Municipalities get a grip on information through smart software – Managers Online

The digitization of government continues

April 13, 2015 – takes the attention to information in municipalities sharply. Yet there is a lack of time, knowledge and money is often difficult to turn that awareness into clear policy and implementation. Companies jumping into this problem by providing relevant knowledge and software solutions.

The digitization of government continues. And thus, the number of possibilities to make abuse of it. Thus Municipality Lochem was recently hit by ransomware, a virus that hijacks digital computers and then ask ransom. Late last year came Municipality of The Hague same. “If municipalities do not have the information in order, which could result in reputation damage, consequential damage and political liability,” says Frank Voigt, information manager with years of experience within local authorities. On 10 February. The bill Hailing Data breaches approved by parliament. Breaches of information that lead to theft, loss or abuse must be reported to CBP and stakeholders. If a municipality is not here to satisfy she risks a fine of up to 450,000 euros.

Lack of decisiveness
 Through this kind of action is the subject ever higher on the management agenda. Moreover push organizations such as the VNG, the Information Security Department (IBD) and CBP theme with a plethora of information, regulations and directives, including the Baseline Municipalities (BIG). Yet many municipalities still lacking decisiveness to that consciousness to turn into policy, planning and implementation. In addition to the more than 300 security of the BIG are namely still separate directives and standards frameworks include the BRP, Travel Documents, DigiD and Suwinet. “It meet all these requirements will bring a lot of new and additional work with them. In terms of all the guidelines and standards framework should questionnaires be completed and performed self-evaluations. Many questionnaires and standards overlap, basically reps do double work,” says Voigt . It may happen that one ICT manager in a short period of five times the same question is referred by different controllers for different standards lists.