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San Francisco creates ESF 18 to coordinate citywide cybersecurity response
Summary
The city introduced Emergency Support Function 18 (ESF 18) to coordinate cybersecurity threat response and department-level COOP cyber appendices; the Department of Technology and emergency-management staff said departments will exercise ransomware and cloud-breach scenarios to test plans.
San Francisco officials announced a new Emergency Support Function, ESF 18, to coordinate the city's response to cybersecurity incidents alongside traditional physical disasters.
Michael Maxman of the Department of Technology told the council that cybersecurity "is the start of the work" and said the…
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