“Cities need to be looking at the root of the problem rather than dealing with threats such as ransomware as one-off situations,” Wendi Whitmore, vice president of X-Force threat intelligence at IBM Security, said in a statement announcing the trainings, held at its headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. “Taking preventative steps to strengthen cybersecurity in cities now, can help them prepare for, and protect against, issues in the future. These attacks have reached the point where governments need to place an importance on them and develop response plans, similar to how they handle state of emergencies.”