County IT seeks 6.4% bump to cover cybersecurity, M365 migration
The county's IT director asked for a 6.4% operational increase to pay for software‑as‑a‑service, cybersecurity monitoring (Arctic Wolf SIEM) and to finish multi‑factor authentication, saying the county now shares a single Microsoft 365 platform across offices.
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Eric Fletcher, director of IT for the board of commissioners, told the panel his department's request is driven by software and security costs and by the need to complete countywide multi‑factor authentication. "Our budget request this year is 6.4% over last year's operational budget," Fletcher said, and he listed rising maintenance and security subscriptions among the causes.
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