LA County Cyber Resilience & Risk Management

2023 NACo Achievement Award Winner

Los Angeles County, Calif., CA

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About the Program

Category: Information Technology (Best in Category)

Year: 2023

County of Los Angeles Information Security’s Vision, Mission and Philosophy are (https://ceo.lacounty.gov/cio-security-guiding-principles/): Vision: Establish Los Angeles County as a model and national leader in the protection of information assets. Mission: Promote and facilitate effective information security and privacy. Philosophy: Ensure a high degree of information security and privacy in the daily activities of Los Angeles County departments, agencies, commissions, workforce members and partners (private and public) while supporting their business operations. These statements along with a series of guiding principles and architecture form the foundation for all aspects and decisions of the Information Security program. This works well due to a standardized approach tied directly to enterprise security governance. Information Security exists to support the business in achieving its objectives. As such, we support all County priorities by ensuring that all existing and new implementations of information technology systems and initiatives have the appropriate controls to, ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information, data and infrastructure.