City Of Columbia Parks The Network

Why do we even bother with municipal IT when the City of Columbia can have its mapping tools, animal services, and park bookings crippled by ransomware in an afternoon? Local citizens hoping to adopt a pet or reserve a bench were treated to complete digital paralysis across multiple public services. Surviving this brand of civic farce requires deploying rigorous incident containment and specialist cyber defenses across municipal systems before SLED has to be called to conduct a post-mortem.