2026 - Soft Targets: Why Small Municipalities Are Hackers' Favorite Prey

Overview: Good afternoon. Come on, let's try that again. Good afternoon. Um my name is Alton Henley. I'm the Dean of Business at Montgomery College, but before that I was a Hi. And before one of my colleagues, but before that I was an information systems professor teaching cybersecurity, data analytics, and software development. Every red team report that's been written for city government is sitting in a filing cabinet right now, unread, unimplemented, and marked for follow-up at a meeting that keeps get

Key Topics: ting rescheduled. I'm going to spend 15 to 20 minutes telling you why and what to do about it. I spend most of my week translating between people who write security device advice and the people who have to act