WESTLAKE, Ohio -- The City of Westlake is doubling its cybersecurity insurance coverage and will adopt a formal cybersecurity program by Jan. 1 to meet new state requirements.

The city plans to increase its insurance coverage and formalize policies because of recent data breaches involving municipalities across the nation -- including a recent attempt to access Westlake’s computers.

“There has been, as you all know, a spate of cyberattacks on municipalities and all kinds of governments,” city Finance Director Prashant Shah said during a City Council Ad Hoc IT Committee meeting Sept. 15 .

“In fact, there was an attempt to break into our firewall last week or maybe 10 days ago,” Shah said then.

Discussion of cybersecurity issues was timely because Westlake was in the process of renewin

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