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IAMU will be hosting a Cyber Security webinar on June 13th.

The presentation will include an overview of the current cyber threat landscape as it applies to municipal utilities and with utility recommendations for best practices and overview of the resources CISA has available to help Critical Infrastructure owners and operators enhance they security programs.

Chris Cockburn, CISSP Cybersecurity Advisor, Region 7, and Chris Judge, Protective Security Advisor, Iowa, from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will be the presenters.

Please click here for more information and to register.

This event is open to IAMU member utilities only.  For help logging into our website to complete registration, please contact Josh Trout at jtrout@iamu.org.

In accordance with section 11.6(7) of the Code of Iowa, The Office of Auditor of State is to be immediately notified of any suspected embezzlement, theft, or other significant financial irregularities.  The Auditor recently learned of amounts a City paid email scammers posing as vendors and determined it is in the public interest to issue this Alert to help prevent other governmental subdivisions form falling victim to the same circumstances.

In January 2020, the Auditor issued an Alert regarding unknown parties which had attempted to fraudulently misdirect state and local governmental entities in Iowa into issuing payments by posing as vendors.  A copy of the Alert can be found here.

Read the full notice from the Auditor here.