ALL NEW YORK COUNTIES, TRIBAL AND TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS AS WELL AS UNITS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Fiscal Year 2017 Cyber Security Grant Program seeks applications for up to $50,000 in federal State Homeland Security Program funding made available by the NYS Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (DHSES). The purpose of this grant opportunity is to aid New York State’s local jurisdictions in enhancing their ability to protect, identify, respond to and recover from cyber incidents, through the funding of eligible planning, equipment, training and exercises costs.

All New York counties, tribal and territorial governments as well as units of local government to include cities, towns, and/or villages would be eligible to apply for this grant opportunity. The five objectives of this grant are to: 1) To provide New York State local jurisdictions with the resources and equipment necessary to prevent disruption of the confidentiality, integrity and availability of their information systems 2) To assess their cyber security risk, identify vulnerabilities and determine capability gaps with the focus of allocating resources 3) To ensure that local jurisdictions are equipped with the knowledge and resources necessary for providing cyber security awareness training to their staff in support of good cyber hygiene at the user level 4) To develop actionable cyber security plans that focus on response and immediate remediation to a cyber incident and finally, 5) To encourage the participation in established cyber security support networks and utilization of the vast number of resources available to local governments.

Applications will be accepted through 5:00PM on August 7, 2018 through the New York State’s Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services’ (NYS-DHSES) electronic grants management system (E-Grants). For the Request for Applications (RFA) please visit the DHSES website at: http://www.dhses.ny.gov/grants or DHSES’s Grant Hotline at (866) 837-9133