Kresge Research Guides: TO 300 Business Information Systems 2025 Winter A: #13 Cybersecurity for Municipality

Library Research Consultant

Laura Berdish (berdish@umich.edu)

Local Government Cybersecurity Landscape: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework
Applied Sciences, 14(13), 5501. (Open Access) https://doi-org.proxy.lib.umich.edu/10.3390/app14135501
From the Special Issue: Advanced Cybersecurity Applications: Solutions to Counteract Cyber Threats

NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Downloadable documents from the NIST that can be used for city security planning.
Smart City Cyber Security Framework
From SmartCitySecurity.net, a portal for research on smart city deployment and security issues, based on the NIST standards.
NIST Smart Cities and Communities Frameworks Series
Best Practices from the NIST

Cybersecurity Best Practices for Smart Cities
Collaborative effort from the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the United States National Security Agency (NSA), the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK), the Australian Cyber
Security Centre (ACSC), the Canadian Centre
for Cyber Security (CCCS), and the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NZ).

Gartner
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Suggested reports:

System Program Management - How to Select Your Security Frameworks, Controls and Processes. Aug 8, 2022
Implement 4 Essentials - NIST Cybersecurity Framework. May 11, 2021
Implementing the CARE Standard to Frame Cybersecurity as a Business Decision. Nov 2, 2021

ABI/INFORM Collection
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Business Source Complete
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Gartner
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Gartner's market research and advisory services covering vendor selection, implementation and metrics for a variety of cybersecurity and smart city products and service segments.
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Suggested search terms: cyber risk; cybersecurity; NIST; CARE; ransomware

Recommended Gartner reports:

Simplify Cybersecurity With a Platform Consolidation Framework. 26 March 2024
Top Trends in Cybersecurity for 2025. 12 December 2024
Best Practices for Cyber-Risk Management: Plan, Secure and Monitor the Life Cycle. 28 June 2023
Cool Vendors in Data Security. 2024
Cyber Risk Primer. 2024
Market Guide for Security Threat Intelligence Products and Services. 2024

Never too small for cybercriminals: One town's cautionary tale
Forrester researcher blog posting focusing on recent issues in Arlington, MA.