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Bitcoin, backups, and boardrooms
Tabletop exercises as a strategic tool for municipal cyber preparedness
Ransomware is a type of cyberattack where criminals lock your data and demand money to unlock it. A tabletop exercise helps pressure-test how a council might respond to the unexpected. Photo: Adobe Stock
Published in
September 2025
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Imagine you are a municipal leader, and someone on your staff describes a red screen demanding “$50,000 in Bitcoin to be paid within the next 72 hours.” You are told the note continues, “Failure to pay will result in your data being permanently deleted.” You soon learn the very technologies keeping your core operations going are inaccessible. Then comes the worst news: recovery will not be possible, as the backups have also been hit.
Ransomware.
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