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Panel debates whether cybersecurity contract costs belong in NDIT or higher‑education budget
Summary
House Appropriations members and NDIT officials debated whether contractual cybersecurity increases should be booked in the Information Technology Department budget or moved into the North Dakota University System budget, seeking to avoid double accounting and to make costs clearer for future appropriations.
Representative Bosch and officials from the state Information Technology Department pressed members of the House Appropriations Government Operations Division to decide where to place roughly $4.1 million in cybersecurity contract increases: in NDIT’s budget or the North Dakota University System (NDUS) budget.
Committee members followed testimony from Greg Hoffman, deputy chief information officer for the state Information Technology Department, and Chris Gergen, interim chief information security officer for NDIT, who said NDIT and NDUS share the same cybersecurity tool sets and that the expense currently appears in both places.
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