New Federal Cybersecurity Grant Programs

What’s happening? FEMA is increasing the allocation of grants for cybersecurity funding from 5% to 7.5% + DHS is eyeing new grant programs, administered through the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, to support state and local government cybersecurity upgrades

Why is this important? Cybersecurity incidents on local governments and state governments have increased and continue to increase year over year.

How will this be important? Cybersecurity issues are not waning.

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