Cheshire East Council is to stage exercises to plan for major cyber attacks in future.
A council must be prepared for cyber attacks and should get ready to "wargame" hypothetical scenarios, a councillor has said.
The Dane Valley councillor said it would be "nigh on impossible" to operate a council without computers and telephones.'Back-up policy' Josie Griffiths, head of audit and risk management, said wargaming exercises to test or improve "tactical expertise" were now scheduled across the organisation.
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