Cybersecurity resources for Alabama communities
ByAre you looking for stronger cybersecurity practices for your municipality?
The State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program (SLCGP) and the Alabama Cybersecurity Intelligence Center (ACIC) can help solve your needs. Recent years have increased the urgency and need for advanced cybersecurity capabilities, which you may find yourself needing help with at the local level.
The overarching goal of Alabama’s SLCGP program is to raise the collective cybersecurity posture of our state by assisting local governments in determining their current cybersecurity readiness level, identifying key areas of improvement or enhancement, and providing pathways which enable entities to acquire the necessary resources to strengthen their systems and processes
In 2021, the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), was signed into law. One component of the act is the SLCGP, which appropriated $1 billion over four rounds of funding to address cybersecurity risks and threats to information systems owned or operated by, or on behalf of, state, local or tribal governments (SLT). Alabama was allocated approximately $19 million.
