Hey Tim Noonan

City of Atlanta

During the day I focus on issues involving information and in my free time I turn my attention to the community. With over thirty years of experience, I have seen it all from Y2K to AI. Checkout my Professional Experience page. In my free time I founded the 19th Ward Mutual Aid group. Providing support to the 19th Ward and beyond. Checkout my Volunteer Work page. Thanks for visiting.

CLIENT PROFILE

The City of Atlanta is the capital of the U.S. state of Georgia. Atlanta hosts the global headquarters of many household named corporations such as The Coca-Cola Company, The Home Depot, Delta Air Lines, Arby’s, AT&T Mobility, Georgia-Pacific, Chick-fil-A, Church’s Chicken, Dunkin Donuts, Norfolk Southern Railway, Mercedes-Benz USA, NAPA Auto Parts, Papa Johns, Porsche AG, Newell Brands, Rollins, Inc., Marble Slab Creamery, and UPS.

8th-Largest Economy in the Country and the 15th-Largest in the World
GDP of $385 billion
8,932 Full Time Employees Supporting Half a Million Residents
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CLIENT REQUEST

The City of Atlanta engaged with Cliff Dweller Consulting’s partner to design and implement a data analytics solution. By designing a federated system, this allowed ten nodes to analyze data from acros each agency from a single dashboard. Billions of files were forensically checked.

On March 22, 2018 at 5:40 AM, the Department of Atlanta Information Management first learned of outages and it was soon determined that the City of Atlanta was in the midst of a large scale ransomware attack. The virus used to attack the city was SamSam Ransomware.

  • Detection and Analysis
    • Isolating infected systems
    • Power down devices and disconnect from the network
    • Triage impacted systems and prepare them for restoration
    • Determine threat detection and prevention systems
  • Reporting and Notification
  • Containment and Eradication
  • Recovery and Post Incident Activity