On a daily basis, how many times to enter a password? Between your e-mail accounts, bank accounts, tools for your job and your streaming services, it’s getting more and more difficult for Idahoans to keep track of the scroll of passwords they have to remember.
Unfortunately, cyberattacks have become more and more common in Idaho. While we know from personal experience how quickly a cyberattack can cripple the workplace, it’s even worse when the cyberattack affects an important service.
Recent Cyberattacks in Idaho Exposed
You may remember that last July, the Ada County Sheriff’s Department detected some unusual activity in their Emergency Communication systems. As a result, they temporarily took their Computer Aided Dispatch system offline to work with cybersecurity and data forensics experts to investigate what happened and how it happened. While it didn’t completely halt 911 and non-emergency dispatch, the county’s dispatchers did have to work on backup systems and processes while they sorted it out.
Earlier this year, the Jefferson School District in Rigby had to cancel school for a few days due to a cyberattack. East Idaho News reports that the district was targeted by a ransomware attack, rendering the day to day technology that teachers used in their classroom useless. The district’s IT department didn’t feel comfortable bringing the technology back online until they had a better grasp on the attack. They also wanted to give teachers enough time to prepare the best way to teach their lessons without access to the technology they were accustomed to…