Resilient civic infrastructure for when it matters most.
Atlanta: $17M. Baltimore: $18M. Dallas: $8.5M. Three cities. Three ransomware attacks. Three times, centralized IT took down 911 dispatch, utility billing, and citizen services for weeks. Decentralize to the municipal edge — so a breach in City Hall doesn't paralyze fire stations.The Municipal Ransomware Epidemic
Centralized city IT is the #1 target. When it falls, everything — from 911 to water billing — goes with it.
City of Atlanta (March 2018)
SamSam ransomware crippled centralized city IT. Utility payments, parking, and court services knocked offline. Employees reverted to pen and paper for weeks. Police dashcam footage permanently destroyed. Total cost: $17 million — for a $51,000 ransom they refused to pay.
City of Baltimore (May 2019)
RobbinHood ransomware exploited outdated, centralized systems. City email, phone lines, and online billing offline for months. Real estate transactions halted citywide. Employees used personal Gmail for official business. Total cost: $18.2 million.
City of Dallas (May 2023)
Royal ransomware group infiltrated systems a full month before encrypting. Police and Fire dispatch (CAD) systems disrupted. 1.169 TB of data exfiltrated. 30,000+ individuals' PII compromised including SSNs and health records. $8.5M budget for recovery plus $4M for new detection systems.
The 911 Fragility Crisis
90% of US emergency communication centers experienced at least one outage in the past year. Many still run on decades-old analog systems. The CrowdStrike July 2024 incident forced 911 dispatch centers across multiple states to revert to paper-based manual dispatch. NG911 modernization requires $15+ billion.
Decentralized Municipal Operations
Every fire station, utility plant, and satellite office runs its own autonomous edge node. If City Hall falls, your city keeps running.
Departmental Autonomy
Fire stations, utility plants, and satellite offices run their own edge node with independent SQLite databases. If City Hall's datacenter is compromised, local services continue 100% independently — no shared infrastructure to cascade through.
Ransomware Blast Containment
Isolated databases per department. A breach in the billing system can't cascade to police dispatch or water treatment. Each edge node is a self-contained blast radius — just like physical departments should be.
Zero-Dependency Emergency Backups
Dispatch dashboards deployed to edge run without central CAD servers. If the central system goes down — whether from ransomware or a CrowdStrike-style update — local dispatchers maintain full operational capability.
Immutable Citizen Portals
Published portals are static, pre-compiled bundles with zero server-side code execution surface for attackers. No dynamic runtime to exploit. No database injection points. Rollback to a clean version is instant.