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U.S. Conference of Mayors Unanimously Approves Resolution on Data Protection and Data Center Resiliency Resolution, Sponsored by Henderson Mayor Debra March, Stresses National Enhanced Physical and Cyber #DataSecurity Measures #HENDERSON, Nev., June 21, 2018/ @prnewswire / -- The nation's mayors have unanimously approved a resolution sponsored by Henderson Mayor Debra March calling for sweeping improvements to how #privatebusinesses and governments protect #data from #cyberattacks, #physicalattacks, severe weather events, and other types of catastrophic #threats to data centers. Mayor March collaborated with #Nevadabased #datacenter developer Switch to create the #language for the resolution. The U.S. Conference of Mayor's (USCM) resolution, which was adopted on June 11at the organization's 86th annual meeting in #Boston , encourages prioritization of funding for data security measures, #federalsupport for local governments in that effort, and reinforcing that the federal government follow its own standards in protecting our nation's critical data center infrastructure. The U.S. Conference of Mayors Data Protection Resolution  passed unanimously and was supported by 12 other mayors who were co-sponsors including Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, Mesa, Ariz. Mayor John Giles, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms, Portland, Ore. Mayor Ted Wheeler, and SeattleMayor Jenny Durkan. "Every day we read headlines about private businesses, local #governments and even U.S. #navalship plans being compromised as a result of data vulnerabilities. As a nation, we must prioritize #investments in protecting our data from #humanerror , #maliciousattacks and a lack of resiliency," said Mayor March. "As the developers of the world's only Tier 5® Platinum data centers Switch was pleased to work with the mayors to help develop the policy of the resolution and we applaud Mayor March and her colleagues at the U.S. Conference of Mayors for taking such a strong stand on physical data center resiliency," said Switch EVP of Strategy Adam Kramer. "Unfortunately, many businesses and governments are unaware of the state of their data center resiliency until something goes very wrong.