The exterior of Saint John City Hall is pictured in this file photo. (Staff photo)
In November 2020, the City of Saint John’s IT infrastructure was hit by a significant cyber attack.
On Wednesday, the city’s finance committee discussed the cyberattack and the projected cost.
Back in March 202, the estimated cost was $3,266,518, which includes HST and tax rebates, but now it stands at $3,176,525.
“It’s a little lower because of the ability to leverage a lot of our internal talent to do some of the work that we originally would have to contract out,” said CIO and Acting Director of Corporate Performance, Stephanie Rackley-Roach.
“As well as taking a look at what’s in our maintenance and licensing agreements, and being able to leverage the vendor,” continued Roach.
City staff is also still projecting insurance will cover 85 per cent of the cost.
“Of course, that has to go through the process of submitting the package to our insurer, and that is expected that in full, and we will do it in a couple of phases by the end of Q2, and before the second anniversary to have everything submitted,” mentioned Roach.
Roach continued and brought up the core network was up and running in February 2021.
“Where we were adding users, and having them use the network, so our communications and security system was there to do that.”
Roach added the network was fully backed up at the end of March 2021.
“So, we have been operating with a full network for quite some time, however, some of the application restores are still ongoing, but we expect the majority of the major ones should be done at the end of this quarter, and all of them should be done in an operational capacity by the end of the 2 years after the cyber attack.”
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