Industry News: Cyber

NYC Tech Commissioner Left Atlanta Job Shortly Before Crippling Cyberattack

Written by Cybersecurity | Apr 24, 2019 4:13:41 PM

2019-04-11

Nypost:  City Hall’s bumbling tech czar previously held a similar job in Atlanta — which was crippled by a cyberattack shortly after he left for the Big Apple. Samir Saini, who’s enmeshed in a scandal over an entirely preventable crash of the city’s in-house wireless network, was Atlanta’s chief information officer when Mayor Bill de Blasio named him head of the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications in January 2018...

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