FROM AWARENESS TO READINESSRequest
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conversation.
Bring a local incident or a practical question. We’ll start with the services your community relies on and the controls you already have.
WM
Wes MerriottBayou Breach curator
Wes works in local-government sales at Fortinet. Bayou Breach is his personal awareness project. A conversation does not require a purchase or commit your agency to a project.
DIRECT EMAILwmerriott@fortinet.com- Understand what a local incident actually establishes.
- Review questions for your IT team or managed provider.
- Discuss how current tools can work together.
- Suggest a correction, source or missing Louisiana incident.
What makes a useful first conversation?
- Name the service. Dispatch, records, payments, utilities or another priority.
- Describe the question. Access, containment, recovery, visibility or sensitive data.
- Bring what you already know. Existing tools, ownership and constraints, without sending confidential details.
Active incident?
Use your established response team, insurer and law-enforcement channels. This mailbox is not an emergency service, is not continuously monitored and does not promise a response time.