crime mapping and an emergency management website that helps residents prepare for , respond to and recover from hazardous weather . www . intelligentfin . tech
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