Maricopa County Office of Enterprise Technology Information Security Scorecard

About the Program

Category: Information Technology (Best in Category)

Year: 2022

Maricopa County is the fourth most populous county in the United States and sees hundreds of thousands of daily attempts to breach data and systems. The County is comprised of over 13,000 employees across 9 elected offices and 47 appointed departments and sub-departments. Technology services are decentralized within the County with each elected office having autonomy to make their own decisions surrounding the selection and security of their assets. This makes the job of holistically securing the Enterprise that much more challenging. The InfoSec Scorecard is a means of ensuring that regardless of who is providing the security service, and the technology employed, departments are aware of the minimum of security requirements and can determine how to meet or exceed them within their own environments. This scorecard also promotes Infosec collaboration amongst departments that may have not done so in the past due to organizational structure constraints. Aligning each unique department’s business processes, needs, and technology at hand is a huge undertaking. The scorecard is a living document and tracks the progress of onboarding technologies that will be necessary for future protection as Maricopa County closes in on full National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) framework adoption.