County IT schedules network outage for maintenance after penetration test identified vulnerabilities

Aug 25, 2026

County IT announced an estimated eight-hour outage Aug. 27 to perform maintenance on a data storage array and described results of an external penetration test that found seven vulnerabilities; presenters said all were addressed and external security later tested clean.

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County IT staff notified the Commissioners Court Aug. 25 of a planned network outage on Aug. 27 to perform security maintenance on a data storage array, estimating roughly eight hours of downtime and promising updates when services are restored.

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