Cybersecurity for Cities and Towns
Practical security programs for municipal IT teams that support finance, public works, police, and fire with limited staff.
Capabilities and sectors
How each HQT capability applies to the agencies we serve, with the systems, constraints, and starting points specific to each.
Practical security programs for municipal IT teams that support finance, public works, police, and fire with limited staff.
Security programs spanning health, human services, justice, elections, and public works, each with its own regulatory obligations.
Protecting dispatch, records, and mobile systems under the CJIS Security Policy without compromising availability.
Segmenting and defending control systems and the business systems that surround them.
Ransomware-resistant security for districts with thousands of devices, small teams, and student privacy obligations.
Security fundamentals for fire, water, park, library, and regional agencies without in-house IT security staff.
Resident-facing services, staff tools, and integrations between the platforms a city already owns.
Modernizing case management, integrating departmental systems, and building the tools commercial platforms leave out.
Agile and DevSecOps delivery on large state programs, directly and as a subcontractor.
Getting city systems out of the basement, modernizing networks across facilities, and keeping cloud costs predictable.
Consolidating departmental infrastructure and running enterprise services across dozens of independent departments.
Right-sized infrastructure, identity, and support for agencies without a full IT department.
Cross-departmental reporting, outcome measurement, and data sharing that respects confidentiality rules.
Council reporting, open data, and operational dashboards built on definitions everyone agrees with.
Turning meter, sensor, and asset data into leak detection, condition assessment, and rate support.
Operational reporting, state mandates, and public transparency built from dispatch and records data.
Connecting dispatch, records, evidence, courts, and GIS, and building the tools vendors do not provide.
Integration across sheriff, probation, jail, courts, and prosecutors, and the reporting that spans them.
Independent help specifying, buying, and overseeing the systems a city will live with for a decade.
Requirements, architecture, independent verification, and oversight on large state technology programs.
Rider-facing services, open data feeds, and integration between operational and business systems.
Identity, devices, and infrastructure for districts and colleges managing thousands of users across many sites.
Student data warehouses, state reporting, and early warning analytics with privacy built in.
Independent technical leadership for agencies that need judgment more than they need staff.
Portals, integrations, and legacy modernization around utility billing, metering, and asset systems, with a firm boundary at control systems.
Modernizing in-house applications, building public-facing services, and delivering releases for agencies that never go offline.
Integration, portals, and legacy modernization for districts and colleges, built around student privacy, accessibility, and the academic calendar.
Small, supportable applications, integrations, and accessible public services for districts and authorities that have no developers on staff.
Cloud migration, networks, identity, and recovery for dispatch and records systems that have to stay available and stay within CJIS rules.
Cloud migration, site networks, identity, and recovery planning for utility business systems that sit alongside plant control systems.
Migrating and running infrastructure for agencies whose dispatch, fare, and roadside systems have no maintenance window.
Migration sequencing, landing zones, identity, and cost governance for state agencies moving large legacy portfolios under central IT standards.
Security assessments, compliance evidence, and Zero Trust planning for departments answering to both state enterprise standards and federal auditors.
Security programs for agencies that run signals, train control, fare payment, and public services without taking any of it offline.
Security assessments, compliance readiness, and Zero Trust work for companies whose government customers, regulators, and insurers set the security bar.
Data platforms, automated federal program reporting, and governed dashboards for state departments answering to funders, auditors, and the legislature.
Reconciling ridership, on-time performance, asset, and federal reporting data into one set of definitions everyone can use.
Board reporting, mandated filings, and GIS for single-purpose agencies that have plenty of data and no analyst on staff.
Integration, NG911 readiness, and field tools for municipal police and fire departments that share IT with the rest of city government.
Integration, NG911 data readiness, and reporting for independent fire districts and joint powers dispatch centers serving several member agencies.
Incident systems, control center situational awareness, and field applications for transit agencies running their own security operations.
Independent requirements, procurement, and oversight support for multi-department county system replacements that carry federal funding conditions.
Independent requirements, procurement, and oversight support for utilities replacing billing, asset management, and metering systems.
Independent requirements, procurement, and oversight support for districts and colleges replacing student information, finance, and learning systems.
Accessibility, security, and integration work on commercial software products that have to clear state and local government procurement review.
Requirements, architecture, procurement, and oversight support for agencies buying fare, scheduling, and traffic systems under federal rules.
Risk Management Framework support, NIST SP 800-171 readiness, and continuous monitoring design provided as a subcontractor to prime contract holders.
Data platforms, governance, and model documentation built to the standard an auditor or a government customer will ask a company to prove.
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