Board renews Wasabi cloud storage contract amid cybersecurity questions from supervisors
Supervisors raised concerns about storing county data off‑site and in other states, but IT Director Jennifer said the Wasabi Storage trial met performance and pricing expectations and that the county assesses vendor cybersecurity history before contracting; the board approved a three‑year renewal.
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Supervisor Locks said he had reservations about keeping private county information on servers outside county boundaries and specifically cited concern about storage being located in Colorado. "I just worry about the safety of the data," Locks said, asking whether cloud storage might be more hackable than on‑premises servers. IT Director Jennifer responded that the Wasabi agreement is a renewal of a trial used last year; the storage is used for backups and not all county data, and the county evaluates vendors' cybersecurity history and contractual protections before proceeding. "We were very impressed with their storage, their speed, and their pricing," Jennifer said of Wasabi.
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