{"id":259254,"date":"2026-05-29T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/transformative-federal-cyber-grants-face-an-uncertain-future\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T00:50:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:50:36","slug":"transformative-federal-cyber-grants-face-an-uncertain-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/transformative-federal-cyber-grants-face-an-uncertain-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformative Federal Cyber Grants Face an Uncertain Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/magazine\/transformative-federal-cyber-grants-face-an-uncertain-future\">Transformative Federal Cyber Grants Face an Uncertain Future<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/magazine\/transformative-federal-cyber-grants-face-an-uncertain-future\">https:\/\/www.governing.com\/magazine\/transformative-federal-cyber-grants-face-an-uncertain-future<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-29 12:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.governing.com\">www.governing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                    In the government offices of a midsized Connecticut town, a cursor was moving across the screen \u2014 only no one was touching the mouse, and no one was sitting at the machine. It was the start of what could\u2019ve become a major cybersecurity event, says state CIO Mark Raymond. But town personnel had been trained to recognize the early signs of a hack. They had an incident response plan at the ready and shut down the hack \u201cin a matter of moments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was \u201cincredibly helpful in not having this escalate into a big sort of event,\u201d Raymond says.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, the town might not have had that plan. When the state evaluated some local governments\u2019 cybersecurity in 2020, it found \u201cpeople were doing the minimum, or, in some cases, not the minimum,\u201d Raymond recalls.<\/p>\n<p><span data-bsp-pv=\"4f8e492c-6f2f-390e-bc61-f176d3a37ab9\"\/><span data-bsp-pv=\"0000019e-46c4-d6dd-a19f-76ec9fdb0000\"\/><br \/>Some local governments had virus protection and data backups, and some large towns were doing well on cyber. But most local governments were struggling. Plenty of towns were using equipment too old to be patched, and failed to conduct phishing tests \u2014 which train employees to be alert to phishing attacks \u2014 or to use multifactor authentication. Almost none had detailed plans in place for responding to cyber attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Then the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program (SLCGP) launched. Passed as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, it was designed to provide $1 billion from 2022-2025 for state and local cybersecurity needs. The bulk of the funds were funneled from states to local governments through direct subgrants, shared services or other methods, and provided much-needed resources to help cities, towns and counties shore up their defenses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The grant] ensured that the majority of the funds went to those who needed it most,\u201d Raymond says, with 80 percent designated for local governments and 25 percent for rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>States who received these grants still have up to three years to spend their&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/magazine\/transformative-federal-cyber-grants-face-an-uncertain-future\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transformative Federal Cyber Grants Face an Uncertain Future https:\/\/www.governing.com\/magazine\/transformative-federal-cyber-grants-face-an-uncertain-future Publish Date: 2026-05-29 12:15:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/f05b14b\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/840x408+0+0\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2F22%2F4d%2Fdadad8ab481dbfcda0429ff9bc7c%2Fgovq2web-art-deptgrants.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-259254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259256,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259254\/revisions\/259256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}