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By Stephanie Kanowitz
May 24, 2021
The IT security team and the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) in Arapahoe County, Colo., are working together to improve cybersecurity incident response.
Traditionally, issues such as active shooters and critical infrastructure haven been considered separate from IT, but they intersect, Amber Winthers, an IT cybersecurity analyst for the county, said during a May 13 Route Fifty event.
For instance, in both situations, “you don’t necessarily know where an attack is or what it is, but you know that you have to start somewhere,” Winthers said. “You have to activate your incident command structure, you have to put resources in place, you have to have a process for these things,” she said. “We started breaking down those barriers making the language the same, making the process the same.”