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IT manager seeks legislation to migrate city to Microsoft 365 Government G3 to boost cybersecurity
Summary
IT manager told council the city plans to migrate to Microsoft 365 Government G3 to raise cybersecurity protections after regional ransomware incidents; staff said the migration is budgeted, will be phased over about two months and will include an email-domain change and staff training.
City IT staff asked council to prepare legislation to migrate city email and systems to Microsoft 365 Government G3, saying the upgrade will raise the city's cybersecurity posture and help guard against ransomware and other cyberattacks.
Todd Wallace, the city’s IT manager, said the upgrade is a budgeted item and that the city has been planning the move “basically ever since Huber Heights had their little incident.” He described the package as a government-tier licensing level that “puts us up into a government version of it, which is about 7 levels up,” and said the change provides stronger monitoring, email protection and anti-spam features.
Wallace said the…
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