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Barnstable County IT director outlines cloud migration, cybersecurity and AI pilots
Summary
IT Director Billy Travis updated commissioners on the county's regional IT services, documenting a multi-year shift to cloud-hosted systems, recent cybersecurity work, a 2025 cyber incident in Bourne, and pilot projects for managed services and AI tools.
Billy Travis, Barnstable County IT director, briefed commissioners on the department’s multi-year work to centralize regional services, move systems to the cloud and strengthen cybersecurity. "Going the cloud route ... lets you do things without people having to do them," Travis said while describing how cloud services enable efficiency and security pilots.
Travis summarized a timeline of milestones: the county IT department formation in 2005, virtualization in 2010, phased cloud migrations and telephone-system replacements through the 2010s, a 2025 cyber incident that accelerated a Bourne migration, deployment of multi-factor authentication and an ongoing regional cybersecurity training program. He said the department now provides…
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