MISSION > Our Mission is to share in the responsibility of securing the critical cyber infrastructure within our local communities to better preserve the integrity, privacy, and sovereignty of all connected systems that we and our public services rely upon. ASCEND > Our partnership goal is to approach cyber security problems using a collective defense model that leverages battle-tested methods and defense-grade solutions with the most experienced workforce within the service region. DEFEND > Our partner enablement goal is to provide our partners with holistic, innovative, and effective cyber security solutions to force multiply their ongoing efforts to protect, defend, respond, and educate on cyber defense risk.